National News

Support grows for 10¢ container deposit plan

3:00 AM | WITH signs of growing support around the country for compulsory container deposit schemes, two NSW MPs have announced they will introduce legislation to ensure a 10¢ refundable deposit paid on all drink containers sold in the state.

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Climate research has a ring of truth

19 May 12 | Visiting the giant kauri trees of Northland, on New Zealand's north-west coast, is like stepping back in time.

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Ocean pest spreads to Wilsons Prom

18 May 12 | A serious marine pest considered a threat to Australian marine ecosystems and to aquaculture has been discovered at Wilsons Promontory, in the waters of Tidal River.

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Ten funniest climate change videos ever

18 May 12 | Carefully plucked like dew-covered orchids from the garden of YouTube, I hereby present the ten funniest videos about climate change which have ever been made, ever, by anyone, anywhere, ever – or at least of those I’ve seen. Which isn’t many.

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The price is right?

17 May 12 | Is Australia's carbon price too high compared with other major countries, or will it be all right in the end?

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Berowra Valley gets national park nod

14 May 12 | THE northern Sydney home of the largest owl species in the country is about to become home to something much larger.

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Fears for marine areas

14 May 12 | Ocean near World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef could be opened for oil and gas drilling.

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It's OK, the little ones have to leave home some time. And if they don't, we'll croak

12 May 12 | A foam Esky will be the unlikely vessel carrying the young of one of Australia's most endangered species from Melbourne Zoo to the alpine marshlands of Mount Kosciuszko next week.

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Coal seam plan for St Peters abandoned

11 May 12 | THE coal seam gas miner Dart Energy has announced it will not drill at St Peters in Sydney's inner west.

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Mega-cities pose climate test as consumption grows

10 May 12 | The mega-cities of Asia will be the toughest test for climate-change policy as a rising middle class begins to consume goods at rates only previously seen in the west.

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$36m ad blitz under attack

10 May 12 | The Gillard government is defending its new $36 million advertising blitz on compensation for the carbon tax, insisting pensioners and families need to know about the payments that will start to flow in coming weeks.

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Farmers reach for big guns as super weeds refuse to die

08 May 12 | FARMERS are being forced to use poisonous chemicals and revert to outdated tilling methods to cope with a growing breed of herbicide-resistant "super weeds".

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Climate sceptic ad backfires

07 May 12 | It is either a brilliantly antagonistic marketing ploy or, more likely, a remarkable misjudgment.

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'Scare tactics': Greens hit out over free range eggs plan

05 May 12 | The Greens have accused the Australian Egg Corporation of using misleading and deceptive scare tactics to advocate new voluntary standards allowing higher density stocking rates for free range hens.

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Code red: auditors swoop on high-risk pollution breaches

05 May 12 | A CHEMICAL plant in Matraville storing its hazardous materials without adequate safeguards was among 14 ''code red'' breaches discovered in an unprecedented audit of industries across the state classified as posing a serious risk to the environment.

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Journeys to the bottom of the sea

05 May 12 | Australian historian and lyrical Antarctic observer Tom Griffiths once likened Antarctica to a giant, breathing organism clamped to the base of the globe, a ''billowing creature rhythmically expanding and contracting'' from winter to summer.

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