SOUTH AUSTRALIA
A campaign has reached Australia, with the founder, US environmentalist Bill McKibben, on a tour trying to convince community groups, universities and churches to stop investing in fossil fuel companies.
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A new industry push to have seismic testing recognised as a threat to marine environments demonstrates the need to protect Kangaroo Island’s unique wildlife from oil and gas exploration, says SA Australian Greens Senator Penny Wright.
Accusations of cover-ups and misrepresentations have emerged on both sides of the debate about oil exploration off the west of Kangaroo Island.
A theory that suggests banned aerosol gases are to blame for global warming, not carbon dioxide, has been questioned by climate scientists.
Some pastoralists in South Australia's north are reporting drought breaking rains and the best start to winter for several decades.
South Australian irrigators will receive their full allocation of water in 2012/13. Despite the dry conditions experienced over the past six months, South Australia will get the full River Murray Entitlement Flow of 1850 gigalitres.
A Government taskforce says an increase in water temperatures, a harmful algal bloom and a virus resulted in a mass fish death and also dolphin deaths in local waters.
Recreational fishers will work with the South Australian Government on a survey to see whether catfish numbers in the River Murray have recovered.
Coles has created a social media controversy by running a campaign for the lobby group Animals Australia.
Conservationists are raising concerns about the Government's handling of a 240,000 litre oil spill in the state's south-west. The oil leaked from a Santos project in the Cooper Basin, near the floodplains that feed Lake Eyre.
A BIKE trail through nine of Mitcham's reserves will result in tourism and health benefits, local cyclists and the CEO of BikeSA say.
Measures have been taken to support native fish numbers in the wetlands near the River Torrens outlet in Adelaide's western suburbs.
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