Sustainability

Energy

Ford’s solar-powered hybrid car

FORD is unveiling a solar-powered car at an international motor show next week, and it doesn’t look like a science fiction prop!

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Conservation

Warning: There’s a new kind of super-cockroach

WE KNOW they can resist nuclear explosions but now these creepy crawlies with special new abilities have arrived in one of the world’s biggest cities.

Conservation

Scientists find fresh water…beneath the ocean

SCIENTISTS have discovered vast reserves of fresh water in a rather surprising place – beneath the ocean.

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Conservation

Trouble and stripes: why tigers will die out

A BOWL of tiger penis soup costs 300. You won’t believe how much a whole tiger penis sells for. Despite captive breeding in zoos, poaching and habitat loss mean these mighty beasts could be dying out.

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Animals

Cape Melville’s hidden wonders

THREE “dramatic new species” have been discovered in a remote Cape York rainforest located on top of large boulder fields.

OpinionHealth

Stop hating on me, I’m just a cyclist

WHAT’S with all the aggressive drivers? You think it’s OK to bully, abuse and threaten cyclists? It’s downright dangerous. Here are nine reasons you should give us a break.

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Breaking News

Carmakers bet on alternative-fuel future

HIGH-PERFORMANCE electric cars are being showcased at the Frankfurt Motor Show including luxury models from the major brands.

Costs

Aussies pull plug on green power

WE’RE being far less green and the use of renewable energy has halved, although its popularity is predicted to surge if the carbon tax is axed.

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National

Extinct Tassie tiger loses trade protection

A BAN on trading the Tasmanian tiger, the buff-nosed kangaroo rat and the pig-footed bandicoot has been lifted – they have been extinct for decades.

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Food

The world’s bees are starving. Why it matters

IF bees keep dying off it will have a direct effect on supermarket shelves and what we eat. But there is something simple you can do to stop this ecological disaster.

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Environment

A Ferrari that’s green as well as red

FERRARI unveils the world’s fastest hybrid, Kia takes mood lighting to a new level and Audi builds a car it doesn’t want you to drive at all.

Environment

The end of the world as we knew it

THE dreaded climate-change “tipping point”, when changes to weather patterns will become irreversible, has been identified. And it is terrifying.

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Travel Updates

Shocking photo of sharks under attack

A QUEENSLAND-raised photojournalist has been shortlisted for Wildlife Photographer of Year for a powerful image documenting the horrific Asian shark fin trade.

World

India bans shark ‘finning’

INDIA has banned shark ‘finning’, and anglers caught with detached fins risk up to seven years in prison.

Science

Lake ‘immune to climate change’

A UNIQUE Australian lake has remained untouched by climate change for thousands of years, say scientists.

National

Patagonian monster going on the menu

AUSTRALIA’S most dangerous catch, a monster from the deep hauled out of Antarctic waters over 4000km from mainland, is set for meal table.

Breaking News

WA devils Saxon and Vandal NSW-bound

PERTH Zoo’s Tasmanian Devils are on the move again – but this time they aren’t absent without leave.

Science

Fresh hope for Tassie devils

THEY have been driven to the brink of extinction by a contagious killer cancer. But researchers say there’s finally a reason for hope.

SA

More help needed to protect dolphins

EXPERTS are appealing for public help to protect the Port River dolphins after a series of deaths including one dolphin found with a shotgun pellet in its fin.

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Conservation

Fracking fury over Ningaloo Coast

ENVIRONMENTALISTS say Ningaloo Coast is under threat from companies that want to drill for gas using a controversial method.

World

Hillary Clinton tries to silence Bindi Irwin

PASSIONATE wildlife campaigner Bindi Irwin has gotten into a biff with one of the world’s most powerful women.

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Victoria

Furry families get that hollow feeling

SUGAR gliders, bats and even geckos have taken up residence in nesting boxes installed in forests as a part of a conservation project.

World

Anteater’s baby shock. Who’s the daddy?

AN ANTEATER has given birth at a Connecticut conservation centre, prompting officials there to wonder how the mother conceived.

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