After the dust storm littered the ocean with soil, phytoplankton thrived, tripling in number in the samples taken from Sydney Harbor.

Will they still be denying in 2010? PM Rudd's political opponents the conservative liberal/nat. party (=Republican)are imploding with their refusal to accept global warming or start a carbon trading scheme)While 75% of Australians want something done

Bowing to international pressure, the Tokyo International Film Festival announced Wednesday it will screen the controversial award-winning American documentary about the annual dolphin hunt in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, at the nine-day event in October.

Sixty six children are currently being held in jail on Christmas Island. The detention arrangements in which children are kept, such as the 'construction camp' facility, is inappropriate for children even for the briefest period.

No pun intended, but it has been high time to end the war on drugs and get serious about mental healthcare, rehab clinics, and education, and in the process relieve the stigma pain patients suffer

Attaching special climbing ropes to culverts could help whitebait species to reach suitable adult breeding habitats.

More Australians are dining on kangaroo but most are unaware that the national icon is being wild harvested rather than farmed" careful harvesting, is humane and sustainable, and is good for the environment,

"It is conceivable that we could drought proof the environment more efficiently by using kangaroos for eco-tourism without the environmental impact once thought, or increase the use of kangaroo human or pet food consumption."

The study, quoted on the University of Sydney's website, has given new weight to calls for the increased use of roos for everything from eco-tourism to human and pet food consumption

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