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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SENSE: Emily Parsons-Lord
Sydney artist Emily Parsons-Lord makes installations about the invisible: air. So how does she do it, and what can we see?
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Shadow Defence Minister Richard Marles on the #TrumpKimSummit
How significant is the agreement signed by US President Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un for regional security?
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What to expect from the #TrumpKimSummit
Could this historic meeting between the leaders of the US and North Korea mark the beginning of a new era?
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Researchers use genetic testing to reveal more about the endangered whale shark
Whale sharks spend winter in the Ningaloo Reef region on the remote north-western coast of Australia, an area with 500 times less debris than the Port of Melbourne.
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Environment & Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg on World Environment Day
Origin Energy has announced it's reducing power prices for customers in NSW, Queensland and South Australia.
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Supermarket giants aim to reduce waste
The announcement comes ahead of legislation banning the use of lightweight plastic bags in Western Australia and Queensland.
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The Long Now: what will life be like in 10,000 years?
If a clock ticks for 10,000 years will anybody be there to hear it?
Long term thinking...
come on...
let's do this.
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Small reef fish - born athletic champions
Jodie Rummer and Adam Downie are putting fish through their paces in their lab hoping to discover how reef fish develop their athletic abilities, so early in their lives.
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Carbon capture and storage places costs and risks with all future generations
The Australian government proposes to fund research into carbon capture and storage.
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High hopes for double the hit from solar cells
From Canberra to Wellington via Cambridge. Nathaniel Davis is taking his solar research to New Zealand.
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'Food Fighter': One woman's battle against food waste
OzHarvest founder, Ronni Khan's fight to reduce food waste is the subject of a new documentary.
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Sunshine and seaweed
The humble seaweed is enlisted in the fight against climate change.
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Engineering climate change
The science toolkit to cool the planet from geo-engineering to growing seaweed and protecting nature for human health.
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Cooling the planet
Is it time for radical action to combat climate change?
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Government considers genetic modification in fight against feral cats
The technology would be used to develop cats that only produce male offspring but scientists acknowledge there are risks in developing genetically modified cats.
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Risky business at Macquarie Bank
A new investigation by Background Briefing and 7.30 has found Macquarie took big risks with its clients' money and earnt a lot of fees in the process.
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Whale rescue operation resumes at Bondi
Yesterday, a whale-watching company spotted the 10-metre-long humpback entangled in fishing rope several kilometres off Sydney's coast.
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Road trip to future travel
130 years ago one woman went on the first road trip and made history. Is it time for another change in transportation?
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CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer Doudna, and debating the ethics of gene editing
CRISPR – the new technique to manipulate genes. It's big. And so are the ethical question it raises. CRISPR's co-inventor Jennifer Doudna, a geneticist and an environmental activist on the ethics of this revolutionary technology.
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