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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: 2 hours 27 min ago
The Chase 2 - Back from the dead
Obsessives, dumpy birds and disapproving academics: the saga of the night parrot.
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Finding my place in the bush, finding my place in the world
When the place we grow up in is destroyed, it can be traumatic. Often these places are where we form our first connections to nature and our senses of self.
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Talkback: Black Saturday 10 years on
As communities move towards renewal after Black Saturday, we ask how they're coping and what lessons have been learned.
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Hands-on rescue plan to save Murray Cod from Menindee
Fisheries officers will be trying to scoop up the Murray Cod in nets and then drive them more than 100 kilometres downstream.
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Interstate waste almost doubles, report finds
The amount of rubbish being transported from New South Wales and dumped in Queensland landfills has skyrocketed in the past year.
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Chasing butterflies
Follow the journey of science reporter Jo Chandler as she chases the remarkable Queen Alexandra birdwing butterfly.
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Finding a new home for displaced koalas and production ramps up at remote oyster farm
Koalas displaced by housing development are finding a new home on a Queensland cattle station; production ramps up at a remote oyster farm off Arnhem Land; performers run away from the circus to become avocado farmers; and an urban farm does a roaring trade in farmgate produce.
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How can we cut down our plastic use?
Despite our recycling efforts, almost every piece of plastic we've ever produced is still with us. Is it time to rethink our relationship with plastic?
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The community group turning farmland back into rainforest
The Ourimbah Landcare Group, on the NSW Central Coast, is reversing years of damage from farming and foreign vegetation, while creating strong bonds of friendship.
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The real source of financial wellbeing, restoring rainforest, quitting plastic
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Menindee fish kill - politics and water
A decade into the most ambitious program to save the Murray-Darling river system from ecological disaster, hundreds of thousands of dead fish suggest that all is not going to plan.
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Gridlock: Australia’s electricity system buckles as politicians stall on energy policy
Australia's national electricity grid has once again buckled under the pressure of a scorching hot summer. Consumers are furious not only about blackouts but rising power bills, too.
For decades, politicians have promised solutions they failed to deliver.
Reporter Mario Christodoulou investigates the toxic politics of energy.
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Gridlock: Australia’s electricity system buckles as politicians stall on energy policy
Australia's national electricity grid has once again buckled under the pressure of a scorching hot summer. Consumers are furious not only about blackouts but rising power bills, too.
For decades, politicians have promised solutions they failed to deliver. Reporter Mario Christodoulou investigates the toxic politics of energy.
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Antarctic protection vital for ecosystems’ long-term future
Len Fisher outlines the history of Antarctic governance and says politicians need to be aware of the continent’s importance, and the views of those passionate for Antarctica’s protection.
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Water situation in Palestine reaches crisis point
With only one in ten households reported to have direct access to safe water, and 98% of Gaza's water unfit for human consumption, the water situation in Palestine has reached a state of emergency.
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A Big Country
Koalas displaced by housing development are finding a new home on a Queensland cattle station; production ramps up at a remote oyster farm off Arnhem Land; performers run away from the circus to become avocado farmers; and an urban farm does a roaring trade in farmgate produce.
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Rural News
Cattle deaths on Pilbara Station; NSW Water minister denies responsibility for second major fish kill; Drinking water delivered to drought-affected far-west NSW; Medical journal calls for food system overhaul to tackle major global issues.
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Can this diet prevent the collapse of the natural world?
The world's top scientists say that if we all follow the planetary health diet, we can prevent 11 million people a year from deaths caused by unhealth eating and malnutrition and avoid catastrophic climate change.
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Murray-Darling Royal Commission assessment 'a matter of legal opinion', Glyde says
Chief executive of the Murray Darling Basin Authority Phillip Glyde said he and his staff are "caught between competing legal opinions".
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Should horses train on Victoria's beaches?
Locals say horse training on the beach threatens migratory birds and disrupts access. Racing groups say a balance of environmental concerns and the economic value of training horses can be reached.
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