SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Zoos SA is making plans to close Warrawong sanctuary in the Adelaide hills at the end of the month. In an email to Zoos SA members, the organisation says it is unable to get a sustainable return from its investment in the property at Mylor.
A report released by the South Australian Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has put to rest a common myth about wind farms. Wind farms are said to create dangerous levels of infrasound, a sound too low for humans to hear, that can be harmful to people who live near wind turbines.
Cracked banks along parts of Third and Fourth creeks pose a risk to roads and properties, a Campbelltown Council report has found.
The Weed Management Society of South Australia is hosting a seminar event on herbicide resistance and weed management featuring Dr Jason Norsworthy from the University of Arkansas and Dr Christopher Preston from the University of Adelaide’s Waite Campus.
Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has called for community groups across Australia to make an application for Government investment in urban rivers and waterways. Applications will open shortly.
A look at feral animals in australia and the infamous dingo fence.
Orcas and sperm whales are in big trouble if the oil industry cranks up in Australia's South West.
As farmers tally the costs from fires across parts of Australia, dedicated wildlife volunteers are caring for animals caught in the blaze.
The Global Crop Diversity Trust and the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research Consortium will spend $109 million over five years on seedbank management.
Rising gas prices, the pitched battle over CSG between farmers and miners, the US threat to LNG’s$13.2 billion export bonanza – are all set to spill over into the Federal election campaign. The Greens and Bob Katter are looking to capitalise.
A team of Australian scientists has developed a powerful microscope using the laws of quantum mechanics to probe the inner workings of living cells.
The ‘450 gigalitre Bill’ introduced to the Senate today is an essential piece of the legislative package to start returning the Murray-Darling Basin to health, the Australian Conservation Foundation said today.
A rare and threatened plant species has been found near Melrose in the lower Flinders Ranges. Ecologist Jean Turner said the spiny daisy was now known to be at just six sites, all in South Australia.
Mr. Juicy the Wombat was rescued in September and in a sad state. He was one of the lucky ones but there are many more out there still in trouble. His after picture shows how well he is recovering.
Goats that are betraying their own herds are being used as a natural form of pest management in South Australia's Mallee, north-east of Adelaide.
The Weed Management Society of South Australia is hosting a seminar event on herbicide resistance and weed management featuring Dr Jason Norsworthy from the University of Arkansas and Dr Christopher Preston from the University of Adelaide’s Waite Campus.
AUSTRALIA
Police have arrested one indigenous elder and another Githabul traditional owner at the Doubtful Creek blockade of Metgasco coal seam gas operations near Kyogle. There is a massive show of police force at the site.
Police have arrested one indigenous elder and another Githabul traditional owner at the Doubtful Creek blockade of Metgasco coal seam gas operations near Kyogle. There is a massive show of police force at the site.
The Greens leader Christine Milne will try to force the Government to reveal how much mining tax revenue it's raised. Labor refuses to release any figures, citing advice from the Tax Office that privacy rules prevent even the Treasurer from knowing the details.
Hydro Tasmania has signed a deal with a Chinese energy company to finance the Musselroe wind farm in northern Tasmania.
It has been revealed signatories to Tasmania's forest peace deal were kept in the dark about the final size of a Wilderness World Heritage Area nomination.
There is a push for a Senate inquiry into the impacts of air quality on health across Australia, to be brought to the Hunter.
Outspoken carbon tax critic John Berry has welcomed $4.4 million in federal government funding to help the multinational company he represents slash greenhouse gas emissions.
A resident of South Yaamba, near Rockhampton in central Queensland, has reported seeing hundreds of dead fish in the Fitzroy River.
A groundwater exploration company says it is aware of nine potential cases of gas seepage on the Western Darling Downs in southern Queensland.
It has been confirmed at least four endangered wallabies, from a colony in the Warrumbungle National Park in the New South Wales north west, have survived a devastating bushfire.
There is a new call for pet cats to be confined to property boundaries, after a university researcher captured video showing a cat attacking a southern brown bandicoot.
Central Highlands Water says it would be inappropriate to use the Goldfields Superpipe to top up the Moorabool River.
North Queensland scientists have found a species of crab has been slowing down a coral disease affecting the Great Barrier Reef.
The City of Greater Geraldton says there has been a drop in the number of reports of illegal off-road driving after a joint-agency operation.
About 1,700 feral camels have been culled during an aerial shoot on Curtin Springs Station, about 450 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs.
Sand trapping protects erosion hot-spot.
Everyone one loves a good fishing story but it's getting harder to land a large fish or boast about wrestling huge catches into the tinnie.
Kangaroo rescued by 2 Irish nationals near Bungunya who spotted just his head sticking out of flood waters on the Barwon Hwy.
Two projects appeared on the carbon farming offsets registry. That's only two out of 22, but two all the same. So why are there so few tree-planting projects?
A contingent of Qaecologists have just returned from a fortnight in sunny Brisbane, attending the first ever Student Conference for Conservation Science to be held in Australia.
The musician famous for the song Cows With Guns will head to Western Australia's Kimberley region to pen lyrics about cane toads.
Australia is so close to creating the world's largest network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) around our coastline. Add YOUR name to stop our marine protection getting watered down!
A new publication by J Lindley McKay called FRILLNECK! - a detailed examination of the Frill-necked Lizard.
Nominations for the Prime Minister’s Environmentalist of the Year and Young Environmentalist of the Year awards open today.
Former US vice-president and climate change activist Al Gore has dismissed the Opposition's climate change policy, but praised the Australian Government as a world leader for its climate action.
After years of environmental campaigns and negotiations, the paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper decides to end its operations in Indonesia’s natural rainforest.
The Vatican has condemned elephant poaching for ivory and pledged three steps to help in the battle to save the world's elephants.
India and Nepal begin Royal Bengal tiger census.
New deep sea fish species found off NZ.
Recently released in Australia, Oxijet is a shower nozzle that creates air bubbles that make your shower feel amazing, while at the same time cutting your water use by up to half.
Broome residents Robin Strauss, Theresa De Biasi and Nikki Albert have more in common than they probably realise - all have had extremely close encounters with lightning and lived to tell the tale.
View the winning art and photography from the 2013 WetlandCare Australia competition.
INTERNATIONAL
Smog from China is drifting over parts of Japan, triggering health warnings for the young and sick.
Smog from China is drifting over parts of Japan, triggering health warnings for the young and sick.
NASA warns solar flares from 'huge space storm' will cause devastation.
Barcodes are being developed in the United States that will allow consumers to use mobile phones to find out more about how their food is being produced.
Dutch researchers have found a new way to utilise mobile phone networks: measuring rainfall. They're hoping the technology can be used to fill gaps in countries where radar and rain gauges are too costly.
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