ABC Environment
The Science Show and Ockham's Razor have always brought us commentary on the environment and climate change. Now Off Track takes us out to feel the breeze. Special features can also be found on Background Briefing and our other current affairs regulars: Breakfast, RN Drive, and the weekend Extras.
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China's Solar Valley - 'Solar everything'
China is taking up renewable energy faster than any other country. It’s all on display in the Solar Valley.
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Flying for your life: The journey begins
Millions of shorebirds fly between Australasia and the Arctic every year. They navigate over oceans using stars and magnetic fields, they sleep with half their brain at a time while they're on the wing.
But for some of them, this will be the last flight.
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In Season: Winter
As Winter bites in the south, Tim Entwisle and Matthew Crawford investigate a late start to the north's dry season, birds that spread fire, a collision of accountancy and botany, and a warmer future for our only Winter-hibernating marsupial.
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Rural Reporter
This week fabulous fungi in the Tarkine wilderness; Fish Creek hosts a tea cosy festival; Nathan Griggs makes a monster whip for a world record attempt; and success for an indigenous working scheme in the Kimberley.
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Can Aboriginal Australians save the world?
Aboriginal doctor and researcher Prof Alex Brown has some interesting ideas about how we can harness the wisdom of the longest continuous surviving culture in the world.
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Pandas to be taken off the endangered list
Chinese officials say the population numbers for wild giant pandas are out of the danger zone, but international conservation experts aren't so sure.
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Protecting Antarctica's environment for 25 years
In 1991, Australia and other Antarctic Treaty Parties signed The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty. It provides for the comprehensive protection of Antarctica's environment and bans mining and oil drilling.
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Melbourne's 'Nature Play' voted Australia's best playground
After a nation-wide search by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, Australia's best playground has been announced, and the winner is Nature Play in inner-city Melbourne's Royal Park.
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Environmental manifestos
Are environmental manifestos useful in bringing about change in the online age?
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The Simpson Desert drive
Tips for a journey through the red centre of Australia
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Butler questioned over Labor's $500m Great Barrier Reef plan
But how much of the opposition's reef package is new money, where is it coming from, and what difference will it make?
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The inconvenient scientists
A third of the CSIRO's climate scientists have been sacked. It's part of a radical change in direction at Australia's premier science organisation. Will this leave Australia vulnerable to climate change? Paddy Manning investigates.
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Tracing Western Australia's pest starlings
Western Australia is being invaded by starlings from many sources in the east, not just one in bordering South Australia.
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Maths used to estimate populations of elusive plants and animals
Kerrie Mengersen describes her use of mathematics in estimating populations of jaguars and other rare animals in Peru and elsewhere.
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Big solar - Australian sunlight could power the planet
Saudi Arabia got rich selling oil. Australia could do the same exporting power from vast fields of solar panels.
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How to trap a platypus
How to trap a platypus
..with wildlife ecologist, Josh Griffiths.
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How to trap a platypus segment
..with wildlife ecologist, Josh Griffiths.
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The Simpson Desert drive
Tips for a journey through the red centre of Australia
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Rural Reporter May 28, 2016
This week baiting for foxes in the Burrup Peninsula; we fly in to Tibooburra for a flying doctor clinic; meet a cute whip-wielding toddler; and go behind the chutes for the poddy calf ride at Kununurra.
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Australia's most sustainable street
New houses are being built on Victoria's Bass Coast which will have energy bills as low $500 per dwelling, or up to 85% less than an average Australian street of the same size.
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