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 Environment  Jacquelin - 8 days ago - cosmosmagazine.com PERTH: A quirk of nature may protect corals of Ningaloo Reef, off Western Australia, from excessive bleaching as climate change increases sea temperatures this century.
Researchers at the University of Western Australia (UWA) have found that winds blow
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 Environment  Tom - 9 days ago - abc.net.au A proposal to start a dedicated shark fishery including the waters of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is an act not dissimilar to allowing the deliberate hunting and removal of hundreds, if not thousands, of lions, leopards and cheetahs from Africa.
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 Environment  Cheryl - 11 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com DNA evidence has helped identify 113 new sharks and rays--including a skinny saw shark, a swell shark that looks like it swallowed a Frisbee, and a river shark (see photos)--scientists announced Thursday.
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 Environment Cheryl - 54 days ago - news.ninemsn.com.au A study looking into the extinction of Australia's prehistoric animals has dispelled scientific beliefs that climate change drove their disappearance.
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Sea Shepherd Prepares to Mount a Major Offensive Against Whaling
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Environment  In a Mirr - 114 days ago - youtube.com "This will be our most dramatic, most confrontational, most controversial and most effective campaign yet. We intend to save more whales next time than we did last time and that is a goal we fill confident in achieving"
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 Environment  - 134 days ago - theage.com.au The last of the chainsaws are due to fall silent as the final licence to log in the Otways expires, ending years of bitter confrontations between loggers and conservationists in the native forest 100 miles south-west of Melbourne.
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The Kimberley -- What's the Fuss? A Region as Vast as It Is Beautiful in North-West Australia, Faces Imminent Exploitation
Environment In a Mirr - 148 days ago - au.youtube.com Right now, those decisions are being made on our behalf, without consulting us. Do we want the resources exploited for the dollars and for the skysrapers they'll help build, or do we want to slow down this exploitation of the Kimberley? It's NOT inevitabl
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 Environment  Cher - 166 days ago - forests.org Australia's new "climate friendly" government preaches global forest protection for climate benefits internationally, while continuing to industrially clear its own native primary forests in Tasmania and elsewhere, and this unseemly hypocrisy must end
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 Environment  John - 202 days ago - bymnews.com One of the most spectacular natural events in Western Australia - the annual mass autumn spawning of corals - will occur off parts of the coast in the last week of March.
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 Environment  Chrissy - 229 days ago - news.com.au DRINKING bottled water is so anti-environment that it should be made as unfashionable as smoking. A British study has found that drinking a bottle of water has the same impact on the environment as driving a car a kilometre.
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 Environment Jacquelin - 232 days ago - news.com.au SCIENTISTS predict the Great Barrier Reef faces four possible scenarios by 2050 with everything from a "catastrophic" climatic event to global warfare.
CSIRO project leaders Iris Bohnet and Erin Bohensky this week warned the future of the Reef largely
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 Environment Chrissy - 245 days ago - news.com.au CLEAN Up Australia has urged governments across the nation to follow the example of South Australia and introduce a national drinks container refund scheme. The organisation's annual rubbish report, released today, showed nearly 40 per cent of the 8000 to
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 Environment  Tony - 249 days ago - seashepherd.org The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship Steve Irwin is enroute back to Melbourne from the Southern Ocean. And the ship is not returning alone. "We continue to be pursued by the Japanese vessel Fukuyoshi Maru No. 68," said Captain Paul Watson.
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 Environment Chrissy - 257 days ago - abc.net.au South Australian irrigators have reacted angrily to the Murray-Darling Basin Commission's decision to release environmental water flows onto the Chowilla floodplain in the Riverland.
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 Environment Chrissy - 258 days ago - news.theage.com.au More than four gigalitres of water will be released down the Murray River to protect significant 200-year-old river red gums and wetland areas hit by the drought. The Murray-Darling Basin Commission (MDBC) said 2.6gl would be released into the Chowilla
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