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On the 72nd anniversary of the bombing of Darwin, the Government has declared the World War Two United States Army Transport (USAT) vessel Don Isidro, as a protected historic shipwreck.

Agency 2014 application on ecological sustainability - comments close 3 April 2014

Agency 2014 application on ecological sustainability - comments close 3 April 2014

Discarders of electronic goods expect them to be recycled properly. But almost all such devices contain toxic chemicals which, even if they are recyclable, make it expensive to do so. As a result, illegal dumping has become a lucrative business.

Photographer Kevin McElvaney documents Agbogbloshie, a former wetland in Accra, Ghana, which is home to the world’s largest e-waste dumping site. Boys and young men smash devices to get to the metals, especially copper. Injuries, such as burns, untreated wounds, eye damage, lung and back problems, go hand in hand with chronic nausea, anorexia, debilitating headaches and respiratory problems. Most workers die from cancer in their 20s

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Today we celebrate an important milestone in Australia’s Antarctic history – 100 years since Australian geologist, Dr Douglas Mawson, returned from his epic two-year Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE).

A landholders factsheet is now available

Image showing Megalodon swimming past U-boats off Cape Town was doctored. Come clean, or prove me wrong

The suspicion that the Discovery Channel had abandoned its professed editorial standards was a powerful one. As I mentioned in my earlier blog, its documentary claiming that the giant shark Carchardon megalodon still exists contained images which gave a strong impression of being faked; reports of incidents which don't appear to have happened; and interviews with "marine biologists" no one has been able to trace.

But allegations of fakery are very hard to prove. As you know, absence of evidence doesn't mean evidence of absence. Just because no one has been able to find the news reports the Megalodon show claims to have found, or any record of the deaths of four people in an attack by a giant shark off South Africa last year, or any trace of the suspiciously handsome experts it used to confirm its thesis doesn't prove definitively that all of them are inventions, even though it's hard to see how they could not be.

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Release of the Terms of Reference for a review into the Renewable Energy Target (RET) scheme.

Release of the Terms of Reference for a review into the Renewable Energy Target (RET) scheme.

Agency 2014 application on ecological sustainability - comments close 18 March 2014

The first edition of the Emissions Reduction Fund Update newsletter is now available. The newsletter provides regular updates on the implementation of the Emissions Reduction Fund.

Applications close 5.00 pm AEDT Friday 14 March 2014.

The Department is currently seeking public comment on a draft assessment bilateral agreement with the State of South Australia. Comments close 17 March 2014.

The Government has released the annual report on its activities to meet the goals of its 2010–15 Australian Packaging Covenant Action Plan. The report shows strong progress is being made by all Australian Government agencies on best practice...

Quarterly Update of Australia's National Greenhouse Gas Inventory: September 2013

Quarterly Update of Australia's National Greenhouse Gas Inventory: September 2013

Scientists believe the group is one of the last chimp 'mega-cultures', sharing a unique set of customs and behaviour

In one of the most dangerous regions of the planet, against all odds, a huge yet mysterious population of chimpanzees appears to be thriving – for now. Harboured by the remote and pristine forests in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and on the border of the Central African Republic, the chimps were completely unknown until recently – apart from the local legends of giant apes that ate lions and howled at the moon.

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Applications close 5.00 pm AEDT Friday 7 March 2014.