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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Museums in the age of climate change
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Miranda Massie left her job as a lawyer to create a museum of climate change.
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Toasting an urban wine project and worms a wriggling success
This week we toast an urban wine project; Carol Cosentino opens her home and heart to injured wildlife; we go behind the scenes at a commercial worm farm; and try our luck in a stockman's challenge.
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Hope for endangered Honeyeater
A critically endangered Regent Honeyeater has given researchers hope that the species can be saved.
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Creeping slime moulds hunt in Tasmania
They hunt for prey, look like modernist sculptures and have their very own kingdom on the tree of life: slime moulds are bizarre and beautiful. This episode is selected from the Off Track archive.
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Harvest markets
A small farmers market in the Tamar Valley in Tasmania is leading the war on waste, one plastic bag at a time.
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A Big Country July 15, 2017
This week we toast an urban wine project; Carol Cosentino opens her home and heart to injured wildlife; we go behind the scenes at a commercial worm farm; and try our luck in a stockman's challenge.
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Woolworths and Coles scrap single-use plastic bags
The supermarket giants have announced they'll phase out single-use bags over the next 12 months.
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Trillion tonne iceberg renews sea level concerns
For people in the Torres Strait, rising sea levels have long been a significant issue.
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States will go it alone on Clean Energy Target: Koutsantonis
With the Coalition divided and distracted over energy policy, the States say they'll push ahead with a Clean Energy Target.
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Trillion-tonne iceberg breaks off Antarctica
It's twice the size of Luxembourg and is not adrift in the Weddell Sea.
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Tensions rise over groundwater impacts of big coal & CSG
Should new mega mines and coal seam gas projects have a 'social licence' to extract groundwater?
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Janet Rice on Vehicle Emission Standards
Political furore has ensued over claims of a carbon tax on cars.
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Agriculture v Mining: a partial win for farmers on the Liverpool Plains
The New South Wales government will buy back a majority of the exploration license awarded to the controversial Shenhua Watermark coalmine.
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US 'hacked' but Australian politicians 'get' climate change: Gore
Most Australian politicians want to solve the climate crisis — but in America climate debate and democracy has been 'hacked' by big money, says Al Gore.
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Great Barrier Reef under threat despite avoiding UNESCO 'in-danger list'
The Federal Government welcomed UNESCO's decision to leave the Great Barrier Reef off the list.
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UN bans nuclear weapons
The UN has adopted a landmark treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons, described as "a historic event for humanity".
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The Wrap: SA battery, Bernardi and G20
'The Wrap' is RN Drive's summary of the biggest stories of the week, plus some you may have missed
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Australia's birds face uncertain future
Australia's birds face a number of threats, including habitat destruction and climate change.
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Animal rights groups criticise New Zealand's war against possums
A recent incident has got some animal rights groups fired up about this issue.
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Australia failing on biodiversity protection: report
Despite massive growth in reserve lands, more than one quarter of Australia's ecosystems and biodiversity remain unprotected, according to a new report.
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