SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Primary Industries has concluded a fish die-off on Eyre Peninsula was likely to have resulted from unusual weather.
Southern Elephant Seal Rescued
Today Patrick from BZE, Philippa from 100percent and Dan from AYCC presented to the select enquiry on solar thermal in state parliament.
Balancing environmental protection with tourism and commercial activities can be a difficult task. The recently-approved Kangaroo Island Fly Neighbourly Advice (FNA) aims to achieve a balance between aviation activities and environmental and conservation interests.
As the weather starts to cool down, and it is becoming darker earlier in the evening, tours of the Arid Recovery Reserve will begin again for the year.
Parks Week ends today with a salute to the Friends of Belair National Park. Roll up your sleeves and pitch in on their next working bee on Tue Mar 12
The Northern Territory Environment Centre is calling on federal politicians to consider stronger laws on coal seam and shoal gas mining.
Some said extra dams were the answer. Others said water shouldn't be given away too freely to mining companies. These were just two of the ideas raised this week at an open forum on the future of water in Mount Isa.
Australia's only freshwater research centre focussed on the Murray Darling basin will close if it doesn't get ongoing funding from State and Federal Governments.
Supporters of the bilby are vowing to keep fighting in the wake of the deaths of scores of the threatened marsupials and serious charity funding woes.
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) says divers have killed more than 60,000 coral-eating starfish in less than eight months.
Around 10,000 signatures have been collected by the National Parks Association in an effort to reverse the NSW Government's decision to allow hunting in parks as part of a pest eradication program.
Scientists from the University of Western Australia say they have been surprised by the impact of Cyclone Rusty on the sea off the Pilbara coast.
Rubber vine 'canaries' help eradicate weed
Kathryn Hansen is a 35-year-old, stay-at-home mum from Palmerston in the Northern Territory ... and she farms flies.
Earth is on track to becoming the hottest it has been at any time in the past 11.3 millennia, a period spanning the history of human civilisation, a new study says.
An energy group working to revitalise the coconut industry in the Federated States of Micronesia says it could have far reaching implications for the rest of the Pacific region.
A controversial super trawler docked at Port Lincoln since September has set sail. Legislation was announced in September to ban the ship from fishing in Australia for two years while more scientific work is completed.
The South Australian Murray-Darling Basin Natural Resources Management (SA MDB NRM) Board has sponsored ten places for dryland Mallee farmers to attend Managing Farms in a Changing Climate Conference.
Invasive weeds and overgrazing are being blamed for a rising number of sick and malnourished southern hairy-nosed wombats in the Murraylands region of eastern South Australia.
Out on our southern beaches this long, hot weekend? Flag your support for Hooded Plovers by reporting sightings!
Adelaide Activist Skillshare 2013
A suspicious bushfire has ended an epic tree sit-in in a remote southern Tasmanian forest. Miranda Gibson spent 457 days living up a tree in protest at the logging of old growth forests.
Green groups say the Queensland Government's decision to re-open state forests to logging is a devastating blow for the environment but the timber industry is backing the decision.
Drew Hutton of Lock the Gate launches 'Call to Country'
The battle over coal seam gas mining has reached Victoria. The industry there has just started to explore. Victorian landholders are following farmers in New South Wales and Queensland and starting to protest against any moves to explore and mine coal seam gas.
AUSTRALIA
To commemorate 2 years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster, people directly affected will visit Australia (Melbourne) TODAY to share their stories of radiation and resilience and see where uranium is mined and exported to Japan. Speakers:Akira Kawasaki, Peace Boat Organisation, Tokyo Hasegawa Kenichi, a farmer from the Iitate Village, Fukushima Tomohiro Matsuoka, Japanese for Peace, Melbourne
Recent news the State Government intends to allow logging in two million hectares of "protected" area is one of several recent decisions to dismay people who love Queensland's natural environment.
Coal seam gas (CSG) wells in Queensland’s Darling Downs are leaking at a greater rate than first thought, potentially proving to farmers, businesses and homeowners that their fears have been justified.
The federal independent MP Tony Windsor says politicians should be considering a move straight from a carbon tax to an emissions trading scheme as soon as possible.
NSW Environment Minister Robyn Parker has not met the state's climate change council - a group set up to advise the government - for more than a year, despite repeated pleas during the recent heatwaves and floods.
Allowing the Lower Hunter's air quality to deteriorate would expose the entire community to an unacceptable health risk that would cost the health system millions of dollars extra each year, a Newcastle doctor warned on Thursday night.
"If turtles are getting sick and if they are dying, then we know there is something seriously wrong with the water... Turtles are suffering because the Reef is suffering."
Apart from the weather, Tasmanians - and visitors to the state are talking about the higher than normal number of roadkill they are seeing.
Tasmania's Tarkine region has been ranked number one in a collection of the world's great wilderness areas by an American news channel.
Researchers have discovered the fossil of a giant sea predator that lived 360 million years ago off New South Wales.
An Australian winery is aiming to be the first in the world to produce enough carbon credits to cover its emissions.
Check out the judges award and people's choice award winner of the 30 second film category for the Love Food Film Comp
Postcards from Booderee
INTERNATIONAL
Reynaldo - Rainforest Hero
The 16th CITES conference in Bangkok...Thailand is one of the hubs of the world's illegal wildlife trade, particularly ivory.
The Scariest Climate Change Graph Just Got Scarier
The potential risks and benefits of high volume hydraulic fracturing, also called “hydrofracking” or “fracking,” have been a source of ongoing debate among physicians, politicians, the oil and gas industry and the general public. The debate is about American self-sufficiency in energy supply, and issues surrounding the American economy, ecology and public health.
Tens of thousands of 'frenzied' sharks gather off coast of Sunshine State South Florida
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