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.
Updated: 17 min 23 sec ago
Owl with attitude
A powerful avian predator is making do in Melbourne's suburbs. For now.
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Australian animal poachers let off with light sentences: report
The Humane Society are calling for mandatory sentencing and for jurisdictions like the Northern Territory to set-up dedicated environmental courts to deal with the problem.
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Climate change causes extinction crisis in Australia's wet tropics
Researchers now fear a range of high profile species, such as the Lemuroid Ringtail Possum, could disappear from the world's oldest rainforest within three years.
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Business and Finance – #watergate, tax heroes and Trump sues Deutsche Bank
Which companies pay the most tax in Australia?
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#AusVoter2019 Debate: Kerryn Phelps vs Dave Sharma
Wentworth in Sydney's leafy inner-east is the once-blue ribbon Liberal seat, which was held by former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull until late last year.
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Can theatre fight climate change?
Fleur Kilpatrick and David Finnigan discuss whether the spectre of climate change is destined to become a common theme on our stages.
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Privilege, power and poo
Is there such a thing as the perfect toilet or does it depend on where you live? Assa Doran takes us though the history to discover that privilege, power and poo are connected. So how does that play out in India?
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Too important for environmentalists?
Are environmentalists doing more harm than good when it comes to mitigating the effects of climate change? Mallen Baker believes so. What can be done to help solve the problems of climate change in a way that benefits everyone and not just those who think they know best?
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The fallout from nuclear nations
Fred Pearce’s book Fallout is a fascinating insight into a few of the disastrous episodes which took place during the hasty and ill-informed projects of the nuclear age, Dr Helen Caldicott says.
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Life at extreme ocean depths
Tim O’Hara trawled the deep-sea floor and shows his catch to Matt Smith.
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Mysteries of the bizarre ancient fish, the coelacanth
Its brain occupies just 1% of its brain case. John Long suggests development of the brain is arrested to allow growth of the rostral organ which is the basis of the animal sensing its food.
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Impacts of high-tide flooding on local economic activity
As sea level rises, economic impacts are being felt. A carpark in the tourist area of Annapolis floods more now at high tide. Visitor numbers are down. And turnover is drifting lower.
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Rural News Highlights
Questions raised over $80 million of water buybacks in 2017; The National Farmers Federation has joined forces with the red meat industry to launch advice for primary producers if they encounter trespassers; crop insurance hits a snag.
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Professor Waterhouse's wonderful plant [re-issue]
Professor Peter Waterhouse and the wonder plant Nicotiana benthamiana.
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Federal election campaigning to ramp up as half-way mark approaches
With Easter and ANZAC Day now over, the federal election will shift up a gear next week as the campaign fast approaches the half-way mark.
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Oceans hit by bigger waves and winds over past 33 years, study finds
A new global study has found bigger waves and more extreme winds have hit the world's oceans over the past 33 years, as the Victorian coastline is set to be battered by a massive swell today.
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Queensland split north-south on the Adani coal mine
So far, the proposed Adani coal mine has captured quite a bit of attention. The divisions are writ large in Queensland, the home of the proposed project, and Australia's most decentralised state.
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New research heralds good news for endangered green sea turtle population
Researchers from California have found populations of endangered green sea turtles are rising in Pacific coral reefs. It's the first major in-water survey of turtle populations in the Pacific and one of the biggest sea turtle surveys ever carried out.
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Liberal candidate for Gilmore Warren Mundine
The battle for the marginal seat of Gilmore on the New South Wales south coast is shaping up as one of the uglier, more interesting contests in the federal election.
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Shadow Environment Minister Tony Burke rules out Murray Darling Basin Royal Commission
Labor had threatened to call for a Royal Commission into the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, instead they'll focus solely on Barnaby Joyce's handling of the 2017 water buy backs.
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