Outdoors stories about animals, climate, weather, built, farming, sea and resources
The Gosford waterfront will undergo a $41 million transformation under the new State Budget starting with one-kilometre boardwalk. The 4.5 metre wide boardwalk will connect Gosford to Point Clare for pedestrians and cyclists running adjacent to the railway line over […]
El Nino is on the cards to return this winter with the US and Japan authorities join Australia in warning it is coming back. Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) long-term forecasts for July-September shows below-average rainfall is expected for southern Australia
The Sydney Opera House will be getting louder for longer as the NSW Government puts neighbouring residents on notice about noise complaints. The specific changes are among more general ones that were announced to boost Sydney’s night and entertainment economy.
Drivers across Moreton Bay need to slow down this winter to protect wildlife that are already in greater danger from drivers, says local council. Moreton Bay City Council says that every week, there are 8.8 million vehicle movements in their
A new 60-metre beach is to be added to a seawall on Brisbane’s Redcliffe Peninsula as local council moves to shore up longer-term protection against coastal erosion. The million project at Woody Point is one of four such on the
Cooling beaches is helping Moreton Bay’s loggerhead turtles to produce more males and possibly avoid breeding themselves into extinction. Ahead of World Turtle Day on Sunday, May 23, council announced another successful turtle nesting season. With six of the world’s
New data centres rolling out across the country will derail the country’s switch to renewable energy, a new report says. And Greenpeace wants a national moratorium on centre approvals until safeguards can be put in place. The report from Greenpeace
Douglas Shire officials are pinning new hopes on the marine industry boosted by new funding from the Queensland Government. The state is giving $300,000 to Douglas Shire Council to carry out a scoping study into a proposed marine precinct at
South Australia’s gas supply challenge will not be answered simply by lifting a fracking ban two years early, one Victorian academic warns. Professor Ranjith Gamage is Director of Monash University’s Deep Earth Energy Research Lab which studies sustainable resource extraction
A CSIRO decision to cut 92 climate science jobs is likely to keep Australians in the dark and be felt beyond these shores, critics say. The agency announced the cuts yesterday (May 21) despite a recent federal budget allocation of
