Category: Nature & Environment

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JOIN THE ANT HUNT / Free Yard Check

Press Release From The OFFICE OF CYNTHIA LUI MP Far North Queensland residents can help to eradicate the exotic electric ant pest by registering for…

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Regenerative Agriculture / Innovative Australian Farmers Lead the Way

ANDRE LEU Regenerative agriculture is a global farming revolution Australia has many innovative regenerative farmers Pasture cropping—the No-kill, No-till system Pasture cropping is 27 percent…

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REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE / The Long-Term Disaster Far Worse Than The COVID-19 Pandemic

ANDRE LEU, International Director of Regeneration International Key Points Climate change will have a far more serious long-term impact than COVID-19 By 2038, the impact…

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WEATHER / Cooktown Low Contracts South over Weekend

A trough with an embedded low [1002 hPa] north of Cooktown, will gradually contract southward over the next few days. A high [1014 hPa] near New Zealand maintains a weak ridge along the east coast south of the trough. A new high moves into the Tasman Sea early next week, reinforcing the ridge. The outlook for formation of a tropical cyclone over the weekend remains very low, but a strong wind warning is in place for the Cooktown region over the weekend.

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ENVIRONMENT / How Increases in Greenhouse Gases Cause Climate Change

There is a lot misinformation from climate change deniers stating that there is no evidence that Carbon Dioxide and other greenhouse gases are the cause of global warming and climate change. The facts are that there is a substantial body of scientific evidence showing how increases in greenhouse gases are warming the planet and changing the climate. Let’s look at it.

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CLIMATE REPORT / Regenerative Farming & The Significance of Soil

In response to the recent release of the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology’s State of the Climate Report, local organic farmer and writer Andre Leu shares his knowledge of the Importance of soil organic matter for climate change adaptation in regenerative farming.
Andre is also International Director of Regeneration International, a global NGO that promotes food, farming and land use systems that regenerate and stabilise eco systems, climate systems, the health of the planet and people.

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REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE / The Future of Farming?

To save the planet and feed the populace means a transformational change in the way we grow food and fibre. This article looks briefly at the big picture, the challenges and local opportunities.

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THE LIFE OF CORAL / A seething soup of sex on the reef

So the greatest sex show on Earth, for the smutty-minded and marine biologists at least, has come and gone. It was good to see some coral spawn, but … well…I guess I remember the good ol’ days. The spawn, unleashed, have ascended en masse to be concentrated into stinky pink slicks, so vast that they can be seen from space. Within these slicks is a seething soup of sex….

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AGRICULTURE / A Future in the Douglas Shire?

It’s no secret that cane is struggling and that land is going out of production into hobby farms or cattle grazing. For a variety of reasons, there are few options for crop diversification for agricultural land that could be implemented, or switched to, quickly at scale. But with each additional loss of cane production, overall viability becomes more threatened.

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