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Antibiotic found in wild seafood 14 kilometres from salmon farm
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New deer hunting rules not expected to bring numbers down
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Culling feral cats sees birds return to remote Bass Strait island
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'EU's environmental policy must be part of defence strategy,' Commissioner Roswall says
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AI could consume up 3% of world's electricity the UN warns
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Conifers are making a comeback in Quebec's forests, study shows
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Earth's first animals barely evolved until sex changed everything
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Trump admin’s cancellation of wind energy projects causes business turmoil
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A lack of sex held back life's diversity for millions of years, fossil study finds
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Experts suspect state policy is putting some farmers in artificial drought
Farmer says flood plain harvesting has forced him to run cattle by the roadside Fri 5 Jun 2026 at 5:30am Paul Cameron watches his mob of thirsty cattle sink their heads into the Goan waterhole on the outskirts of Trangie in western New South Wales. Mr Cameron has driven his cattle to graze the scrubby patches of Crown land hugging the public billabong for more than a year. "I've been walking the stock to town … because we haven't got any water in our own system," Mr Cameron said.