Outdoors stories about animals, climate, weather, built, farming, sea and resources
The new Spirit of Tasmania IV ferry has arrived at Western Australia after a six-week journey from Scotland. The 212-metre 48,000-tonne vessel departed Leith in Scotland on June 30 on its 14,857 nautical mile voyage to Hobart. Spirit IV sailed […]
The Qld Department of Environment is asking for the public’s help to identify the owner of illegally dumped tires found in a national park last week. The department is tracking the person or business who dumped more than 550 tyres
Conservation groups are firing up over the Queensland government’s mixed messages on the Great Barrier Reef and coal mining in the wake of the AIMS report. And they now want a stop to new coal mines in the Mackay-Isaac-Whitsunday region.
Queensland is currently moving to accelerate new resource projects in August including a planned graphite mine for Croydon. It is asking companies to submit expressions of interest (EOI) in infill areas adjacent to current coal and gas projects. The government
Record hard coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef helped protect it amid a worsening bleaching crisis, the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) says. In its annual survey of the Reef, it found the largest annual decline in coral
The Queensland Government is to push for higher commercial and personal catch limits for Spanish mackerel by the end of the year. The move follows a new stock assessment that the population is “now likely” to have doubled since a
