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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Phase in new carbon pollution standards for cars two years early: ClimateWorks
Tough new emission standards proposed for Australia's light passenger vehicle fleet will save billions in fuel costs and cut carbon pollution, says ClimateWorks Australia.
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Rising temperatures in parts of Asia could make going outside impossible in future
It's comforting to think of climate change as a far away danger.
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Salmon farming will start in Tassie's Okehampton Bay before the end of the month: Tassal
Tasmanian salmon farmer Tassal is promising to create a 'flagship site' for aquaculture in Tasmania's Okehampton Bay, after getting the Federal go ahead for the project yesterday.
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Funding & direction of Australian climate science research needs an overhaul: Academy of Science
Eighty new climate research positions are needed to better predict future climate variability and risk, says the Australian Academy of Science.
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Cruising into the future - and the true cost of living digital
The cruise line industry is booming. The bigger the boats, the larger the profits. But what, if any, are the engineering and environmental limits?
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Reducing transport emissions
The uptake of renewables and gas is slowly reducing electricity CO2 emissions — but transport emissions are on the rise, and negating some of those improvements.
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'Bloody Disgusting' - reactions to corruption, water theft from Murray Darling
Faith in the plan eroded by this week's Four Corners investigation
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Any louder and that frog will explode [part one]
Murray Littlejohn first recorded the Moaning Frogs of WA on a device made from a gramophone mechanism in the early 1950s.
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Country Breakfast Features Sat 29th July
Why is London is trying to become an urban forest? And scandi cool breathes new life into fine wool.
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International Tiger Day
Australians are being urged to shop and holiday with the world's endangered tigers in mind.
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'We have got a problem with compliance': Glyde
MDBA chief Phillip Glyde says it's not an acceptable state of affairs if 'the rules of racing' are not being followed and the States are gaming the Murray Darling Basin Plan.
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300 billion litres of Murray Darling water 'lost' to infrastructure upgrades
Leading water scientist Dr. John Williams says around $3bn of taxpayer money which has been paid out to improve water efficiency in the Murray Darling has dramatically reduced environmental water flows in the Basin.
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How to make spaghetti bolognese
Social researcher and author Rebecca Huntley uses the recipe for this very popular and accessible dish to highlight the varied threats to our future food supply from global climate change.
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Promising results from new Taiwanese energy technologies
As the US withdraws from the Paris Climate Agreement, and reduces funds for research, other countries are poised to take the lead.
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Eruption, explosion and river erosion
Australian rocks bear the scars of the some most dramatic events in the history of planet earth. Prepare yourself for the boom!
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Country Breakfast Features Saturday 22 July
This week we visit the world's largest Fairtrade program; and how would you like to live in a silo house?
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Arctic sea ice melt helps drive expanded territorial claims
Over the past 15 years, the rapid melt of Arctic sea ice has made seabed mapping easier for new territorial claims and fossil fuel exploitation.
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65,000 year date for earliest human occupation of Australia
Researchers describe the Madjedbebe rock shelter in Arnhem Land as one of the most significant cultural and archaeological sites in the world — but it's unprotected in a mining lease.
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Cabinet support for new Home Affairs department
Federal Cabinet has approved the biggest overhaul of Australia's national security architecture in 40 years.
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Coral, coal and climate change
Anna Krien on the dysfunctional politics of climate change policy, the contested economics of coal mining, and the 'energy wars'.
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