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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UN climate negotiations wind up in Germany
The latest round of UN climate negotiations wind up in the German city of Bonn later today with 200 nations discussing the future of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
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Regulate land-clearing in Great Barrier Reef catchments - Queensland Labor
The Queensland election is just over a week away, with a sharp divide emerging between the major parties and Pauline Hanson's One Nation on key issues such as the future of renewable energy - and the building of new coal mines like Adani.
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Research Filter: Ross 128b, flooded cities and why doting grandparents might be detrimental to kids' health
RN Drive sifts fact from fiction with analysis of the week's science news.
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Controlling Indonesian peatland fires
The fires, which blanket much of south east Asia in dense smoke each year are lit deliberately to clear forest for palm oil plantations.
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Earworms from planet earth
What does your world sound like? We asked, and you sent us earworms from planet earth. Close your eyes and take a trip.
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Research Filter: Super coral, gene-corrected skin and MU69
RN Drive sifts fact from fiction from the week's science news.
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Australia's emissions rising as world 'flat-lines' - Climate Council report
To meet the goal of the Paris Climate Agreement to keep future warming 'well under two degrees, no new coal or gas resources should be opened up in Australia, says a new report from the Climate Council.
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Air pollution crisis in New Delhi
Doctors are calling New Delhi's air pollution levels a medical emergency.
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Sharks in trouble as new census starts in Indo-Pacific
Globally it's thought that shark populations and diversity are in decline, as scientists start the first systematic survey of sharks and rays in the Indo-Pacific.
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Our national parks need protection
The ability of national parks to protect our natural heritage is being eroded, Carolyn Pettigrew says.
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Tasmania is the roadkill capital of the world
Possum, tawny frogmouth, platypus, turtle, quoll, endangered devil and raven. No animal is immune to death on Tasmanian roads where 32 animals die every hour.
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Living with drought in Australia
Rebecca Jones went back in time to see how farmers dealt with drought in Australia.
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Scientists discover critically endangered new species of orangutan
There are fewer than 800 Tapanuli orangutan left in the wild.
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Trump statements on North Korea 'dangerous': former US Def. Secretary
The former US Secretary of Defence, William J. Perry says Donald Trump's statements may embolden North Korea to use nuclear weapons against the US.
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World 'very likely' heading for three degrees of warming by 2100 — UN report
Without "much stronger pledges" in 2020, the world is heading for at least three degrees of warming by 2100, according to the 2017 UN Emissions Gap report.
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'Curing Affluenza — how to buy less stuff and save the world'
Richard Denniss says it doesn't involve curbing economic growth or even abandoning materialism.
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Warming waters threaten kelp
The temperature of waters around Britain have increased by two degrees in just forty years. Kelp are slowing moving towards cooler waters with many now endangered.
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Hit the frog and toad
It was thought that cane toads couldn't survive, and certainly couldn't breed as far south as Sydney. That thought was spectacularly wrong.
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Young bush detectives look for clues and feeding poddy lambs
We sharpen up the knives for a home butchering session; country kids become super sleuths at a science camp; and Lyn Wearing hand-rears poddy lambs on Elabe Station.
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What if eco-friendly hybrid cars aren't that green?
A report backed by the Australian Automobile Association found some new cars were pumping out seven times the legal limits of some noxious emissions in to the atmosphere.
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