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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Country Drive: Live export, Corellas and Linc Energy guilty of environmental damage
Join us as we take a drive through this week's news around regional and rural Australia.
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Penguins impossible to hate
The tiniest of Australia's penguins were once victorious over development at Phillip Island in Victoria.
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Microfactory extracts high-value products from e-waste
It’s a modular design using just 50 square metres of space featuring a high-tech furnace where metals are collected.
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Can you recycle used pizza boxes?
Under it's "National Sword" policy, China will now only accept recycling with a low contamination rate. But what does that mean?
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Tongan Olympian Pita Taufatofua's perspective on 'climate justice'
Tongan Olympian Pita Taufatofua lends his voice to the climate discussion.
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Science Friction returns weekly from April 15. Tune in and subscribe now!
Science, culture and storytelling ...with the spice added. We're back and weekly in 2018.
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'Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia'
Has Australian weather always been this way or is the increasing frequency of bushfires, storms, floods, and drought due to climate change?
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Saving the Bell's turtle and farmers get the 'keep fit' message
A dog helps save an endangered turtle; farmers get the keep fit message; a calf and a camel make friends on the Nullabor; and bullocky Craig Lockwood yokes up his team.
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A Foreign Affair: China, North Korea and Australia
The developments and set backs in foreign affairs for the month of March.
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Warm data, innovative electric transport and “fossil free steel”
Green innovation comes in many forms. And promising project don't have to be big, they only have to make a start.
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Taking control of what you own
Do you have any input into the design of the products you buy and consume day-to-day? Your phone, laptop, clothes, even your food?
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Blimp used to spot sharks
Lifeguards on one NSW south coast beach are being assisted by a blimp on which is mounted a camera, and learning software, allowing sharks to be spotted without the use of human eyes.
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A Big Country 31 March 2018
A dog helps save an endangered turtle; farmers get the keep fit message; a calf and a camel make friends on the Nullabor; and bullocky Craig Lockwood yokes up his team.
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The Sacred and the political
Women in the Church, Indigenous Christianity, The Stations of the Cross, and working for peace and against nuclear war.
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Floating sun shield could protect reef from bleaching, researchers say
The biodegradable shield is made from the same materials found in sea sand and coral skeletons and the world-first technology could be deployed wherever it's needed.
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Thinking small
Understanding the human condition has been the province of many disciplines, but you wouldn’t necessarily expect microbiology to be among them. Think again!
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Thinking small
Understanding the human condition has been the province of many disciplines, but you wouldn’t necessarily expect microbiology to be among them. Think again!
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Triaging conservation of endangered species
This week the last male northern white rhino died in Kenya. With his passing, the prospects of survival for the sub-species are almost non-existent as there are only two remaining females.
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Historian Grace Karskens
Historian Grace Karskens on reconnecting the early history of the Hawkesbury-Nepean River with the landscape.
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The Wrap: White South African farmers, Cambridge Analytica and private nature reserves
RN Drive's summary of the biggest stories of the week, plus some you may have missed.
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