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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In Season: Sprinter
Four seasons just aren't enough for some people. Tim Entwisle's come up with 'Sprinter' and, with Matthew Crawford, he investigates some harbingers of the new season — native orchids and migrating cuckoos.
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Country Breakfast Features Sat 6th August
German consumers and farmers are trying to understand each other better, thanks to the push toward sustainable agriculture.
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Will driverless cars rule the road by 2030?
Telstra's chief scientist says driverless cars are coming, and that they'll force a rethink about how we design our roads.
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Batteries and software energise renewables
New innovative software combined with local generation and storage is changing the way we generate, use, buy and sell electricity.
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The amphibious, fluffy, golden-bellied Rakali
The largest rodent in Australia is amphibious, fulfils the same niche as an otter and could be used to get rid of the pest black rat. AND, it's got a golden, fluffy belly. It's the water rat.
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Fuels of the future
This week, fasten your seatbelts because we’re taking a trip into the future of fuels. We ask if biofuels are really that brilliant and discover how one lab is attempting to reinvent diesel.
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ScienceTalk: Jupiter's hot spot and the relationship between campfires and tuberculosis
ABC Science journalist Bernie Hobbs takes us through the latest stories - in this case how fire that brought warmth and comfort to early humans may also have triggered the emergence of deadly tuberculosis and how Jupiter's Great Red 'Hot Spot' may explain atmospheric mystery.
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New Zealand to exterminate all pests by 2050
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has announced a radical new plan to rid the country of pests.
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RN scientist in residence talks innovation and climate change
How technology can save the world from climate change.
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Soil microbes burp carbon dioxide after drought-breaking rain
Identifying the microbes and knowing their distribution will be one more important step in understanding the carbon cycle, and of monitoring and predicting emissions of greenhouse gases.
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Expectation influences reporting of adverse health effects from wind farms
Reports of health effects from wind farms do not match where wind farms are found. Other factors are at play. Fiona Crichton explains.
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E-waste a rich source of rare metals
At UNSW, researchers are investigating the economics and practicalities of e-waste recycling saving the embodied energy, and keeping rare resources, skills and jobs in Australia.
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In want of water
Imagine Melbourne without the bay, Perth without the beach and Sydney without the Harbour.
Imagine if there was no standing water in your town.
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Self-drive cars, a safer option or accident waiting to happen?
Should autopilot cars be banned?
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The Bandicoots are back!
Eleven endangered southern brown bandicoots have been translocated to Booderee National Park. They haven't been seen in the area since World War One.
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ScienceTalk: Mothballs for quantum computing, and global biodiversity reaches unsafe levels
ABC Science journalist Bernie Hobbs takes us through the latest stories - in this case how naphthalene (from mothballs) can aid in the dream of quantum computing, and a new data mine of global diversity shows many biomes are desperately unsafe.
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Crimes against the environment
Steven Freeland outlines the case for new international laws to deal with crimes against the environment during war.
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Danielle Clode
A pod of killer whales lived and hunted with local whalers around Twofold Bay, New South Wales.
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From mallee to jet fuel - eucalypt oil
PHD student David Kainer believes the energy density of oils drawn from biomass and foliage of species like Mallee is not only fit for aircraft fuel, it could be grown and harvested sustainably.
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