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| UpdatedDocuments leaked to the ABC estimate the economic losses caused by an oil spill near a world heritage-listed area of Solomon Islands last year could be as high as $50 million.
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An extreme heatwave with temperatures predicted to soar above 40 degrees Celsius will move into south-east Queensland on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, the Bureau of Meteorology warns.
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| UpdatedAustralia is lagging behind in the electric vehicle market, and proposed taxes from the Victorian and South Australian governments will jeopardise our ability to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, a report has found.
Topics: science-and-technology, environment, road-transport, transport, climate-change
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About 100 pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins dead in a mass stranding on the remote Chatham Islands, about 800 kilometres off New Zealand's east coast.
Topics: environment, environmental-management, animals, disasters-and-accidents, new-zealand
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A bushfire ravages a third of the World Heritage Area of Queensland's idyllic Fraser Island, six weeks after being sparked by an illegal campfire.
Topics: bushfire, environmental-impact, disasters-and-accidents, government-and-politics, activism-and-lobbying, conservation, environment, national-parks, emergency-incidents, endangered-and-protected-species, eurong-4581, kingfisher-bay-4655, australia, hervey-bay-4655, bundaberg-4670, brisbane-4000, qld
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A three minute walk from Cavill Avenue in the centre of Surfers Paradise has become an illegal dumping hotspot, so a councillor is calling on residents to dob in a dumper.
Topics: local-government, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, environment, recycling-and-waste-management, community-and-society, community-education, surfers-paradise-4217
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| UpdatedSome island residents say new artworks proposed by the Museum of Underwater Art are culturally inappropriate and their installation will damage the reef — but most love the existing sculptures.
Topics: contemporary-art, oceans-and-reefs, indigenous-protocols, indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, travel-and-tourism, great-barrier-reef, environment, magnetic-island-4819, palm-island-4815
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Storms or tropical cyclones usually get the blame when Australia's beaches suffer severe erosion. But on the New South Wales north coast at Byron Bay, another force is at play.
Topics: environment, erosion, byron-bay-2481, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedAmong tonight's winners of the Eureka Prizes is research that is pumping up the amount of energy we can get from sewage and a citizen science project that maps coastal erosion.
Topics: science-and-technology, awards-and-prizes, science, alternative-energy, energy, climate-change, erosion, environment, recycling-and-waste-management, environmental-technology
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| UpdatedA controversial multi-billion-dollar coal seam gas project in north-west NSW, which has been touted to meet half the state's gas needs, has cleared its final hurdle and work will commence in 2021.
Topics: rural, business-economics-and-finance, industry, federal-government, energy, environment, oil-and-gas, mining-industry, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, narrabri-2390, pilliga-2388, tamworth-2340, dubbo-2830
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It is a fair bet salmon will be on many Tasmanian tables this Christmas, with anglers having taken to the water to catch fish that escaped during an aquaculture farm mishap.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, fires, fish, community-and-society, environment, environmental-impact, port-huon-7116, kettering-7155, hobart-7000, tas
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Half a kilometre of a concrete channelling will be ripped out and replaced with a natural ecosystem in an effort to rejuvenate a natural waterway in Brisbane's Stones Corner.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-health, stones-corner-4120, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedA team of researchers will look at the 50 years since saltwater crocodiles have been protected — with the population growing from 3,000 to 100,000 — to determine the predator's impact on the ecology.
Topics: environment, crocodile, academic-research, darwin-0800, nt
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The deceased is thought to be a young woman who went missing in an area about 250 kilometres south of Perth known for dangerous surf conditions and rugged shorelines.
Topics: community-and-society, death, environment, oceans-and-reefs, police, yallingup-6282, bunbury-6230
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| UpdatedVisitors to southern parts of the reef are greeted by a mass of manta rays enjoying an unusually long stay in the pristine waters, as fish continue to pamper them.
Topics: animal-behaviour, animals, environment, diving, fish, marine-biology, ecology, bundaberg-4670, lady-elliot-island-4670, gladstone-4680
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Platypuses could disappear from some rivers "without ever returning" if more is not done to protect them, scientists behind new research say.
Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, science-and-technology, animals, environment, australia
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| UpdatedMORNING BRIEFING: Venues must ditch the pen and paper and have all customers sign in digitally under new rules which come into effect today, while total fire bans are in place for parts of the north and north-west.
Topics: health, diseases-and-disorders, covid-19, law-crime-and-justice, death, workplace, accidents, community-and-society, work, disasters-and-accidents, fire-service, animals, environmental-impact, environment, nsw, albury-2640, rockdale-2216
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Greens says a plan to tax electric vehicle owners a road usage fee is a "lazy" alternative to wider reform, but a think tank says it is essential for ensuring governments can fund transport infrastructure as income from the fuel excise dwindles.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, industry, road-transport, transport, environment, vic
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| UpdatedA mostly volunteer-run centre off Gladstone celebrates a milestone 150th release, sending three green sea turtles on their way at Zilzie beach, on the Capricorn Coast.
Topics: environment, conservation, animals, oceans-and-reefs, rockhampton-4700, gladstone-4680, qld, yeppoon-4703, emu-park-4710, zilzie-4710
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| UpdatedMicroplastics have been discovered in snow samples taken from 8,440 metres up Mount Everest, and at 18 other sites on the mountain.
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| UpdatedScientists monitor the waters of the Gippsland Lakes in eastern Victoria after the mystery deaths of four endangered dolphins.
Topics: marine-biology, environment, conservation, animal-welfare, animal-behaviour, lakes-entrance-3909, sale-3850
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The number of numbats detected at a conservation site in Western Australia has leapt to 35, sparking hope among scientists that the endangered marsupial population can recover.
Topics: animals, environment, environmental-impact, animal-science, albany-6330, denmark-6333