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.
Updated: 2 hours 42 min ago
Climate risk
A new report warns global warming will drive increasingly severe humanitarian crises, forced migration, political instability and conflict in the Asia-Pacific and world.
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Privately protected areas to help conserve environment
Research suggests the existing networks of protected areas — national parks, marine parks and the like — won't go far enough to conserve the planet's biodiversity.
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Unearthing rock art, and chicken couture for featherless chooks
Volunteers help unearth Aboriginal rock art in the Blue Mountains; English-born chef Tim Burn calls the outback town of Tibooburra home; and 'chicken couture' for a brood of featherless chooks.
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Two tiny bats and three beaked whales
What does a five gram microbat have in common with a four metre, dead, dense beaked whale? More than you might think.
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Would You Rent Your Clothes?
In Australia an estimated 85 per cent of our clothes end up in landfill and with the rise of fast fashion that figure growing fast.
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China's move away from coal
We take a measure of China's commitment to decarbonisation
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A Big Country June 17, 2017
Volunteers help unearth Aboriginal rock art in the Blue Mountains; English-born chef Tim Burn calls the outback town of Tibooburra home; and 'chicken couture' for a brood of featherless chooks.
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Consumers already paying a 'business as usual' energy tax: Carnegie
In remote Australia, India and 1000s of islands around the world, renewable energy micro-grids are already cheaper, cleaner and more reliable than new coal, says energy boss.
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Sinodinos: Business as usual on energy policy "unsustainable"
Will Australia have a clean energy target, or not? That's the question the Government is currently grappling with.
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NAB keen to value 'natural capital'
Paying farmers to produce environmental goods like healthy soils and clean rivers. It's not a new idea, but there's renewed interest in countries like Britain as it heads towards Brexit and also in Australia.
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Will Australia adopt a Clean Energy Target?
The Minister for the Environment and Energy — Josh Frydenburg — says the Clean Energy Target will need bipartisan support and legislation.
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The greening of Singapore
The transformation of Singapore into a garden city.
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Federal Politics with Malcolm Farr
Federal MPs are making the journey back to Canberra for what promises to be an intense week of Parliament.
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Trees transform a farm landscape and Alyssa's a champion dog trialler
A tree planting project transforms a Bega Valley landscape; a young couple grinds out a living off just eight hectares; we turn unwanted fruit and veg into edible powder; and meet four-year-old dog trialler Alyssa Brown.
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Finkel report falls short of Paris commitment: Di Natale
Di Natale says the Finkel report gets Australia no where near the temperature target commitment made in Paris and provides a long term lifeline to coal and gas.
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Ominous signs for Larson C ice shelf
The fourth largest ice shelf in Antarctica, known as Larson C, has developed a crack 180km long. It is only a matter of time before a giant iceberg peels away and floats free in the Antarctic circumpolar current.
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Vagrant, immigrant, stopover, stay
Sure, seabirds might've been flying past, but how did tiny forest birds make it all the way to Lord Howe Island in the middle of the sea?
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Understory: a life with trees
Writer Inga Simpson recounts experiences of a tree change to the Sunshine Coast hinterland.
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The greening of Singapore
The transformation of Singapore into a garden city.
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The greening of Singapore
The transformation of Singapore into a garden city.
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