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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Federal Politics: Shorten's pre-school pledge, Turnbull's travel perks and Paris disagreement
National Political Editor at The Sunday Telegraph, Annika Smethurst, discusses the biggest news from the world of federal politics with RN Drive.
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Death of the killer whales?
Killer whale populations are facing collapse due to pollutants which were banned in the 1970's.
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UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change expected to release report
What would it mean if the global warming target of 1.5 degrees Celsius is not met? Climate Scientist Tim Flannery joins RN Breakfast.
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Is it too soon to ditch fossil fuels?
While politicians weigh up climate change, scientists say we urgently need to act. Can we take years or decades to move away from fossil fuels or should we need move immediately to renewable energy?
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Choosing foods which use less water
Forget the three minute shower. Food production takes the lions share of our water so you might have to rethink chocolate, and other foods, which take so much water to produce.
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Sustainable food
Thinking about the water needed to produce the food on your plate and laws to enforce sustainable fishing.
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Echidna indigestion and other eating tails
It’s a bat eat mouse, lizard eat possum, wallaby eat bird world out there. Animals are always eating weird stuff.
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Could fracking set off the next financial crisis?
"The industry has a very bad history of money going into it and never coming out", so why does Wall Street keep feeding the fracking firms?
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OECD report: government's failing on climate change
A new report by the OECD and the World Bank has found the vast majority of nations have failed to take action to meet their Paris Agreement climate targets.
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Earworms from Planet V
The sounds of wild Australia recorded by the audience and identified by a panel of experts.
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Sympathy, hypocrisy, responsibility: Who’s to blame for climate change?
What is the nature of moral responsibility when confronted with a problem as complex as climate change?
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Where's the toilet? - design, disability and inclusion
Many of us take getting around our cities and towns for granted. But it's not as easy for those with a disability, and the elderly.
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Scientists prove climate change impact on Hurricane Florence
Researchers have found that man-made climate change has increased Hurricane Florence's rainfall by 50 per cent.
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Dining with Killer Whales
The water turns red and smells of fish. It's the blood of the prey of a pod of Orcas. This episode of Off Track has been selected from the archives for your listening pleasure.
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Coping with the 50 degree city
When the mercury rises in our cities, how will Australians cope?
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Country Breakfast Features
This week, what it's like caring for hundreds of injured wildlife around the clock; and the nation's grain harvest brings the good, the bad and the ugly.
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Cross-party climate change momentum in New Zealand
In 2016, Globe-NZ was formed with representatives from all the major parties - Nationals, Labour, Greens and New Zealand First - and, for the most part, they're in agreement about the way forward.
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Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
A Dutch non-profit has developed a giant U-shaped barrier that will scoop up plastic waste.
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Environment Minister Melissa Price
With the separation of the energy and environment portfolios, responsibility for reducing carbon emissions falls to Environment Minister Melissa Price.
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Saving the devils
There are scientists all around the world trying to save the Tasmanian Devil from extinction. We meet two of them.
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