Environment Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Tom Morton continues his report of struggles against coal on three continents as local people fight to protect, homes, farmlands and forests.
Tom Morton visits Germany, India and northern NSW where plans are underway for new and bigger coal mines. Local people are fighting back, to save their traditional lands, their ancient villages, animal corridors and rich agricultural lands, all of which are threatened by the ongoing march of coal.
We're keeping tabs on barramundi; the Yandina farmers market explodes in a riot of colour; we meet a young woman with a passion for her hairy belted galloways; and we do the rounds during lambing time
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How long until we can send someone to the newly discovered earth-like planet, Proxima b? RN Drive puts the latest science news through the Research Filter.
Corruption in many Pacific countries appears endemic, the Pacific has the world’s fastest growth rate of HIV infection and the Pacific is predicted to surpass Africa as the world’s poorest region in the foreseeable future
Is the Pacific not sinking but being sunk?
Corruption in many Pacific countries appears endemic, the Pacific has the world’s fastest growth rate of HIV infection and the Pacific is predicted to surpass Africa as the world’s poorest region in the foreseeable future
Is the Pacific not sinking but being sunk?
Activists and scientists around the world agree with Sheila Watt-Cloutier: 'You save the Arctic, you save the planet'.
Water is pumped using power from a renewable source, from a low level to a high level and stored. The water acquires potential energy. When released, it drives turbines and generates hydro electricity.
Standard silicon cells only capture infra red light. But there is more energy in other wavelengths hitting solar panels. New materials will capture this light and boost the output of solar cells.
Plastic is a problem. Rh Fitri Faradilla at UNSW is looking for a replacement material, strong and safe, one which will easily break down without causing harm.
Specific temperature-related calls made in the final days before hatching alters the behaviour of the developing chick.
There are fewer numbats than there are pandas or orangutans in the world, and keeping the captive breeding numbats in peak condition is a full time job.
It's been a year since the Iranian nuclear deal was reached. Was it worth it? What if anything has changed in not only Iran but across the Middle East?
A project enlisting citizen scientists to identify Australian wildlife is helping conservation, and reconnecting people with nature. And we follow the day of a scientist through Snapchat.
A fleet of solar-powered drones promise internet connectivity to the developing world — but do they come with a catch?
Former US Secretary of Defence, William J. Perry, warns that the risk of nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was during the Cold War and is growing every year.
In the far south-west of New South Wales we meet a team of environmental rangers who are trying to bring country back to life by coaxing animal populations back, constructing 'fish hotels' to keep the fry safe from predators and protecting cultural heritage sites.
Jodie Rummer is modelling scenarios for the world’s oceans by the end of the century and investigating whether and how fish might be able to adapt to warmer waters.
Bob Beale says the Earth is sending strong messages that things are seriously out of balance.
Prior to 1956, women were banned form being in Antarctica. Today women lead major research institutes in Antarctic science.
Behind the scenes at Perth Zoo is a room full of small glass aquariums. And within each enclosure is one of Australia's rarest marsupials. The dibbler.
This week it's all about climate - from the parched Queensland channel country, to rural communities building their own renewable energy projects.
Climate change plots, characters and product placement could fire audiences to act on climate change.
David Attenborough has become a household name having taken viewers to every part of the globe, sharing the intimate workings of the natural world. As he celebrates his 90th birthday, David reflects on his life on Earth, the changes he has observed, and the challenges that confront a world full of people.
The ABC’s citizen science project allows everyone to join in the identification of a million wild animals.
It is covered in flamboyantly coloured sausages, it’s a hermaphrodite, breathes through its skin, goes through metamorphoses AND this new species needs a name.
Four seasons just aren't enough for some people. Tim Entwisle's come up with 'Sprinter' and, with Matthew Crawford, he investigates some harbingers of the new season — native orchids and migrating cuckoos.
German consumers and farmers are trying to understand each other better, thanks to the push toward sustainable agriculture.
Telstra's chief scientist says driverless cars are coming, and that they'll force a rethink about how we design our roads.
New innovative software combined with local generation and storage is changing the way we generate, use, buy and sell electricity.
The largest rodent in Australia is amphibious, fulfils the same niche as an otter and could be used to get rid of the pest black rat. AND, it's got a golden, fluffy belly. It's the water rat.
ABC Science journalist Bernie Hobbs takes us through the latest stories - in this case how fire that brought warmth and comfort to early humans may also have triggered the emergence of deadly tuberculosis and how Jupiter's Great Red 'Hot Spot' may explain atmospheric mystery.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has announced a radical new plan to rid the country of pests.
Identifying the microbes and knowing their distribution will be one more important step in understanding the carbon cycle, and of monitoring and predicting emissions of greenhouse gases.
Reports of health effects from wind farms do not match where wind farms are found. Other factors are at play. Fiona Crichton explains.
At UNSW, researchers are investigating the economics and practicalities of e-waste recycling saving the embodied energy, and keeping rare resources, skills and jobs in Australia.
Imagine Melbourne without the bay, Perth without the beach and Sydney without the Harbour.
Imagine if there was no standing water in your town.
Can we trust a computer to choose between running over a child or crashing into a wall? This is just one of many ethical issues that arise with autonomous cars.
Eleven endangered southern brown bandicoots have been translocated to Booderee National Park. They haven't been seen in the area since World War One.
ABC Science journalist Bernie Hobbs takes us through the latest stories - in this case how naphthalene (from mothballs) can aid in the dream of quantum computing, and a new data mine of global diversity shows many biomes are desperately unsafe.
Steven Freeland outlines the case for new international laws to deal with crimes against the environment during war.
PHD student David Kainer believes the energy density of oils drawn from biomass and foliage of species like Mallee is not only fit for aircraft fuel, it could be grown and harvested sustainably.
This year, the Great Barrier Reef has been hit by the most severe coral bleaching event on record, with climate change causing an increase in ocean temperatures. This has compounded existing strains on the reef with poor water quality, increasing industrial development, unsustainable fishing practices and other pressures causing a decline in corals and other marine animals.