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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.
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Mammals to return to Sturt National Park and a mushroom-led recovery
Sturt National Park prepares for an animal release; making the switch from cows to chooks; a disability support group grows organic oyster mushrooms; and raw honey straight from the hives.
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Cape York land clearing won't impact Great Barrier Reef, Entsch says
Entsch said both State and Federal studies show land clearing won't accelerate the runoff of pollution and sedimentation into the Great Barrier Reef.
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Environmental groups warn Queensland land clearing threatens reef
The Federal Government has taken a big step towards approving the project.
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Cockatoo wail, fledge or fail
The wailing calls of the red-tailed black cockatoos that live in Australia's South East are being used to help change the future for the failing species.
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A Big Country 12 May 2018
Sturt National Park prepares for an animal release; making the switch from cows to chooks; a disability support group embarks on a mushroom-led recovery; and raw honey straight from the hives.
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Was Donald Trump right to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal?
The US President's announcement this week was hardly surprising - but was it the right move?
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Trees have senses too
How do trees face an incoming threat if they can't move, see, or hear?
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Country Drive: Murray Darling basin deal, mobile towers and CWA hemp cookies
Mobile towers built in wrong places, what's next for the Murray Darling basin plan, and the Country Women's Association gets behind hemp seeds
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With nature against climate change
Nature Based Solutions is an environmental approach that seeks to counter the negative effects of climate change by working with nature.
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Best laid plans: The Murray-Darling Basin in crisis (Part 2)
The Federal Senate is due to vote on major changes to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan– if it passes, it will effectively end further water recovery for the environment in the river system.
The Basin States claim we can stop water recovery now, because they have 36 engineering projects throughout the Basin which can achieve similar outcomes. But critics hotly dispute that.
In part two of our investigation into the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, reporter Sarah Dingle reveals the politicking going on behind the scenes for Australia's most expensive environmental program.
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Clean coal?
Truly clean coal technology is not a myth, argues University of Newcastle chemical engineering researcher Dr Jessica Allen.
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Night shift in a darkened forest
Listen to birds and possums communicating about land grabs, politics and sex. To celebrate International Dawn Chorus Day, this program about a forest chorus is from the Off Track archive.
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A decade ago climate experts were deeply worried. Now they are terrified - Tim Flannery
New solar powered agriculture and industrial processes are being developed. And South Australia has become a world leader as it takes up renewable energy. But with coral reefs dying before our eyes and climate changing everywhere fast, there isn’t a moment to lose.
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Country Breakfast Features
This week the battle between solar and food farming; and dry-aged mutton that tastes like chocolate!
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Australian Coral database threatened by funding uncertainty
Charlie Veron's team have compiled a major information base called 'Corals of the World', which is used by more than 20,000 researchers and scientists across the world.
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Adapting to a changing climate
The social impact of an uncertain and unpredictable climate and building cities to cope with flooding.
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The Wood Wide Web
They may not be able to walk, but trees do talk — at least to each other.
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Reef fish inherit tolerance to warming oceans, study finds
Researchers in Australia and Saudi Arabia say baby reef fish appear to have learnt how to switch off certain genes to allow them to cope with heat stress.
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