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  1. Darwin's Middle Arm precinct could be roadblocked by endangered herb
    By Jane Bardon

    The NT government is arguing its planned mega Middle Arm gas industry precinct will be needed to help shore up Australia's future fuel and energy supplies — but it has just identified that a tiny endangered herb could be growing in the way.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-29/dar

    #EnvironmentalImpacts #EnvironmentalPolicy #StateandTerritoryGovernment #HerbGrowing #EndangeredandProtectedSpecies #Plants #OilandGas #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #Habitats #UrbanDevelopmentandPlanning #EnergyIndustry #JaneBardon

  2. Breaking: Government sues 3M Australia over PFAS contamination
    By Bruce MacKenzie and Xanthe Gregory

    The Commonwealth is suing the manufacturer of a firefighting foam containing PFAS chemicals that contaminated 28 Defence bases across Australia.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-28/fed

    #FederalGovernment #EnvironmentalImpacts #Courts #BruceMacKenzie #XantheGregory

  3. Modelling suggests 'second wave' of algal bloom in Spencer Gulf
    By Emma Pedler, Duncan Bailey, and Jenae Madden

    Modelling predicts that the algal bloom that has plagued South Australia's coastlines since March 2025 will be moving further through the Spencer Gulf in the next few months.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-28/sec

    #MarineBiology #Oceans #RegionalCommunities #EnvironmentalImpacts #ScientificResearch #EnvironmentalManagement #ClimateChange #EmmaPedler #DuncanBailey # #JenaeMadden

  4. Modelling suggests 'second wave' of algal bloom in Spencer Gulf
    By Emma Pedler, Duncan Bailey, and Jenae Madden

    Modelling predicts that the algal bloom that has plagued South Australia's coastlines since March 2025 will be moving further through the Spencer Gulf in the next few months.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-28/sec

    #MarineBiology #Oceans #RegionalCommunities #EnvironmentalImpacts #ScientificResearch #EnvironmentalManagement #ClimateChange #EmmaPedler #DuncanBailey # #JenaeMadden

  5. Modelling suggests 'second wave' of algal bloom in Spencer Gulf
    By Emma Pedler, Duncan Bailey, and Jenae Madden

    Modelling predicts that the algal bloom that has plagued South Australia's coastlines since March 2025 will be moving further through the Spencer Gulf in the next few months.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-28/sec

    #MarineBiology #Oceans #RegionalCommunities #EnvironmentalImpacts #ScientificResearch #EnvironmentalManagement #ClimateChange #EmmaPedler #DuncanBailey # #JenaeMadden

  6. Modelling suggests 'second wave' of algal bloom in Spencer Gulf
    By Emma Pedler, Duncan Bailey, and Jenae Madden

    Modelling predicts that the algal bloom that has plagued South Australia's coastlines since March 2025 will be moving further through the Spencer Gulf in the next few months.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-28/sec

    #MarineBiology #Oceans #RegionalCommunities #EnvironmentalImpacts #ScientificResearch #EnvironmentalManagement #ClimateChange #EmmaPedler #DuncanBailey # #JenaeMadden

  7. Modelling suggests 'second wave' of algal bloom in Spencer Gulf
    By Emma Pedler, Duncan Bailey, and Jenae Madden

    Modelling predicts that the algal bloom that has plagued South Australia's coastlines since March 2025 will be moving further through the Spencer Gulf in the next few months.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-28/sec

    #MarineBiology #Oceans #RegionalCommunities #EnvironmentalImpacts #ScientificResearch #EnvironmentalManagement #ClimateChange #EmmaPedler #DuncanBailey # #JenaeMadden

  8. Legal action filed over federal government's land clearing decision
    By Roxanne Fitzgerald

    The federal environment minister's decision to wave through plans to bulldoze almost 3,000 hectares — an area 10 times the size of Sydney's CBD — of habitat, home to threatened species, will be challenged in the Federal Court.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-28/cla

    #Courts #LandClearing #EnvironmentalPolicy #EnvironmentalImpacts #Conservation #StateandTerritoryGovernment #FederalGovernment #RoxanneFitzgerald

  9. Legal action filed over federal government's land clearing decision
    By Roxanne Fitzgerald

    The federal environment minister's decision to wave through plans to bulldoze almost 3,000 hectares — an area 10 times the size of Sydney's CBD — of habitat, home to threatened species, will be challenged in the Federal Court.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-28/cla

    #Courts #LandClearing #EnvironmentalPolicy #EnvironmentalImpacts #Conservation #StateandTerritoryGovernment #FederalGovernment #RoxanneFitzgerald

  10. Legal action filed over federal government's land clearing decision
    By Roxanne Fitzgerald

    The federal environment minister's decision to wave through plans to bulldoze almost 3,000 hectares — an area 10 times the size of Sydney's CBD — of habitat, home to threatened species, will be challenged in the Federal Court.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-28/cla

    #Courts #LandClearing #EnvironmentalPolicy #EnvironmentalImpacts #Conservation #StateandTerritoryGovernment #FederalGovernment #RoxanneFitzgerald

  11. Legal action filed over federal government's land clearing decision
    By Roxanne Fitzgerald

    The federal environment minister's decision to wave through plans to bulldoze almost 3,000 hectares — an area 10 times the size of Sydney's CBD — of habitat, home to threatened species, will be challenged in the Federal Court.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-28/cla

    #Courts #LandClearing #EnvironmentalPolicy #EnvironmentalImpacts #Conservation #StateandTerritoryGovernment #FederalGovernment #RoxanneFitzgerald

  12. Legal action filed over federal government's land clearing decision
    By Roxanne Fitzgerald

    The federal environment minister's decision to wave through plans to bulldoze almost 3,000 hectares — an area 10 times the size of Sydney's CBD — of habitat, home to threatened species, will be challenged in the Federal Court.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-28/cla

    #Courts #LandClearing #EnvironmentalPolicy #EnvironmentalImpacts #Conservation #StateandTerritoryGovernment #FederalGovernment #RoxanneFitzgerald

  13. Booming cockroach numbers welcome news on this 'paradise of creatures'
    By Emma Siossian

    Researchers say the removal of invasive rodents on Lord Howe Island has sparked a rebound of invertebrate life, including native cockroaches and other insects, vital to the broader ecosystem.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-27/lor

    #Conservation #EnvironmentalImpacts #Animals #EndangeredandProtectedSpecies #EnvironmentalManagement #ScientificResearch #EmmaSiossian

  14. Scientist 'shocked' $300m irrigation scheme pushing ahead without studies
    By Emily Smith

    A $300 million irrigation scheme will supply 37.2 gigalitres of water to farming areas near Hobart from 2030. A scientists fears the taxpayer-funded scheme could put a major river at risk.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/tas

    #IrrigatedFarming #EnvironmentalImpacts #EnvironmentalManagement #EnvironmentalPolicy #WaterResources #WaterPollution #EmilySmith

  15. These aren't ants but shipping containers escaping on a massive breakaway iceberg
    By Jano Gibson

    Details of how the shipping containers ended up on a giant iceberg have been revealed in one of the more unusual reports tabled at the annual meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-23/tas

    #AntarcticResearch #RoadAccidentsandIncidents #EnvironmentalImpacts #WaterPollution #EnvironmentalManagement #JanoGibson

  16. Little penguin numbers climb on Kangaroo Island despite algal bloom impact
    By Caroline Horn

    Little penguin numbers on Kangaroo Island have rebounded, but estimates show there are only about 700 adult breeders after a harmful algal bloom.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-23/kan

    #Animals #Revegetation #Oceans #MarineBiology #MarineParks #Conservation #Pests #EnvironmentalImpacts #CarolineHorn

  17. Little penguin numbers climb on Kangaroo Island despite algal bloom impact
    By Caroline Horn

    Little penguin numbers on Kangaroo Island have rebounded, but estimates show there are only about 700 adult breeders after a harmful algal bloom.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-23/kan

    #Animals #Revegetation #Oceans #MarineBiology #MarineParks #Conservation #Pests #EnvironmentalImpacts #CarolineHorn

  18. Little penguin numbers climb on Kangaroo Island despite algal bloom impact
    By Caroline Horn

    Little penguin numbers on Kangaroo Island have rebounded, but estimates show there are only about 700 adult breeders after a harmful algal bloom.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-23/kan

    #Animals #Revegetation #Oceans #MarineBiology #MarineParks #Conservation #Pests #EnvironmentalImpacts #CarolineHorn

  19. Little penguin numbers climb on Kangaroo Island despite algal bloom impact
    By Caroline Horn

    Little penguin numbers on Kangaroo Island have rebounded, but estimates show there are only about 700 adult breeders after a harmful algal bloom.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-23/kan

    #Animals #Revegetation #Oceans #MarineBiology #MarineParks #Conservation #Pests #EnvironmentalImpacts #CarolineHorn

  20. Little penguin numbers climb on Kangaroo Island despite algal bloom impact
    By Caroline Horn

    Little penguin numbers on Kangaroo Island have rebounded, but estimates show there are only about 700 adult breeders after a harmful algal bloom.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-23/kan

    #Animals #Revegetation #Oceans #MarineBiology #MarineParks #Conservation #Pests #EnvironmentalImpacts #CarolineHorn

  21. Fracking could open the door to 10 years of gas supply but is there a risk?
    By Josh Brine and Becc Bird

    A decade's worth of gas supply for South Australia is potentially sitting below the Limestone Coast region. But will it ever be extracted?

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-23/sa-

    #OilandGas #Industry #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #Farmers #RegionalCommunities #EnergyPolicy #EnergyMarkets #EnvironmentalImpacts #JoshBrine #BeccBird

  22. Fracking could open the door to 10 years of gas supply but is there a risk?
    By Josh Brine and Becc Bird

    A decade's worth of gas supply for South Australia is potentially sitting below the Limestone Coast region. But will it ever be extracted?

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-23/sa-

    #OilandGas #Industry #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #Farmers #RegionalCommunities #EnergyPolicy #EnergyMarkets #EnvironmentalImpacts #JoshBrine #BeccBird

  23. Fracking could open the door to 10 years of gas supply but is there a risk?
    By Josh Brine and Becc Bird

    A decade's worth of gas supply for South Australia is potentially sitting below the Limestone Coast region. But will it ever be extracted?

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-23/sa-

    #OilandGas #Industry #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #Farmers #RegionalCommunities #EnergyPolicy #EnergyMarkets #EnvironmentalImpacts #JoshBrine #BeccBird

  24. Fracking could open the door to 10 years of gas supply but is there a risk?
    By Josh Brine and Becc Bird

    A decade's worth of gas supply for South Australia is potentially sitting below the Limestone Coast region. But will it ever be extracted?

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-23/sa-

    #OilandGas #Industry #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #Farmers #RegionalCommunities #EnergyPolicy #EnergyMarkets #EnvironmentalImpacts #JoshBrine #BeccBird

  25. Fracking could open the door to 10 years of gas supply but is there a risk?
    By Josh Brine and Becc Bird

    A decade's worth of gas supply for South Australia is potentially sitting below the Limestone Coast region. But will it ever be extracted?

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-23/sa-

    #OilandGas #Industry #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #Farmers #RegionalCommunities #EnergyPolicy #EnergyMarkets #EnvironmentalImpacts #JoshBrine #BeccBird

  26. Why consumers are forking out more for whiting, calamari and garfish
    By Rachael Merritt

    South Australia's peak seafood body says a short supply of some species due to the algal bloom and commercial fishing restrictions has led to slight price increases, as it warns it could take industry five to 10 years to fully recover.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-22/som

    #AlgalBlooms #EnvironmentalImpacts #FishingandAquacultureIndustry #BusinessandIndustryRegulation #RachaelMerritt

  27. Divers who faced jail for cultural fishing lead sea urchin recovery
    By Vanessa Milton and Toby Hemmings

    After decades of fighting for their traditional fishing rights, Aboriginal custodians are now fighting to save their sea country from ecological collapse.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-17/nsw

    #FishingandAquacultureIndustry #CulturalIdentity #EnvironmentalImpacts #Pests #MarineBiology #IndigenousCulture #ClimateChange #VanessaMilton #TobyHemmings

  28. Divers who faced jail for cultural fishing lead sea urchin recovery
    By Vanessa Milton and Toby Hemmings

    After decades of fighting for their traditional fishing rights, Aboriginal custodians are now fighting to save their sea country from ecological collapse.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-17/nsw

    #FishingandAquacultureIndustry #CulturalIdentity #EnvironmentalImpacts #Pests #MarineBiology #IndigenousCulture #ClimateChange #VanessaMilton #TobyHemmings

  29. Divers who faced jail for cultural fishing lead sea urchin recovery
    By Vanessa Milton and Toby Hemmings

    After decades of fighting for their traditional fishing rights, Aboriginal custodians are now fighting to save their sea country from ecological collapse.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-17/nsw

    #FishingandAquacultureIndustry #CulturalIdentity #EnvironmentalImpacts #Pests #MarineBiology #IndigenousCulture #ClimateChange #VanessaMilton #TobyHemmings

  30. Divers who faced jail for cultural fishing lead sea urchin recovery
    By Vanessa Milton and Toby Hemmings

    After decades of fighting for their traditional fishing rights, Aboriginal custodians are now fighting to save their sea country from ecological collapse.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-17/nsw

    #FishingandAquacultureIndustry #CulturalIdentity #EnvironmentalImpacts #Pests #MarineBiology #IndigenousCulture #ClimateChange #VanessaMilton #TobyHemmings

  31. Divers who faced jail for cultural fishing lead sea urchin recovery
    By Vanessa Milton and Toby Hemmings

    After decades of fighting for their traditional fishing rights, Aboriginal custodians are now fighting to save their sea country from ecological collapse.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-17/nsw

    #FishingandAquacultureIndustry #CulturalIdentity #EnvironmentalImpacts #Pests #MarineBiology #IndigenousCulture #ClimateChange #VanessaMilton #TobyHemmings

  32. The southern Sydney bay residents say is becoming a mudflat
    By Declan Bowring

    A bin that has been sticking out of the mud for 12 years has become a symbol for an ongoing issue of sediment build-up in Oyster Bay in Sydney's Sutherland Shire.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-16/oys

    #EnvironmentalImpacts #UrbanDevelopmentandPlanning #DeclanBowring

  33. The southern Sydney bay residents say is becoming a mudflat
    By Declan Bowring

    A bin that has been sticking out of the mud for 12 years has become a symbol for an ongoing issue of sediment build-up in Oyster Bay in Sydney's Sutherland Shire.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-16/oys

    #EnvironmentalImpacts #UrbanDevelopmentandPlanning #DeclanBowring

  34. The southern Sydney bay residents say is becoming a mudflat
    By Declan Bowring

    A bin that has been sticking out of the mud for 12 years has become a symbol for an ongoing issue of sediment build-up in Oyster Bay in Sydney's Sutherland Shire.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-16/oys

    #EnvironmentalImpacts #UrbanDevelopmentandPlanning #DeclanBowring

  35. The southern Sydney bay residents say is becoming a mudflat
    By Declan Bowring

    A bin that has been sticking out of the mud for 12 years has become a symbol for an ongoing issue of sediment build-up in Oyster Bay in Sydney's Sutherland Shire.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-16/oys

    #EnvironmentalImpacts #UrbanDevelopmentandPlanning #DeclanBowring

  36. The southern Sydney bay residents say is becoming a mudflat
    By Declan Bowring

    A bin that has been sticking out of the mud for 12 years has become a symbol for an ongoing issue of sediment build-up in Oyster Bay in Sydney's Sutherland Shire.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-16/oys

    #EnvironmentalImpacts #UrbanDevelopmentandPlanning #DeclanBowring

  37. Controversial Perth racetrack may cost more than promised, government concedes
    By Courtney Withers

    Despite assurances to the contrary, WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti has conceded it would be difficult for the government to stick to the $217.5 million budget for the Perth Park project.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-15/bur

    #UrbanDevelopmentandPlanning #StateandTerritoryGovernment #StateandTerritoryParliament #GovernmentandPolitics #EnvironmentalImpacts #CourtneyWithers

  38. Controversial Perth racetrack may cost more than promised, government concedes
    By Courtney Withers

    Despite assurances to the contrary, WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti has conceded it would be difficult for the government to stick to the $217.5 million budget for the Perth Park project.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-15/bur

    #UrbanDevelopmentandPlanning #StateandTerritoryGovernment #StateandTerritoryParliament #GovernmentandPolitics #EnvironmentalImpacts #CourtneyWithers

  39. Controversial Perth racetrack may cost more than promised, government concedes
    By Courtney Withers

    Despite assurances to the contrary, WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti has conceded it would be difficult for the government to stick to the $217.5 million budget for the Perth Park project.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-15/bur

    #UrbanDevelopmentandPlanning #StateandTerritoryGovernment #StateandTerritoryParliament #GovernmentandPolitics #EnvironmentalImpacts #CourtneyWithers

  40. Controversial Perth racetrack may cost more than promised, government concedes
    By Courtney Withers

    Despite assurances to the contrary, WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti has conceded it would be difficult for the government to stick to the $217.5 million budget for the Perth Park project.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-15/bur

    #UrbanDevelopmentandPlanning #StateandTerritoryGovernment #StateandTerritoryParliament #GovernmentandPolitics #EnvironmentalImpacts #CourtneyWithers

  41. Controversial Perth racetrack may cost more than promised, government concedes
    By Courtney Withers

    Despite assurances to the contrary, WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti has conceded it would be difficult for the government to stick to the $217.5 million budget for the Perth Park project.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-15/bur

    #UrbanDevelopmentandPlanning #StateandTerritoryGovernment #StateandTerritoryParliament #GovernmentandPolitics #EnvironmentalImpacts #CourtneyWithers

  42. Abandoned base's toxic waste clean-up deadline rejected
    By Jano Gibson

    The Australian government has officially ruled out cleaning up Antarctica's contaminated Wilkes Station before the end of the decade, as previously recommended by a federal parliamentary committee.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-15/wil

    #EnvironmentalImpacts #Environment #AntarcticResearch #FederalGovernment #JanoGibson

  43. Abandoned base's toxic waste clean-up deadline rejected
    By Jano Gibson

    The Australian government has officially ruled out cleaning up Antarctica's contaminated Wilkes Station before the end of the decade, as previously recommended by a federal parliamentary committee.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-15/wil

    #EnvironmentalImpacts #Environment #AntarcticResearch #FederalGovernment #JanoGibson