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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Flying for your life 3: An unlikely saviour
On the shorelines of the Yellow Sea, eight million shorebirds are probing the sediment for food, but their bellies are empty. Could their epic migration end here on this barren mudflat?
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Country Breakfast summer features
A former sugar cane farm in the Daintree region in far north Queensland is being returned to the forest. A 15-hectare site is being replanted with rainforest trees.
Further north in Torres Strait islanders are being encouraged to embrace a healthier lifestyle.
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Best of A Big Country
Afghan refugees are happy to call Shepparton home; training up the next generation of jackeroos and jillaroos; we cruise Wilson Inlet with fisherman George Ebbett; and give baby crocs a helping hand into the world.
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Braving the world's coldest waters for a cause
Lewis Pugh braves below-freezing waters in some of the coldest places on Earth to draw attention to our warming planet.
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Braving the world's coldest waters for a cause
Lewis Pugh braves below-freezing waters in some of the coldest places on Earth to draw attention to our warming planet.
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Wildscapes and confronting ourselves
Moral philosopher Raimond Gaita and poet Nick Drake discuss their journeys into wild landscapes, that hold up a confronting mirror to ourselves, our ethics and our politics.
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Drones will feed the world : Analyst
In China, the drone industry has expressed particular interest in how Unmanned Aerial Vehicles can be used to grow food and maintain crops.
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Searching for a babbler, and life on a cattle station
We're looking for the grey-crowned babbler in Northern Victoria; Indonesian students are loving life on a Northern Territory pastoral station; and a Cairns butcher reveals the secret behind his meat display cabinet.
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Flying for your life 2: China's new great wall
Australia's migratory shorebirds have just flown 5,000 kilometres northward to stopover in the Yellow Sea. What will they find when they arrive?
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Moving Pictures
Travels with a camera to the ends of the earth, a memoir of filming wild life in action.
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History of Australian farming: the 1960s
In 1945 the first Country Hour program went to air, and so began Australia's longest running radio program.
We're looking back at the biggest agricultural stories to celebrate 70-plus years of ABC rural broadcasting. In the 1960s all eyes turn to the Kimberley and the Ord Irrigation scheme.
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Best of A Big Country
We're looking for the grey-crowned babbler in Northern Victoria; Indonesian students are loving life on a Northern Territory pastoral station; and a Cairns butcher reveals the secret behind his meat display cabinet.
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Severe annual bleaching of coral reefs expected if trends continue
2016 was Australia's hottest on record for ocean temperatures, and was marked by widespread bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef towards the end of summer.
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The nuclear brink
Former US Secretary of Defence, William J. Perry, warns that the risk of nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was during the Cold War and is growing every year.
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Exploring nature
What does nature mean to each of us? Why is nature so pure? And how do we reconnect with the natural world in an age where our lives are connected to technology?
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Port Augusta residents concerned about ash blanketing city
South Australian senator Nick Xenophon says the ash currently blanketing Port Augusta is so toxic it can't even be classified as waste fill.
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Listening to nature
Animal sounds and bird song have adapted to specific environments and habitats, but the use of sound has in turn shaped the evolution of different species. And that includes homo sapiens. Sound has formed us as social and cultural ‘animals’.
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Searching for the endangered yellow chat, and milking camels
Ornithologists and volunteer twitchers search Kakadu National Park for the endangered yellow chat; goats make a meal of weeds in the Bega Valley; we visit a dairy farm with a difference - this one milks camels.
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Costa Rica: the happiest country on Earth
With stable democratic government, a well developed health system and a highly educated population, Costa Rica is the happiest nation on earth.
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