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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Category: Environment
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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Following the Mouse Plague, Barn Owl Numbers Are Rising Across Western Australia
Sightings of barn owls have been increases in Western Australia’s Midwest and Wheatbelt. Their sudden abundance is not a coincidence. It is the direct result…
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Climate change forces family to leave behind ‘beautiful’ life in Tuvalu
Introduction Climate change has become a reality for the people of Tuvalu and is no longer a distant environmental threat. One of the islands of…
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