Tasmanian Times
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1.9KAnother climate expert retreats to Tasmania
Some years ago, founder of the Gaia theory, James Lovelock, predicted that Tasmania and south New Zealand will, in time, become overrun...
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Operation Icefish: Sea Shepherd launches new Southern Ocean campaign
Tuesday September 16th, 2014 – Hobart, Australia. Following Sea Shepherd’s victory of saving 784 threatened, endangered and protected whales during the 2013/14...
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Abetz still in the woods, fighting a lost war
As Tasmania lags behind Australia, Eric Abetz is reigniting old battles. It was a strange choice of words. In June last year,...
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Venture Minerals takes aim at Rainforest Wonderland
Conservationists have been contesting the Venture Minerals/Mt Lindsay mine proposal for some time now, but one essential aspect lacking in the campaign...
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An Aurora from space
European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst took this photo of an aurora from the International Space Station, approximately 320 kilometres above the...
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Mother Mountain: The Symphony of Birdsong (29)
*Pic: Duke of Wellington, after whom Mt Wellington is named … says Don: In the year 2012/13 the mountain assumed the Aboriginal...
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A lack of leadership …
All photos of the region … by Paul Tapp I love my local community, it’s full of beautiful places and beautiful people....
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The Smell From The Swell Becomes a Communal Solution
Concomitant with the big easterly swells there are the all-pervading Tassie eastern seaboard smells … that many call the dump. Rotting sea-weed,...
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A United States biochar advocate argues for soil health ….
A visiting United States advocate of biochar says closed-loop production systems can eliminate waste, improve energy efficiency and the business bottom line....
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David v Goliath
Ever heard the parable of the little shepherd boy who knocked down a giant with one slingshot? Watch this space, because a...
