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• Baby formula scandal hits Sydney

  

  Baby Axel Hamilton and mum Bridget have been affected by the shortage of Bellamy's Organic formula. Picture: Troy SnookA POPULAR organic baby formula is being sold online for $150 a tin following a nationwide shortage, leaving Sydney supermarket shelves bare and desperate parents eager to soothe their hungry infants.Bellamy’s Organic Steps 1, 2 and 3 formulas have all but sold out across the country, with mothers reporting shortages in all major capital cities and regional areas.Rogue sellers ar..

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• Jebediah Announce Huge National Summer Tour

  

  10 Nov 2015/Greg MoskovitchJebediah Announce Huge National Summer Tour Having rocked crowds around the country during their epic 20th anniversary tour earlier this year, Australian rock and roll veterans Jebediah are set to hit the road again next month for a highly anticipated summer tour.The band will be kicking things off in style with a New Year’s Eve performance at NYE Fiesta at the Rosemount Hotel, Perth, before zig-zagging across the nation to take ..

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• Bendigo Bank sees no reason to raise funds

  

  Bendigo Bank sees no reason to raise fundsby:By Trevor ChappellFrom:AAPNovember 10, 20154:36PMBENDIGO and Adelaide Bank says it has no need to raise more capital, in contrast to recent moves by the big four banks.AUSTRALIA'S fifth largest retail bank also says it is in better shape than it was a year ago.Chief executive Mike Hirst says Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has a higher capital ratio than the major banks. Even though the major banks now have to hold more capital against mortgages, they still..

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• World in 'uncharted territory' as greenhouse gases hit new high: UN

  

  GENEVA: Concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new high in 2014, the UN said on Monday, warning the resulting climate change was moving the world into “uncharted territory”.In its annual report on Earth-warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the World Meteorological Organisation said concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide once again broke records last year.“Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are now re..

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• Batzilla The Bat Is A Social Media Sensation, But There's A Conservation ...

  

  The day I speak to flying fox carer Denise Wade, she's just taken a group of juvenile bats to fly for the first time after being in rehab.At home, a premature orphan is swaddled in a handmade blanket, requiring feeds every two hours, and about a dozen injured flying foxes are recuperating.This is a normal day for Wade, who looks after flying foxes -- commonly called bats -- and shares herstories, videos and photos as Batzilla The Bat.She said there was a conservation message behind the cute vide..

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• Dingo doing more than its share to protect native species

  

  The dingo has an essential role in suppressing feral cat populations.Conservation science is increasingly pointing to the importance of dingoes as our top order mammalian predator, helping to control both introduced red foxes and feral cats, and fulfilling critical ecosystem functions.In turn this means that dingoes play an equally important role in protecting a long list of threatened and non-threatened Australian species, preyed upon in almost incomprehensible numbers by these feral interloper..

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• Toxic Dust From a Dying California Lake

  

  On October 28, the smog-control agency for Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, the South Coast Air Quality Management District, issued an odor advisory for the intense rotten-egg stench that was permeating the air of southern California’s Coachella Valley. The source: The state’s largest lake, the 350-square-mile Salton Sea, was burping up hydrogen sulfide, a gas created by the decaying organic matter trapped beneath the water. It was the Salton Sea’s fifth odor advisory for October alone; de..

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• How southern right whales learn from their mothers

  

  Southern right whales learn from their mothers in the first year of life about their annual migratory path along the Australian coast, scientists say.And an international team lead by researchers at Macquarie University also found that this migratory culture has helped to shape the genetics and population recovery of southern right whales.These whales are still endangered mainly because they were considered the “right” whales to catch. Not only did they come close to shore, making them easier ta..

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• Australia comes in from the cold

  

  ExclusiveEnvironment Minister Greg Hunt.Photo: Chris HopkinsAustralia has been applauded by delegates at climate change ministerial talks in Paris for returning to active climate diplomacy.With the major UN climate summit set to begin at the end of this month, some 60 countries have sent ministers to Paris for advance talks.Climate activists have praised Australian Environment Minister Greg Hunt's work for achieving a breakthrough in a six-year-old deadlock on a side protocol, delivering a bonus..

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• Sudden death of Swan River dolphin Gizmo

  

  Gizmo swimming with his mother, Tupac, in the Swan River. Picture: Murdoch University/Delphine ChabanneSource:SuppliedBELOVED Swan River dolphin Gizmo — which survived a dramatic entanglement rescue three years ago — has died suddenly from a mysterious illness.The six-year-old dolphin was just a calf in 2012 when he became the talk of the town after a rescue by Water Police to free him from fishing line he’d been dragging for two months.It was a delicate operation that was not made easier by his..

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