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Australia’s Abatement Task and 2013 Emissions Projections
Call for public comment
Delisting 25 species from the Threatened Species List
Product Stewardship (Oil) Act 2000
Marine reserves review
Fracking hell: what it's really like to live next to a shale gas well
Veronica Kronvall can, even now, remember how excited she felt about buying her house in 2007. It was the first home she had ever owned and, to celebrate, her aunt fitted out the kitchen in Kronvall's favourite colour, purple: everything from microwave to mixing bowls. A cousin took pictures of her lying on the floor of the room that would become her bedroom. She planted roses and told herself she would learn how to garden.
Continue reading...Additional Commonwealth environmental water made available for use in the Goulburn River between January and June 2014
Release of the June quarter 2013 national inventory estimates
Protected Areas database 2012 data now online
Environmental watering of Rilli Reach and Ramco River Terrace during 2013-14 to 2015-16
Abbot Point and Curtis Island projects approved
Key threatening process assessment open for public comment
Tasmanian company to revegetate and protect blue gum forest in response to the clearing of 4 ha of native vegetation
Strategic Water Purchase Initiative in Victoria 2013-14 - Round 2 application period now closed
Tolkien gesture – scientist maps climate of Lord of the Rings
Climate sceptics regularly work themselves into a lather dismissing mainstream climate science as fantasy – but for once they have a point.
A researcher at Bristol University has trained his powerful supercomputer not at predicting the earth's future climate, but on the fictional world of Middle Earth – the backdrop for JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
Continue reading...Public consultation: Draft Koala referral guidelines
Caladenia porphyrea, Corunastylis sp. Charmhaven, Corunastylis insignis and Thelymitra adorata
Gymnobelideus leadbeateri (Leadbeater’s possum)
Over 1,000 cyclists stage die-in protest outside Transport for London HQ
On Friday night I had a quick word with my boss (also a regular cyclist) and then slipped away a little early from Kings Place to pedal down Farringdon Road, over Blackfriars Bridge and on to the Transport for London building. As I arrived at 4.50pm there was already a fair-sized huddle of fellow cyclists gathering in the cold around a portable sound system and banner on the pavement.
The quickly swelling crowd was the result of less than two weeks' hectic and quite spontaneous activism by a relatively small group of people, coordinated via Facebook. I had been one of those activists.
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