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One tiny marsupial turned out to be four
The long-tailed planigale, one of the smallest marsupials on earth, has just been sorted into four separate species, and one of them is brand new.
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The stretch of the Murray where the stories come out at night
Old eucalypts, an inland beach and a night walk through Bangerang country, on the quiet stretch of the Murray between Cobram and Tocumwal.
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National Science Week runs 15 to 23 August, with events in every state and plenty for curious kids. A lovely excuse to share the year the ocean introduced itself with the young scientists in your life.
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A hundred years of O'Reilly's, on the mountain called Woonoongoora
Australia’s first treetop walkway, four generations of one family, and a rainforest that was World Heritage before most of us were paying attention.
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Twenty nine thousand names, and an island comes home
A ninety nine year development concession over Manoel Island has ended, and the waterfront is going back to the people who asked for it.
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Nepal counted its tigers, and there are 429
One hundred and twenty one in 2009. Four hundred and twenty nine this year, in a country you could drive across in a day.
Bright ideas
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Innovations we love
Innovations
Glass a bird can see
A window is invisible to a bird. The new answer is a pattern etched into the glass itself, which the bird reads as solid and you barely notice at all.
Innovations
The mines that warm the town above them
Gateshead dug coal for two centuries. Now the flooded old tunnels warm the town, cleanly, from below.
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How to visit the Torres Strait, and how to ask
Two islands you can simply fly to, and the form you fill in for the rest. A practical guide to going north.
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Sleep in the lighthouse keeper's cottage, nine kilometres out to sea
No cars, no shops, no road. Barunguba Montague Island has a granite lighthouse, eight thousand penguins and two cottages you can book.
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The walk that Year 10 built
A 262 kilometre loop through the far south west of Victoria, cut by hand by school students and kept going by volunteers ever since.
Small changes
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Sustainable living
Sustainable Living
What have you changed for a healthier planet?
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The forests that fit in a schoolyard
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