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What goes around: 100 firms are making plastics a global problem
As international and regional organisations seem to be getting more ambitious in curtailing plastic pollution, the corporate sector looks to be lagging.
- by J.J. Rose
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WA project gives new view of plastic dump sites in world’s worst ocean polluters
A new global tool aims to help governments tackle the leakage of plastic into the sea, taking regularly updated satellite vision to create a high-resolution map.
- by Peter de Kruijff
‘I’ve never seen that before’: Lord, how do you get rid of 200,000 rats on an island?
The rats on Lord Howe Island were a problem for more than a century. But a new program has the island undergoing an “ecological renaissance” as native birds and snails return.
- by Laura Chung
China to use more of its own coal, cutting Australian imports: analysis
New Australian modelling shows that China’s high-speed efforts to build rail lines from its coal fields to its industrial areas will hit imports from Australia faster than predicted.
- by Nick O'Malley