The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) says the extreme summer wet season is to blame for the number of turtles washing up on beaches in the Capricorn Coast region. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-12/gladstone-turtle-deaths-blamed-on-extreme-wet-season/2836256
The Wide Bay Water Corporation says there is no need for alarm after the discovery of more than 100 dead fish in a lake west of Hervey Bay in southern Queensland.http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-05/cold-snap-may-be-behind-fish-kill/2825566
About 600 people attended an anti-mining rally on southern Queensland’s Darling Downs last night.http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-05/government-slated-over-southern-qld-farmland-mining/2825578
A landmark health study being launched today will examine the link between household chemicals and burgeoning childhood diseases such as ADHD and asthma.http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-05/study-household-chemicals-childhood-disease/2826166
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A new study has found links between a pesticide that is used in Australia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/20/2988554.htm?site=news
JUST as he always did, Sam Vella went out to spray his market garden with herbicide yesterday morning but only a few minutes later he was dead and his daughter was in hospital after ingesting the toxic fumes. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw-act/toxic-spray-weed-fumes-kill-gardener/story-e6freuzi-1225853834599
Scientists pinpoint how very low concentrations of the herbicide and other chemicals in Roundup formulations kill human cells, strengthening the case for phasing them out, and banning all further releases of Roundup-tolerant GM crops http://current.com/146im4c
IN WHAT he says is the biggest challenge of his career and potentially the most important project in the nation’s history, the former governor-general Michael Jeffery is launching a national campaign to restore Australia’s degraded landscape. http://www.smh.com.au/national/push-for-maverick-techniques-to-restore-landscape-20090911-fkqi.html
Local doctor Alison Bleaney was concerned about rare cancers among her patients. Marine ecologist Marcus Scammell had been called in to investigate oyster mortality and deformities. At the same time, the Tasmanian Devil facial tumour disease was first found in the same small pocket of NE Tasmania. Was a connection remotely possible and was there