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Automated technology is now being used with hopes of improving the efficiency and reach of South Australia's recycling efforts.
Topics: recycling-and-waste-management, environment, programs-and-initiatives, states-and-territories, community-organisations, community-and-society, pooraka-5095, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedMining will be banned forever in an area of Western Australia's north, paving the way for the creation of Australia's biggest national park.
Topics: environment, conservation, national-parks, bauxite, mining-industry, mining-environmental-issues, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, broome-6725, wa
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| UpdatedA wild dog, which is thought to have killed between 300 and 500 sheep on the Monaro in southern New South Wales, has finally been caught.
Topics: agribusiness, pest-management, environment, sheep-production, pests, national-parks, human-interest, jindabyne-2627, canberra-2600, bega-2550
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| UpdatedThe CSIRO should be awarded a $1.5 million federal grant to find a biological solution to the state's wasp problem, a Victorian Liberal MP says.
Topics: pests, pest-management, environment, research-organisations, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedThere is still no sign of a breakthrough as the deadline looms for a deal on Australia's Renewable Energy Target, with Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane shifting his focus to reaching a deal with the Senate crossbench.
Topics: energy, science-and-technology, environment, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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Labor indicates it will wind back any deal the Government strikes with the crossbench to reduce the Renewable Energy Target, as hopes of a bipartisan deal fade.
Topics: environment, alternative-energy, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedA group of volunteers which does an annual clean-up of remote Tasmanian beaches collects a record amount of rubbish.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-management, tas
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Stradbroke Station is dealing with a 21 hectare infestation of coral cactus during the dry spell. Property manager David Weston is concerned it could spread to other properties if it isn't controlled before the next wet season.
Topics: rural, environment, pests, pest-management, succulent-cactus, livestock, beef-cattle, drought, dajarra-4825
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Topics: rural, pest-management, environment, pests, succulent-cactus, drought, livestock, beef-cattle, dajarra-4825
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| UpdatedCoral cactus is a true survivor.
Topics: rural, pest-management, environment, pests, livestock, beef-cattle, drought, dajarra-4825
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Terrain NRM Group CEO Mike Berwick says more investment is needed to protect the Great Barrier Reef. The Federal Government has just released its Reef 2050 plan to protect the Great Barrier Reef. It is a $2 billion plan, but Mr Berwick says that won't be enough to meet the targets set. Read story.
Topics: great-barrier-reef, environment, water-pollution, rural, water-management, cairns-4870, qld
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| UpdatedNatural resource management group says new targets for t Barrier Reef water quality are admirable, but cannot be achieved within the timeframe.
Topics: great-barrier-reef, fishing-aquaculture, water-management, environment, water-pollution, cairns-4870, qld
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| UpdatedScientists discover that big sections of riverbank along the lower Murray in SA collapsed during drought over the past decade not because they were drying out and hardening, but because the riverbanks were heavy and retaining moisture.
Topics: murray-darling-basin, rivers, environmental-impact, environment, research, murray-bridge-5253, adelaide-5000, sa, renmark-5341
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| UpdatedA top Australian Antarctic expeditioner who fell ill on the icy continent last week is en route to Hobart aboard the Australian ice-breaker Aurora Australis.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, environment, science-and-technology, hobart-7000, tas, antarctica
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| UpdatedThere are fears the survival of the swift parrot has been further compromised after logging approvals in breeding areas, against internal Environment Department advice.
Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, environment, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, tas
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| UpdatedSydney Harbour is becoming "cluttered" with boats, prompting the NSW Department of Transport to launch the first study into the impact of boat moorings on the health of the waterway.
Topics: environmental-impact, environment, environmental-management, environmental-policy, oceans-and-reefs, sydney-2000, nsw
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A Gunnedah-based soil scientist says tests of soil samples from the site of a possible spill of produced coal seam gas water in the Pilliga State Forest show toxic levels of manganese and chloride.
Topics: oil-and-gas, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, mining-industry, environment, pilliga-2388
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| UpdatedFor the third time this century, Broken Hill, one of Australia's most iconic inland cities is facing a critical water crisis.
Topics: drought, water-supply, water-management, water, environment, broken-hill-2880, nsw, australia
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Ethiopia burns a six-tonne pile of seized elephant ivory, the country's entire stock, vowing a "zero tolerance" policy towards poachers and traffickers.
Topics: conservation, environment, endangered-and-protected-species, animals, ethiopia
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| UpdatedThe Federal and Queensland Governments release the final version of the long-term plan for the Great Barrier Reef, ahead of the World Heritage Committee's decision on whether to place the reef on the "in danger" list.
Topics: great-barrier-reef, oceans-and-reefs, environment, government-and-politics, environmental-management, cairns-4870, hamilton-island-4803, qld, australia
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| UpdatedA fashion relic of the late eighties and nineties, the humble scrunchie finds a new lease on life preventing the slaughter of wildlife by domestic cats.
Topics: animals, animals-and-nature, human-interest, environment, wa
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A government agency says tonnes of dumped waste including asbestos has been swiftly removed from a site at Osborne in Adelaide's north-west, to ensure there is no public risk.
Topics: pollution, land-pollution, environment, health, osborne-5017, port-adelaide-5015, adelaide-5000, sa
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Towns across outback Queensland break records for the hottest March day with Richmond hitting 42.7 degrees Celsius.
Topics: weather, environment, qld
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| UpdatedA series of caves sealed off after fierce World War II battles between US and Japanese forces in 1944 are set to be reopened in Palau ahead of a visit by Japan's emperor.
Topics: world-war-2, history, environment, palau, pacific, japan, united-states
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| UpdatedA union official says waste dumped in Adelaide's north-west, close to the Port River, appears to include asbestos.
Topics: asbestos, land-pollution, pollution, environment, unions, health, osborne-5017, port-adelaide-5015, adelaide-5000, sa