Tasmanian Times
Environment
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1.1KTasmanian fuel reduction program an Australian first
Lilydale blanketed by burn-off smoke, March 2010 … Tasmanian communities will be safer from the threat of bushfires, with a ground-breaking new...
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Wilderness Draft Plan should be withdrawn
The Wilderness Society, Australian Conservation Foundation and Environment Tasmania have made the attached submission on the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area Draft...
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Wotif founder Graeme Wood takes stake in battery storage developer Redflow
Graeme Wood, the founder of online accommodation booking site Wotif and a major donor to climate and clean energy initiatives, has emerged...
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From unused pool to ecosystem cool
*Pic: Ann Jones’ pic of a backyard pool turned into a natural haven … There are over 1.2 million homes in Australia...
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Greedy Californians are almost out of water
Residents acknowledge the problem — and the potential disaster it could cause — and then go about wasting more of the precious...
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Researchers raise concerns over underwater Totten Glacier melt
WARM seawater sloshing around the base of one of Antarctica’s largest glaciers could cause sea levels to rise faster than anticipated, according...
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Gunns: The Wall of Silence. Sawmiller cash referred to Integrity Commission
Senator WHISH-WILSON (Tasmania) (22:00): I rise to talk this evening on the recent release of an extraordinary book, the first of its...
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Entropy …
It was Bob Burton – Tasmania’s best and most intelligent investigative journalist in my not-so-humble view – who first suggested that Tasmanian...
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Tasmania missing $2.8bn opportunity for big clean energy exports
Several factors combined to deliver seemingly astonishing reductions in Australian electricity sector emissions over the carbon tax years. With those gains now...
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Another Super Trawler heading to Australia
*Pic: Flashback to 2013 … The Margiris … rebadged Abel Tasman … The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, is joining members...
