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AM 10 Feb 2012

A guide to sunscreens which contain nanoparticles is being recalled, after new research which shows information in the guide may be inaccurate. The environment group Friends of the Earth says consumers now have no way of know… More

Matthew Wright 9 Feb 2012
7.30 9 Feb 2012
Sara Phillips 6 Feb 2012

The amount of Sun that shines on the Earth is part of a delicate balancing act with our energy use. Nuclear, of all things, could muck it up. More

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"solar power is not going to prevent humanity from mining the crap out of the planet. It's not going to stop us from destroying natural habitats" - SCIPD
Lateline 9 Feb 2012
Science Online 9 Feb 2012
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Pacific Beat Stories 6 Feb 2012
Stephen Luntz 30 Jan 2012
Sea spurge scourge

Sea spurge scourge

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News Online 10 Feb 2012

Emergency Services Minister Neil Roberts says the Defence Force is making good progress in the flood clean-up of the towns of Mitchell and Roma in Queensland's southern inland. More

News Online 10 Feb 2012

Emergency Services Minister Neil Roberts says the Defence Force is making good progress in the flood clean-up of the towns of Mitchell and Roma in Queensland's southern inland. More

News Online 10 Feb 2012

Emergency services rescued about 20 people in Sydney's west and the Illawarra overnight as torrential rain brought flash flooding. More

News Online 10 Feb 2012

More water officials are due to be scrutinised today and into the weekend at the Queensland floods inquiry in Brisbane, as the commission tries to work out whether it has been misled. More

News Online 10 Feb 2012

Opponents of a proposed gold mine near Braidwood in southern NSW have struck a deal to boost the environmental safeguards for the project. More

ABC Western Queensland 9 Feb 2012

Here are some of your stories from the Charleville, Mitchell, Augathella, Blackall, Cunnamulla and Hungerford districts as a deluge o… More

ABC Southern Queensland 9 Feb 2012

The difficult job of recovering from the flood that damaged her Mitchell home was made harder for Kyline Garland today. She told Davi… More

ABC Far North Qld 9 Feb 2012

A James Cook University researcher has helped map the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea for internet giant Google, providing more accu… More

Listen: Saved by the levee

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ABC New England North West NSW 9 Feb 2012

Locals battled with an excavator and sandbags to raise part of the Pallamallawa Levee last weekend More

QLD Country Hour 9 Feb 2012

Grants of $25 000 dollars are being made avaliable to farmers and small businesses who have been flooded but AgForce president, Brent… More

Listen: Australian army helping with flood clean up

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ABC AP APNC 9 Feb 2012

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On the Wider Web

The universe to scale

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Zoom through everything in the universe, from nebulae to gamma rays, to scale.
Australian power bills are soaring, and much of the cost is not about the actual electricity, but building the infrastructure to deal with our unchecked energy use.

Macro insects

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Malaysian photographer Lee Peiling lives and works in Tanzania. Among her body of work are these macro photographs of insects that look almost like paintings.
An artist has turned a slice of tree trunk into an LP and produced music from the tree rings

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