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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Petra Stock |Graham Readfearn
Usually hardy trees and shrubs are dying, waterways have turned to dust and ecologists fear local freshwater fish extinctions could be coming as historic dry conditions grip parts of South Australia. Large swathes of the state – including the Adelaide Plains, the Fleurieu, Yorke and Eyre peninsulas and upper south-east – have seen the in the 14 months since February 2024, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Petra Stock
A major industrial gas company in Australia will shift its power use away from fossil fuels and instead meet nearly half its electricity needs across three states from solar. BOC, owned by global gas and engineering company Linde, supplies speciality gases to large manufacturers, industry and oxygen to hospitals.
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2 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Petra Stock
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Petra Stock
About 90% of the nuclear generation capacity the Coalition proposes to build would not have access to enough water to run safely, according to a report commissioned by Liberals Against Nuclear. The report authored by Prof Andrew Campbell, a visiting fellow at the Australian National University, assessed nuclear energy’s water needs and the available supply across the seven sites where the Coalition has proposed new reactors.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Petra Stock
The bogong moth was once so abundant it was mistaken for weather. During Sydney’s Olympic Games in 2000, a swarm of bogong moths attracted by stadium lights was so huge that meteorologists mistook it for a rain cloud. But the species known as “deberra” in Taungurung language – an insect with deep cultural and ecological importance, but which is smaller and lighter than a paperclip – has not returned to those numbers since the population collapsed by up to 99.5% in the two years before 2019.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Kalenderian |Camilla Hannan |Lisa Favazzo |Shelley Hepworth |Petra Stock |Sanjana Jose
Deberra, as the insects are known in the Taungurung language, are a vital food source for animals across Victoria's alpine country — so their rapid decline has implications for the entire ecosystem. The bogong moth is one of the more than 2,000 Australian species listed as being under threat in what scientists are calling an extinction crisis
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2 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Petra Stock
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Petra Stock
Wildlife detection dogs successfully sniffed out 13 critically endangered earless dragons in previously unknown burrows in Melbourne’s west, after a training program launched by Zoos Victoria in 2023. The Victorian grassland earless dragon – Australia’s most imperilled reptile – had not been seen for 50 years and was thought extinct before its remarkable rediscovery on privately owned grassland in 2023.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Kalenderian |Camilla Hannan |Lisa Favazzo |Adam Morton |Lisa Cox |Shelley Hepworth | +4 more
Australia is facing an extinction crisis. Over the next week, we will bring you stories of hope, resilience and determination as passionate volunteers across Australia stand up for Australia’s endangered species. Most parliamentarians might be surprised to learn it, but Australians care about nature. Late last year, the not-for-profit Biodiversity Council commissioned a survey of 3,500 Australians to gauge what they thought about the environment.
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2 weeks ago | 
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