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679Farmers hail Midlands Water Scheme start
Tasmania’s farmers are elated that the Midlands Water Scheme is to go ahead with the announcement todaythat tenders have been awarded and...
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GM Canola buffer lifted from 5 metres to 1.1 km
Farmers would be well advised to re-consider planting GM canola after the latest development in the legal case between a WA organic...
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Bring It On – the Australian Greens Build Credibility?
On 13 April 2012, the Australian Greens announced the replacement for their indefatigable leader, the retiring Senator Bob Brown. Party elder, tenacious...
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Our beloved green rectangle: New York’s (fraught) romance with Central Park
The relationship between New Yorkers and their most famous park is more complicated than we might want to admit. Back in 1905,...
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The disinfectant aroma of burns-tainted wine
The forest industries continue to create needless, harmful smoke with their burns again this year. FT commissioned a CSIRO Report confirming already...
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‘Next month’ … and ‘APRIL’ …
Sumatra: This land was once rainforest, but has now been cleared, burned, planted, harvested and burned again What was that all about...
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The vanishing bee … and economic catastrophe
FREDERIC, Wis., May 9, 2012 — The battle of the bees and the deadly insecticides killing them en mass has taken a...
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Extinction’s toll could rival climate change
Picture: SB A new study published in the journal Nature directly compares the effects of biological diversity loss to the anticipated effects...
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Tasmania’s loss is NSW’s gain
The last UDF (no. 96 December 2011) included a country-wide survey of our State and Territory Architects. In January, Peter Poulet resigned...
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Island may be devil’s last chance
Tim Squires’ Image here A government plan to turn Tasmania’s Maria Island national park into a last refuge for the disease-plagued Tasmanian...
