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Environment & Climate
Tree deaths finally lead to St Kilda salt investigation after huge delay
More than 12 months after residents expressed major concerns their trees were dying from high salt levels, a government investigation into the issues will finally begin.
Global giants pitch ideas for SA’s hydro plant
SA’s $593m hydrogen hub has taken a huge step forward and now involves international manufacturing giants.
‘Next to impossible’: Labor at odds over SA river rip-off
Tanya Plibersek’s grim prediction on SA’s Murray water deal ignores the most effective ways to stop eastern state waste, her SA counterpart says.
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More money for home battery owners
Changes to the electricity market mean people will be able to earn cash more easily from their household batteries. Here’s how.
Why Adelaide needs a drastic tree change
The city’s “phenomenal” loss of old trees must stop if it’s to realise a dream of winning a rare international honour, experts say.
Call for statewide ban on yabbie traps to save platypus
South Australia’s efforts to revive platypus populations can only seriously succeed if popular nets are outlawed, conservationists say.
Sun and wind snuff out Torrens Island
SA’s biggest power station is starting to close but the government says the lights will stay on in the state as cheap renewables take over.
Water sacrifice ‘inevitable’ for River Murray
Irrigators will have to make economic sacrifices, some say, to help improve the River Murray’s health, amid worries about securing Basin Plan water.
Look who might be coming back to the Torrens
They’ve been extinct in the wild on mainland SA since the 1970s – but now we could one day see platypus in the Torrens again.
Controversial Gillman energy facility scrapped
In the latest chapter of a long-running saga, plans to build a major renewable energy facility at Gillman have been scrapped.
Mining giant ‘sucking life out of SA’s vanishing springs’
A probe into the destruction of WA’s Juukan Cave has heard another miner is among businesses killing one of SA’s natural and cultural marvels.
Adelaide’s green hub to be envy of the world
Nearly $500m, including money from an Australian billionaire and an enormous uni grant, will be pumped into two clean energy research centres.
Joyce snubs Murray, as farmers issue warning
The Murray was already displaying symptoms of low flows and developing navigation threats, say SA irrigators, after another shock from Canberra.
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