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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Bight oil drilling 'not best practice', expert says
The Norwegian Government backed company Equinor wants to drill in the Great Australian Bight but one global oil and gas expert is questioning the proposal.
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Water buybacks dominate PM's day on the campaign trail
The Prime Minister spent the day fielding questions over a controversial $80 million dollar water purchase.
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The magic of mushrooms
Mushrooms are wonderous, magic or not, because they taste so good in a soup or a sauce or or sautéed with some garlic. But they are so much more than that. Richard Gray takes us through the more extraordinary things that are happening with mushrooms right now.
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Earworms from Planet Earth VIII
Angry sheep or randy frog? Motorbike or koala rev? Indigestion or monkey? Get the headphones out for another set of wild sounds from sent in by Off Track listeners from around the globe.
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What do young people care about this election?
A survey by Triple J shows young Australians are most concerned about climate change and the environment.
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Labor says it won't release new climate modelling
Climate Change and Energy Spokesman Mark Butler insists power prices will fall under Labor's scheme.
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Kosciuszko brumby numbers double, NSW Government data shows
The news comes as an official five-yearly survey of wild horse populations gets underway in the alpine national parks of Victoria, New South Wales and the ACT.
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Bob Brown to lead anti-Adani convoy as government 'stokes more coals'
"It’s going to remind voters, on May 18 they have a choice, either they vote for Adani or they vote against it. They vote for a future which is safe, or they vote for all the problems... which come out of global warming."
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What price nature?
Can we better conserve our ecosystems and biodiversity by placing an economic value on it?
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Playgrounds incorporating more nature and less gender
For many years, playgrounds have featured a swing and slide, tan bark, park benches and little else. But a nature-based landscape movement is changing that.
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Protecting Malgana country
Bianca McNeair is looking at how to ensure her community — particularly the women — are involved in the conservation of Malgana country.
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Antarctic coasts melted by warmer oceans
And rising oceans makes it easier for chunks of ice to slide seaward.
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Australian hydrogen could power the world many times over
Peter Hadfield reports on developing technologies for converting hydrogen to ammonia as a way of transporting hydrogen.
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Water in the Palestinian territories
A lack of access to adequate, safe, and clean water has been a longstanding problem for Palestinians living in the Palestinian Territories.
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Rural News
This week the final report on the Menindee fish kills; vegans protest over livestock farming, and one of the last dairy farms in the southern Riverina shuts up shop.
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Gone fish - pygmy perch pushed too far
The tiny Yarra pygmy perch, with golden sheen and teardrop eye, has been pushed to extinction in the Murray Darling Basin. Now, all hopes for its return are focussed on a couple of farm dams.
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Could the Yarra Pygmy Perch be the Murray-Darling Basin's first fish extinction?
After ten long years of searching, scientists have failed to find trace of a living Yarra Pygmy Perch in the Coorong, in South Australia.
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Greens aim to win Senate balance of power
Greens Leader Richard Di Natale is already calling the election for Labor, but he wants control of the Upper House.
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Murray-Darling fish kill report released today
The report recommends increasing fish movements, removing less water from the river system during droughts, and better monitoring of the low oxygen levels, high water temperatures, and algal blooms that can kill fish.
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Labor's 50% electric car goal: too ambitious or not ambitious enough?
Wiebe Wakker, who drove from Amsterdam to Sydney, in an electric car says it's the latter.
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