Tasmanian Times
Environment
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694Seafloor digi map: Graveyards revealed in very firsts digital map of seafloor
A team of researchers in Australia has mapped our planet’s seafloor in unprecedented detail with the resulting digital map showing an ocean-less...
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Carbon accounting & FT profitability
As Forestry Tasmania (FT) contemplates its future, a future free of government subsidies, its rolling 3 year production plan for native forest...
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Ta Ann, Forestry Tasmania and the loss-making Take-or-Pay Contracts
*Pic: Heart of Darkness? Matt ( [email protected] , www.matthewnewton.com.au ) Newton’s aerial shot of Ta Ann Southwood, Huon Valley, taken just last...
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Far more beautiful left standing
THERE comes a time when one has to stop looking at one’s own desires and consider what is best for the larger...
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NATION: Round 1 to Skink and Snake …
It is the title fight of the century. Skink and Snake, two obscure creatures were thrust suddenly under a national spotlight at...
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The ‘appalling consultation’ over planning scheme changes …
Single Statewide Planning Scheme will take the local out of local government planning The Tasmanian Conservation Trust is gravely concerned that the...
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UTAS VC office occupied …
A large crowd of over 100 people occupied the Vice Chancellor’s Office today. “These people are here today to tell UTAS that...
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Order emerges out of Chaos: the fundamental insight of science
A diagrammatic representation of the chaotic ‘quantum foam’ which quantum physics implies is the fundamental ground of reality below the ‘Planck Length’...
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Medical students concerned new emissions reduction target jeopardises health of Australians
The Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) has condemned the Federal Government’s emissions reduction target, slamming it as inadequate to protect against the...
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Can a hydro-power industry and a high quality tourist trout fishery ever co-exist?
I have been trout fishing the Tasmanian Central Plateau since I was a kid and for most of that time I have...
