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Australian container return schemes are a booming good news story
Unlike efforts to recycle soft plastics, container deposit schemes have been a success across Australia, with billions of bottles recycled.
- by Nick O'Malley and Bianca Hall
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Humpbacks are an Australian success story. They have two advantages that most whales don’t
It’s peak hour on the humpback highway off the east coast of Australia – yet other whale species aren’t doing nearly as well.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Silencers, night vision and cultural hunting: Shooters Party reveals its demands
A new body stacked with shooters would push for more access to public land, under a proposal being considered by the NSW government.
- by Nick O'Malley
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Endangered species
There were no known sightings of this critically endangered animal outside Victoria. Now it’s in NSW
Hello, possum! Thought to be extinct in NSW, a Leadbeater’s possum has been discovered in Kosciuszko National Park.
- by Bianca Hall and Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The aphrodisiac that unlocked the secret sex life of snails
Fifteen specimens of a species of Norfolk Island snail thought to be extinct until 2020 have multiplied into 800 over four years in a captive breeding program.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Pollution
The grime balls were a symptom of an ailing sewerage network. The cure could be to drink recycled water
Sydney Water is proposing to add purified recycled drinking water – effluent that has been highly treated back to drinking standard – to Sydney’s tap water supply.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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How To Poison a Planet
Revealed: The icky reason behind build-up of forever chemicals in Sydney catchment
NSW has the highest proportion of residents with cancer-causing PFAS chemicals - news which coincides with revelations that wastewater treatment plants are allowed to release treated effluent into rivers and creeks in the Warragamba catchment.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Brumby cull
After the cull: How Kosciuszko is slowly stirring back to life
After the NSW government adopted the controversial policy of shooting wild horses from the air, the alpine national park is beginning to recover.
- by Nick O'Malley
Underwater footage reveals the terrible cost of industrial fishing
Methods such as long lining and bottom trawling are responsible for horrifying levels of bycatch, including nearly half a million threatened blue sharks.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The devastation of bottom trawling
Never-before-seen footage featured in David Attenborough documentary Ocean.
MPs call for state government to end its ‘fiscally irrational’ logging
After a government-owned logging company suffered another loss in its native forest operations, crossbenchers again call for the logging to end.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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