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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Sharks, devils, wombats: three homo sapiens saving what we've got
Meet three homo-sapiens who are passionate about preserving the future of other species.
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Off Track presents - Branch Out
Do you need a brain to be able to sense the world around you, or to remember or learn?
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Coal transition
If Australia is to move on from coal, how do we do it.
An obvious gap in the Federal Election debates was a comprehensive plan for an industry, and employment, to replace coal in the regions.
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Country Breakfast Features
We're going carbon neutral and harnessing the power of the sun this morning as we take a look at how farming is on the environmental front foot.
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A Big Country
Indigenous women boxing for fitness and confidence; preserving rural property's historic church; ranger catching rabbits with ferrets; rural community draws crowds to pumpkin festival.
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Rural News Highlights June 8
A Melbourne gardener launches first case against Monsanto in Australia, claiming using Round-up caused his cancer.
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Talking frogs, thinking plants
It's a very noisy world out in Australian nature, and sometimes all you need to do is stop and listen (to this).
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Delayed government figures show greenhouse gas emissions up for fourth year in a row
The Morrison Government maintains Australia is still on track to meet its emission reduction targets under the Paris climate change agreement, despite new figures showing emissions have risen for a fourth consecutive year.
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Social media raises funds for town in water crisis
The town's only supermarket has burned down and the nearest source of food and clean water is 80 kilometres away.
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Latest data shows carbon emissions still rising
Minister for Resources Matt Canavan on whether Australia can meet its emissions reduction targets.
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First Nations Climate Summit held in Queensland
Up to 70 First Nations representatives from around the state have made their way to the event in Brisbane.
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This year's World Environment Day theme is air pollution
"I very much want to promote local recycling, land care, farmers and the environment, and the practical things individuals can do, rather than looking at governments and saying, governments must be taking action — what can I do?"
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Morrison Government under fire for not releasing emissions figures
"They've been spinning for years now that they think they can reach Paris commitments in a canter. Well, all of the data shows otherwise," says Greens environment spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young.
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Climate change and health
The link between climate change and health has many dimensions. Health professionals are being urged to take a political stand and call for climate change action.
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Bernard-Henri Levy's take on contemporary European politics
The future for a fractured Europe, Steve Bannon's role in the European Union elections and modern anti-Semitism.
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Amphibians threatened worldwide
We bulldoze their habitat. And if they survive that, their world is getting hotter. Then there’s pollution and fire. The outlook for amphibians is poor.
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Moaning birds, vegetarian rodents and the moon man
Muttonbird Island in NSW is a place of majesty. It's just that the majesty crash lands in the moonlight and sounds like a squeezy toy.
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Queensland set to approve Adani's black throated finch plan
The approval of the finch management plan will leave just one major hurdle, a groundwater-management plan, to be approved before construction can begin.
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How should Australia deal with plastic waste?
Over the past 18 months, a string of Asian countries have told Australia they'll no longer accept Australia's plastic waste for recycling.
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What whale snot tells us about Australia's whale populations
Dr Vanessa Pirotta has created a specially designed waterproof drone that collects bacteria, viruses and DNA from the snot that humpbacks blow from their blowholes.
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