Weather experts have labelled a recent heavy downpour in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains as an exceptional rainfall event.
The National Parks and Wildlife Service is still assessing damage caused to trails after heavy rain hit alpine areas early last month.
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The Northern Territory Health Department says the Top End needs to prepare for an “enormous wave” of mosquitoes.
The department says an unusually wet October and very high tides have created perfect breeding conditions for saltmarsh mosquitoes.
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With tree plantings in Australia’s biggest city Sydney and gardening near its iconic Bondi Beach, hundreds took part Sunday in what organisers say will be the world’s biggest day of climate change action.
The 10/10/10 event known as the “Global Work Party” kicked off in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific and is set to spin its way across the globe via more than 7,000 community events in 188 countries.
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The new Federal Environment Minister is under pressure to deliver some form of protection for the koala.
Former minister Peter Garrett had indicated the koala may be listed as “conservation dependent” and was expected to confirm that by the end of this month.
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Police in Newcastle have arrested two environmental activists who had tied themselves to machinery in the city’s coal port to protest against the coal industry’s impact on climate change.
More than 50 members of the group Rising Tide Newcastle broke into three coal terminals. Of the group, 36 sat on a huge pile of coal beneath infrastructure that is known as a stacker/reclaimer on Kooragang Island.
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Video Report: The drought breaking rain over Eastern Australia is having an unwelcome and potentially devastating side effect. Farmers in four states are bracing themselves for a plague of locusts.
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EXCELLENT growing conditions have raised the prospect of the best winter crops ever harvested in NSW, valued at $2.8 billion.
But the looming threat of “biblical” numbers of locusts ravaging an area the size of Spain remains a huge headache for rural communities in three states.
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The worst locust plague in 30 years is expected to hit regional New South Wales in the coming weeks, and the State Government has begun measures to control the outbreak.
Warmer than usual temperatures in the west have experts predicting that locusts will hatch in vast numbers around Warren, Coonamble, Brewarrina and Bourke by mid-August.
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There is a warning the spring locust plague could be the worst on record due to the increasing use of modern farming methods.
A central west New South Wales agronomist says direct drilling to sow crops in the western region has not destroyed the egg beds and the tall, dry pasture will make it almost impossible to detect hatchings.
Forbes district agronomist Graham Falconer says time is running out to check for signs of the pest.
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The smallest Pacific island nations, some of which fear being swamped by rising sea levels due to climate change, said Tuesday they had seen little of the global funding promised to combat the problem.
Meeting in Port Vila ahead of a broader two-day Pacific Islands Forum which begins Wednesday, the leaders of some of the world’s tiniest states admitted their voice on the issue was often lost.
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There has been a security breach at Parliament House in Brisbane, with protesters getting through security to unfurl a large banner from the roof.
A rally organised by Friends of the Earth drew hundreds of farming families and environmentalists to Queensland Parliament.
They called for Premier Anna Bligh to come outside to hear their concerns about coal mining and extractive gas industries.
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Video Report: Farmers in Kogan on Queensland’s Darling Downs say contamination from the coal gasification trials has spread to their waterways. Mercury is not used in the gasification process.
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The Australian Plague Locust Commission predicts locust eggs will begin hatching in north-west Victoria from late September, causing millions of dollars of damage to crops.
Sydney University’s Dr Greg Sword says by tracking swarm movement, pesticides to control them can be used more efficiently.
“We are collaborating with the Australian Plague Locust Commission and the Centre for Autonomous Aerial Systems to develop autonomous aerial systems; basically, aerial drones that would be capable of tracking individual insects on the ground as they march in these migratory bands,” he said.
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A new study says Australia’s water supply problems are only going to get worse as the population soars towards 45 million by mid-century.
The report by Australia’s major water utilities estimates demand for water will increase by almost 1 trillion litres by 2056 based on a population of 31 million people.
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A WILD storm in southeast Queensland on Friday afternoon has left more than 8,000 homes without power.
The hardest hit area was the Sunshine Coast and Caboolture/Redcliffe area where some 5000 homes were affected.
More than 100 lighting strikes were recorded and there were reports of local flash flooding. Read More / Watch Video »
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There’s been a record drain on electricity as people in Perth tried to escape the heat today.
The temperature in the city hit 42.7C about 12:40pm (AWST).
Western Power says air conditioners and big-screen TVs are to blame for the spike in electricity consumption.
Twenty transformers blew as a result of record power consumption. Read More / Watch Video »
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