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For the first time in living memory, the proportion of Australians calling a capital city home has fallen. COVID-19 drove people to many regional centres. 
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Australian beaches could struggle to recover if a third La Nina weather event occurs this year, threatening coastal communities, experts warn.
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BAD RIVER - The Cooks River: Australia's sickest urban river is located in the glamorous and famously pretty city of Sydney. This makes sense, given it’s also Australia's largest, hard-surfaced, drainified, leaky-sewered, city. In my little red kayak I decided to trace all 23km of the Cooks River, inspired to do so after paddling my boyhood river over 4 days in the name of Backyard Adventuring. Finding it not only challenging, but shocking in terms of its ill health, I’ve since shifted from wanting to see the wildest and most pristine places on earth, to the most degraded and sick. This is a journey of ill-health, sadness and hope; putting a test to the local saying, ‘if you fall in, you’ll dissolve’.
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The three new marine parks will cover more than 600,000 hectares of Kimberley coastline throughout the Buccaneer Archipelago.
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The country now has 355 tigers, but critics say the conservation focus has put human neighbors at risk.
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As birth rates collapse across large swathes of the world and the global population ages, the geopolitical map is set to be redrawn – with big consequences.
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We can no longer pretend we’re separate to nature. If ecosystems collapse, our society will be threatened too.
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We're just over halfway through 2022 and rainfall records are tumbling as the east coast hunkers down for more to come.
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India now has the same number of residents as China, with each counting more than 1.4 billion residents this year, and is set to pull ahead next year, according to a new United Nations report.
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The latest update of the UN’s World Population Prospects confirms we are now in sight of a time when the human population will cease to grow and be in ongoing decline.
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Sydney’s urban sprawl extends up to 60 kilometres, with plans to build thousands of homes more than 80 kilometres from the CBD.
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Pristine areas with beautiful views are wonderful and amazing to visit. But over the past few years, little known hidden treasures like Horseshoe Bend have witnessed a dramatic increase in popularity. The main culprit for that uptick? Social media. So what happens to these places when they become suddenly popular? And what can we do to help? Vox investigates.
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Visiting Pritzker Prize winners Jean-Philippe Vassal and Anne Lacaton believe architects should “never demolish, never subtract, never remove, always add and transform”.
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The group claim Australia has breached their human rights by failing to act on climate change.
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One of the worst mangrove diebacks in the world was recorded in Australia in 2016. Now, scientists have identified the cause — but it may be too late for the ecosystems to recover.
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KATHMANDU — The number of tigers in Nepal has nearly tripled over the past 12 years, officials announced July 29, on the occasion of International Tiger Day. The figure of 355 tigers blows past the 250 that the Himalayan country was expected to achieve as part of global efforts to double the wild tiger population […]
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Dynamic World is a 10 meter resolution near real time global land use land cover dataset in Google Earth Engine | GTAV Technology and cartography in Geography
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Most marine-terminating glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere are shrinking; some have completely left the water. | Stage 5 Human Wellbeing
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Through the final six months of 2021, 460 people a day left NSW in a demographic earthquake that could reverberate for years.
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In the more than three decades that Lisa Margan has lived and worked at her family’s Hunter Valley winery and restaurant, she’s never seen flooding like this.
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New UN study says increasing sustainability is vital to livelihoods of billions of people in developed and developing countries
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It's taken two decades, $2.5 million and the commitment of dozens of people, but an erosion-control project in the Sunshine Coast hinterland is proof that terribly degraded riverbanks can be repaired.
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A new model suggests "mantle rain" ensures we will always have a surface ocean
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