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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Future of one of the world's last great desert river systems in central Australia under threat: new report
The defining 'boom and bust' flooding cycles of Australia's inland Great Artesian Basin desert river systems are under threat from the development of unconventional gas mining, according to a new report.
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Maroochydore adopts a high-speed underground waste disposal system
It will be the first Australian city to install the system, which relies on underground pneumonic tubes to transfer waste out of the city-centre.
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Preserving the future of coral reefs
Is there a way of using farming to save coral?
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IT Helpdesk: Old tech
Our in-house IT Helpdesk expert helps us use or dispose of old tech items.
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The Toadbusters
Scientists are hoping to stop cane toad migration across Australia by creating a dry zone south of Broome.
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Conservation and the act of the kill
‘I'd much rather be growing things than killing things,’ says Geoff Williams on the eve of a deer hunt. ‘I'd love to come down here and just walk around in the scrub, but I spend too many hours chasing these other bloody animals.’
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Tech innovations combat wildlife crime
A team of Australian scientists have won a prize to develop a portable 'electronic nose' that may be able to accurately and quickly identify trafficked animals and body parts in the field to assist in law enforcement.
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Wildlife meeting to tackle global poaching crisis
As wildlife poaching pushes animals such as rhinos and elephants toward extinction, representatives from a record number of nations will gather in South Africa next week for a critical wildlife conference.
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Tech Head: oyster-saving app, NAB's cardless credit and Facebook editorial policies
A new app has been developed to save oysters from disease in Tasmania.
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Beyond the coal rush part 3: The transition begins
Global investment in renewable energy is now higher than in fossil fuels. China has a policy to shift away from coal and has begun an energy transition. Change is happening. The challenge is for the world to rebuild its energy system quickly to minimise damage from a warming planet.
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Saving Victoria's endangered orchids
With one leaf, one potato-like tuber and one flower when the time is right, the Yellow-lip Spider-orchid is one of the rarest plants in Australia. It is also sexually deceptive.
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Designing homes with sustainability in mind
This Sunday is Sustainable House Day and we visit one house in Melbourne which has had a sustainable makeover.
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Country Breakfast Features 10 Sep
Pigs are wreaking havoc in the Daintree forest, but there's concern about how they should be controlled; and why a 'pastured egg' could be your new breakfast choice.
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Quoll numbers down in the Pilbara and chasing an elusive fox
A poor wet season sees a drop in northern quoll numbers in the Pilbara; the scallop season begins in Tasmania; a home delivery scheme works for farmers and consumers; and the Brook Hunt Club chases an elusive fox.
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Blue water cowboys
At sea the world dissolves and you're left with the sound of your own thoughts.
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I am the river and the river is me
New Zealand's Te Urewera Act represents a legal revolution.
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Beyond the coal rush part 2: The age of coal
Tom Morton continues his report of struggles against coal on three continents as local people fight to protect, homes, farmlands and forests.
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Modern day orchidelirium
Cheap supermarket orchids may act as a 'gateway drug' to the exotic and challenging world of orchidelirium.
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