Baird's 'war on trees' comes to Lismore and other top stories.

• Baird's 'war on trees' comes to Lismore

  

  Scene of a 2013 protest against clearing of Big Scrub rainforest at Whian Whian. Such clearing could become commonplace if new, watered down legislation is introduced, environment campaigners fear. Photo Jeff Dawson Chris Dobney A community meeting in Lismore has called on the Baird government to ‘end its war on trees’ and to increase protection for local bushland, wildlife and the climate by strengthening nature protection laws. Last Thursday’s meeting took place just hours before a walkout of..

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• Apollo 10 astronauts heard 'weird music' while on the dark side of the Moon in 1969

  

  “Weird music” heard by Apollo 10 astronauts during a trip round the dark side of the Moon in 1969 are getting a mass public airing, after Nasa had shelved the recordings for decades. The second US spaceship to orbit the Moon, Apollo 10 was the dress rehearsal for Neil Armstrong’s famous landing two months later. Recordings made while Apollo 10 was out of contact around the back of the Moon have been unearthed and will be broadcast on the new series of the Science Channel’s Nasa’s Unexplained Fi..

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• Queensland land clearing is undermining Australia's environmental progress

  

  Land clearing rates in Queensland tripled since 2010. Photo: Bill Laurance Land clearing has returned to Queensland in a big way. After we expressed concern that policy changes since 2012 would lead to a resurgence in clearing of native vegetation, this outcome was confirmed by government figures released late last year.It is now clear that land clearing is accelerating in Queensland. The new data confirm that 296,000 hectares of bushland was cleared in 2013-..

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• A map of the most vulnerable places on the planet

  

  Enlarge / Global snapshot of the Vegetation Sensitivity Index (VSI), which measures environmental sensitivity to a changing climate, using satellite data gathered between 2000-2013 at 5km resolution. Areas in green are covered in vegetation that is the least sensitive to changes. Areas in red show the highest sensitivity. Grey areas are barren land or ice covered. Water is blue. Sedon, et. al. Climate change isn't just one, uniform transformation of the planet. Over time, some areas are goin..

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• Climate change deal risked by CSIRO cuts

  

  Climate change deal risked by CSIRO cuts

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• Pollution meeting to be held in Brisbane

  

  Pollution meeting to be held in BrisbaneAir pollution monitoring and its shortcomings in Queensland will be on the agenda at a Brisbane meeting of health experts, lawyers and community groups.Environmental Justice Australia (EJA) has raised concerns about a lack of pollution monitoring in the entire central Queensland coalfields.The region of more than one million square kilometres contained more than half of the country's 20 most polluting coal mines, the group said."Queensland's current system..

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• Shark dragged from the ocean for a photo

  

  Shark dragged from the ocean for a photo by man in Florida Posted February 22, 2016 12:27:34 A man has been filmed taking photos with a shark after dragging it out of the ocean in Florida, where it washed ashore, a local journalist reported.The brutal incident was filmed by television news anchor and reporter Ashleigh Walters on Palm Beach.It comes days after a Franciscana dolphin was picked out of the ocean and paraded around by a man, so camera-wielding tourists cou..

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