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City goes wild as natives struggle on in strangest of places
Richard Macey Native wildlife is clinging to survival around Sydney, despite habitats being cleared for development or shelled by the army.
Government places ban on red gum logging
Brian Robins STATE POLITICS Logging of Riverina red gums will stop from the middle of the year, in a pre-election about-face from a state government keen to bolster its environmental credentials.
Sydney's coldest June day in seven years
Cloud arrived in Sydney this morning just in time to make for a cold and grey Saturday.
Sydney snares park conservation event
Heath Aston SYDNEY will host a conservation conference, to be announced just weeks after the state government opened 79 national parks to hunting of feral pests.
Sydney wakes to bitterly cold morning
Steve Jacobs Residents across south-eastern Australia have woken to a bitterly cold morning with frost biting hard across the region.
Anti-litter lobby slowly cleaning up in fight for container deposit scheme
Matthew Moore AFTER 23 years of debate, anti-litter campaigners say Australia is the closest it has ever been to adopting a national container deposit scheme where a refundable 10ยข deposit is added to the cost of...
Rain swamps Sydney for long weekend
Steve Jacobs Sydney has been drenched since yesterday, receiving its heaviest June fall in five years.
Scientists use cane toads' own toxin against them
Scientists say they have found the best weapon yet to eradicate cane toads from isolated areas - using the amphibians' own toxin against them.
Venus fly-by a glimpse of history
Bridie Smith Venus to appear as tiny black disc on the sun's surface - and it won't happen again until December 2117.
Credits lost in tangle of Aceh's forest
In 2007, young Australian entrepreneur Dorjee Sun began a mission to save the world.
Soaking for east coast
Parts of the east coast have been getting a soaking as showers become more widespread and heavy in places, bringing the most rainfall in a month.
Possum magic: national park sightings suggest glider is back after bushfires
Ben Cubby EIGHTEEN years after huge bushfires destroyed much of the Royal National Park, the area's biggest native mammal has finally returned.
Summer rain not all bad news as state expects a big winter harvest
Saffron Howden LONG after the floods swallowed country towns and water poured across the state's farmland, Trevor Loveridge is still tackling the weeds that invaded his sodden paddocks and fixing the ruts that...
Mass panic as quake triggers tsunami alerts
Michael Bachelard A MASSIVE earthquake struck beneath the ocean south-west of Indonesia's Aceh province last night, prompting tsunami warnings as far away as India, Sri Lanka, South Africa and Thailand.
Farmers crack the free range code
Tim Barlass Chickens will be farmed at 20,000 birds a hectare - 13 times more crowded than the current code - and still qualify as ''free range'' under changes to egg industry standards to be introduced this...
HRL freezes Latrobe Valley power station plans after legal ruling
Adam Morton Plans for a new coal and gas-fired power station in the Latrobe Valley are put on ice after a legal ruling that it cannot be built until a deal is struck to shut an existing coal plant.
Macey wows bear pit as MP makes plea for koalas
Josephine Tovey The bear pit went gaga over a visit from a koala today as the opposition called for the animals to be added to the national threatened species list.
Koalas to be listed as threatened amid rapid decline
Ben Cubby KOALAS are expected to be listed as a threatened species across parts of Australia from Monday, and some environment groups claim the government has excluded the marsupial from protection in certain...
Code red: auditors swoop on high-risk pollution breaches
Josephine Tovey A CHEMICAL plant in Matraville storing its hazardous materials without adequate safeguards was among 14 ''code red'' breaches discovered in an unprecedented audit of industries across the state...