Avian influenza is affecting places in Australia and New Zealand on new fronts, and this time it has hit the butcher shop. Something odd is…
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Category: Environment
Ancient Fruit Fossil Found in Central Queensland Rewrites the Family Tree of a Global Plant Group
A strange fruit fossil was found near a small farming town called Capella Queensland, and it doesn’t matched with any current genus or species of…
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How a Humble Wildflower Rose From the Ashes to Capture Australia’s Heart
A relatively plain flower has won Australia’s most amazing wildflower this National Science Week and, having discovered its secret history, there is no reason to…
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WA’s Eco-Thinning Program Draws Fresh Fire as Critics Call It Native Logging in Disguise
Drive through the karri and jarrah country south of Perth (WA) and logging trucks still rumble along the highways. Years after Western Australia officially ended…
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Portland’s Beloved Elephant Seal Sammy Becomes the Face of a Growing Bird Flu Alarm
The story is about Sammy, a multi-tonne elephant seal who has spent years lounging on this stretch of coast and has, almost by accident, become…
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Dead Wild Bird at Castaways Beach Confirms Queensland’s Second H5 Avian Flu Case
A single dead seabird, found tangled in the tide line of a quiet Sunshine on Castaways Beach, has become the latest marker of how far…
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Giant SpaceX Vessel Turns Christmas Island into an Impromptu Tourist Attraction
For a tiny community more used to spotting red crabs than spacecraft, or the occasional piece of space junk on the tideline, this week has…
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Everything you need to know about Australia’s bird flu surge
Australia held out longer than anywhere else on Earth. While H5N1 tore through poultry farms, wild colonies and even dairy herds on every other continent…
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Gold Diggers Still Doubt the Case for UNESCO Recognition
Ask a weekend fossicker in Bendigo or Ballarat what they think of the push to get the Victorian goldfields onto the world stage, and you’ll…
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Early Magpie Swoops and Bare Alps Signal a Different Kind of winter for NSW
Early magpie entry in New South Wales this winter is an alarming concern. Canola paddocks were flowering weeks ahead of time, ski resorts were struggling…
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