ABC Environment
![Subscribe to ABC Environment feed](https://www.seng.org.au/misc/feed.png)
![ABC Environment](http://www.abc.net.au/cm/rimage/3820234-1x1-thumbnail.jpg?v=3)
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 45 min ago
Cube-shaped wombat poo
Have we finally figured out how wombats make cube-shaped poo!?
Categories: Around The Web
Bushfires and other extreme weather events
Bushfires in Queensland, spring snowfall in Victoria, gale force winds in South Australia — all in the past month. How many more extreme weather events should we expect?
Categories: Around The Web
Trams, bots and solar roads
A cross between a bus and light rail promises better transport; humans are sounding more like bots online; and solar panels on roads might deliver more hype than energy.
Categories: Around The Web
UN Climate Report warns current emissions reduction won’t keep warming under 2 degrees
The 2018 Emissions Gap Report released this week by UN Environment shows global emissions have hit an historic high and are showing "no signs of peaking".
Categories: Around The Web
National Rural News highlights
Queensland's unprecedented firestorm hit small lot farmers; Cotton grower Anthony Barlow pleads guilty to illegal pumping of Murray Darling water; Dangerously unstable live export ship banned from carrying stock; Serious doubts raised about carp control virus; India's chickpea tariffs likely to stay.
Categories: Around The Web
School students strike to demand action on climate change
They did so, despite calls by the Prime Minister to concentrate on learning rather than activism.
Categories: Around The Web
Adani's Carmichael mine to go ahead
The Indian energy giant Adani has announced it is ready to begin construction on the Carmichael mine and rail project in central Queensland.
Categories: Around The Web
Arson and the age of fire
Chloe Hooper on Victoria's 'Black Saturday' bushfires, the arsonist responsible for two of the fires, and why we are living in an age of fire.
Categories: Around The Web
Australia's eastern states battle wild weather
Extreme weather meteorologist Dean Narramore explains the weather systems causing chaos across parts of the country.
Categories: Around The Web
Federal Politics: anti-terror deportation laws and Labor's energy policy
Katherine Murphy from Guardian Australia discusses stripping terrorists of their citizenship, and the ALP backing batteries and renewables.
Categories: Around The Web
Renewables, NEG and batteries: unpacking Labor's energy policy
The Grattan Institute's Tony Wood and Sarah McNamara from the Australian Energy Council discuss Labor's proposed energy policy and the Coalition's attempts to pass energy company divestiture laws.
Categories: Around The Web
Can the US learn from Finnish forest fire prevention?
While responding to the California wildfires, President Trump pointed to the successful practices of Finland in forest fire prevention.
Categories: Around The Web
Will Australia meet its Paris emissions target commitments?
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Energy Minister Angus Taylor keep telling Australians the government will meet its emission reductions targets "at a a canter" — but the experts aren't so sure.
Categories: Around The Web
Penguins Little by name, but not by nature
Off Track explores the Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor) colony on Bowen Island in NSW. [Repeat]
Categories: Around The Web
Sustainable farming in the face of climate change
How can farmers adapt and innovate to ensure the future of farming and our agricultural land?
Categories: Around The Web
Melissa Price on energy policy, environment and the Pacific
The federal government is shrugging off calls from oil and gas producer Woodside for the introduction of a carbon tax.
Categories: Around The Web
The Kids' Conference: students teaching teachers
This special conference sees primary and secondary students present innovative projects relating to history, geography, science, English and technologies.
Categories: Around The Web
Indonesian Government's claimed increase in orangutan population 'not biologically possible', expert says
"I think there is some political vested interest in indicating things are looking much better than they are on the ground."
Categories: Around The Web
Australians are mistakenly putting soft plastics in the recycling
Apparently, it's our most common recycling mistake.
Categories: Around The Web
The power of hope
Kon Karapanagiotidis, Banok Rind, Alisha Fernando, Leila Gurruwiwi, Jane Vadiveloo and Caroline Cabezas talk about the power of love, music, language and hope.
Categories: Around The Web