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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Can urine help power the world?
When it comes to our waste, we tend to treat it and then release it into an already overburdened environment. The Urinotron proves we can harness our pee as a power source. Michael Mackenzie reports.
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Alex Hawke deflects Tuvalu's calls for Australian climate action
The Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Alex Hawke, responds to the Tuvalu Prime Minister's calls for Australia to take stronger climate change action.
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Maritime Museum to unveil new lightweight, flexible solar panels
Australia's largest installation of a new generation of solar panels developed by the world's first solar billionaire will be unveiled today at the National Maritime Museum in Sydney.
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Tuvalu PM warns Australia 'we must act urgently' on climate change
No excuses on climate change — that's the warning from the Pacific nation of Tuvalu after the Morrison Government promised aid money to help the region cope with climate change.
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Why Kalimantan will be home to the next Indonesian capital
Jakarta has been facing a lot of problems, it's sinking, over-populated and prone to earthquakes. The Indonesian President Joko Widodo says the capital will be moved to Kalimantan and that it could happen as early as 2024.
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Does the PM's $20 million to bolster domestic plastic recycling go far enough?
It follows COAG commitments to stop sending plastic waste overseas, after countries refused to take it.
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Scott Morrison will pledge $500m for regional climate resilience at the Pacific Islands Forum on Wednesday
Can you throw foreign aid money at a problem like climate change, if you're not going to do everything you can to cut down on your domestic carbon emissions?
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How clean is the air you breathe?
Doctors are calling for greater action to combat air pollution as people living around freight routes say their health is being affected.
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Govt announces $20m funding to grow domestic recycling industry
The Minister for Science, Industry and Technology discusses Australia's current recycling crisis and the Morrison Government's strategy to deal with it.
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Experts tackle food security problem in the face of climate change
"Numbers seem to indicate that in India and across the world, the water used in agriculture is at least double, if not three times what is needed," says Dr Ajay Mathur.
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Country Drive: Grain imports, NT privacy breach & climate consequences for Aussie beef producers
The Federal Government has approved more grain imports from Canada, as Australian growers continue to struggle with the drought;
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Regional leaders warn Australia of climate threat ahead of Pacific Islands Forum
Prime Minister Scott Morrison will attend the forum in Tuvalu this week.
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Knitted jumpers can help Little Penguins survive oil spills
Swallowing oil can kill the Little Penguin but remarkably, specially knitted jumpers can help them survive an oil spill.
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Will 'flight shame' stop jet-setting Australians taking overseas trips?
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has warned against flight shaming and eco taxes saying "we don't want to go back to the 1920s and not have air travel."
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Coordination required to build a hydrogen-based economy
Conditions are now in place making hydrogen an attractive replacement for fossil fuels.
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Reducing emissions won’t be enough to limit rising temperatures
The oceans are becoming more acidic as they absorb carbon dioxide. In addition to reducing emissions, it is now thought we will need to develop technologies to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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The Rescue Project presents stories of land repair
Stories are read aloud by their authors and listeners are transported to the author’s cherished place. We hear a story by Kathryne Read, On Planting a Forest.
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Bees worldwide under serious threat
Bees are dying due to extreme heat, longer and widespread bushfires, and pollution.
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River swimming, plus sitting and diabetes
If a river is clean enough to swim in, it's healthy in all sorts of ways.
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Rural News Highlights 10 August
New dam funding for Stanthorpe Queensland as the region approaches zero water and private scheme to fund soil carbon projects on farms
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