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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Tesla sees Australia as big market for battery storage
The US electric car maker Tesla is also known for kicking off the current revolution in energy storage. And given the widespread take-up of roof-top solar panels in Australia, they believe it will be the biggest market for their Powerwall home energy storage system.
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Ride the Roper River taxi and Charlie's a pint-sized shearer
Hop on board the Roper River taxi service - the only way in and out of Ngukurr during the wet; a feral cat makes a meal of a snake; young cattle handlers put their best 'hoof' forward; and meet Charlie Dunn the pint-sized shearer.
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All that lives beneath the sand
Though it may seem like sandy beaches are largely devoid of life, underneath the sand and kelp is a bustling world of tiny animals and plants that live between the grains of sand.
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Tales of love, lust, death and dark webs
A 25-year-old spider the size of a dinner plate? They exist, right here in Australia.
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A Big Country
Hop on board the Roper River taxi service - the only way in and out of Ngukurr during the wet; a feral cat makes a meal of a snake; young cattle handlers put their best 'hoof' forward; and meet Charlie Dunn the pint-sized shearer.
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How to conduct an echidna census
The growing population of echidnas at Mulligans Flat Woodlands Sanctuary has forced researchers to consider ways of regulating the population.
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Birds return to Lake Cowal and spreading the farm safe message
Lake Cowal in New South Wales is home once again to thousands of waterbirds; meet a young winemaker with a real connection to the earth; and UK farmer Jim Chapman spreads the farm-safe message.
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Sugar industry turns to psychology to boost efforts to save reef
Behavioural science is the latest tool in the battle to save reef.
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The duty of researchers to influence policy
Simon Chapman AO says there's never been a more important time for researchers all over the world to speak up about their work — its implications and how societies and governments should act on it.
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Getting more out of recycling e-waste
A school girl in Boston has found use for the fibreglass backing used in circuit boards which currently is not recycled and adds to poisonous leaching from landfill.
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Seagrass ecosystems reduce bacterial pathogens in seawater
Seagrasses produce oxygen, absorb large quantities of carbon dioxide, and now have been shown to cleanse water of bacteria.
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A game of trap and mouse
One was caught in 2010. Just one. A tiny, nine centimetre long mouse, with whiskers like a spray of fireworks and a white, fluffy belly. Since then, none.
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A Big Country
Lake Cowal in New South Wales is home once again to thousands of waterbirds; meet a young winemaker with a real connection to the earth; and UK farmer Jim Chapman spreads the farm-safe message.
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Rainwater, tears and spit: the strange collection of the Museum of Water
Melted ice from the Antarctic, a vial of tears, a plastic bottle of water from a firetruck and three different types of wee are all exhibits in the Museum of Water - an exploration of our relationship with the world's most indispensable liquid.
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‘We are concerned about heat stress on the GBR’: Frydenberg
‘Real progress’ on reef says Josh Frydenberg, despite warnings of an ‘elevated and imminent risk’ of widespread coral bleaching across the Great Barrier Reef again this year.
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Government failing to address threat of climate change to Great Barrier Reef: report
With declining coral cover, poor water quality and the impacts of climate change, the future of the Great Barrier Reef has been under close scrutiny in recent years by the World Heritage Committee.
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Political climate changing?
Is there a conservative case for climate change? Former Republican Congressman Bob Inglis believes so.
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Dakota Access Pipeline protesters evicted from camp
Protesters have been blocking construction of the pipeline for months, and maintain that they will continue to fight despite the eviction.
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The secret lives of dolphins
A world-first study has been conducted that tracks wild dolphins off the coast of New Zealand.
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Senate hearing into Perth Freight Link as clearing continues
There'll be a snap hearing into the Roe 8 highway extension this week, as contractors continue to clear land in the Beeliar Wetlands.
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