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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Hit the frog and toad
It was thought that cane toads couldn't survive, and certainly couldn't breed as far south as Sydney. That thought was spectacularly wrong. [repeat]
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Explaining risk
Kate Hughes describes some approaches to explaining risk and says scientists are notoriously poor at this important task.
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Enova puts power into the hands of the community
Alison Crook describes the savings and benefits which come out of local community-based energy retailers.
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Rural News
Federal Government announces via changes, investigation into live export handling and economic impact of drought becoming clearer.
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Angus Taylor attempts to secure power price reductions
The Federal Government is claiming a victory - of sorts - in its bid to get energy retailers to lower their prices by January next year.
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Burning Question: paper towels or hand dryers?
You've washed your hands in a public bathroom, now how do you dry them? Which way's best for the environment — and you?
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Invasive ant eradicated from Lord Howe Island
The African big-headed ant is listed among the world's worst 100 pests and, once established, can reduce indigenous species numbers by up to 85 per cent.
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Mending the generation gap and Cobdogla celebrates Halloween
A sewing group helps bridge the generation gap one stitch at a time; Warwick's rubbish rambler helps keep Australia clean; and Cobdogla embraces Halloween.
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Transitioning to a new economy
Parts of Australia were built on mining and coal-fired power-generation. Then they lost those industries. Future Tense looks as innovative ways to move forward.
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He's been through the desert
His business card says 'desert walker' and he's not afraid of death.
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Ammonia’s big future in fuels and fertiliser
By use of ionic liquids, Douglas MacFarlane and his team have developed a super-efficient way of producing ammonia using renewable energy. Ammonia is used for production of fertiliser, and as a medium for transporting hydrogen.
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Soft plastic used in new road surface
The plastic replaces bitumen and promises to be the start of a new channel for the use of soft plastic which currently is either stockpiled or buried.
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A Big Country 3 November 2018
A sewing group helps bridge the generation gap one stitch at a time; Warwick's rubbish rambler helps keep Australia clean; and Cobdogla embraces Halloween.
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Good evidence, bad politics
How do experts in highly contentious fields, such as climate change and migration, cut through the noise to ensure that good evidence, not fake news, makes the headlines?
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It's official: noise pollution is bad for our health
New WHO guidelines say policy makers and urban planners need to reduce the noise in our environment, so we can all be healthier.
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Major report warns annihilation of wildlife
A major WWF report has found humanity has wiped out 60 per cent of the world's animals since 1970.
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The bitter taste of the monarch butterfly
Native to North America, it was an extraordinary string of luck including a gold rush, cyclones, the rise of ornamental gardening that led to the naturalisation of the monarch butterfly in Australia.
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Communicating long-term problems to short-term politicians
Len Fisher offers ideas for getting politicians to see beyond the electoral cycle.
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Side hustle James Walker
It’s known in the biz as a side hustle – the job you have on the side outside your normal day job and farmer James Walker has multiple side hustles
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Your social media activities and potential employers
How your LinkedIn profile, Twitter engagement and other social media activities are influencing the views of potential employers. And James Walker, from western QLD, has so many work projects he is not even sure which is his 'side' hustle.
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