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Clearing way for conflict in Australia over farm land use
Posted by Sydney Morning Herald: Nicole Hasham on July 12th, 2014
Sydney Morning Herald: The irony might escape the uninitiated, but Bronwyn Petrie says thick clumps of eucalypts thriving on her Tenterfield farm do not mean the land is in rude health.
To the contrary, the trees block the rain and draw up so much moisture that the earth is withering away.
''There is this big myth that trees save the soil, but we know it`s time to thin trees when we start losing ground cover,'' Ms Petrie says.
However, laws protecting native bush mean not a single gum can be removed, she says....
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Posted by Sydney Morning Herald: Nicole Hasham on November 3rd, 2012
Sydney Morning Herald: WATER will swamp homes and businesses from Haberfield to Homebush as rising sea levels inundate the Parramatta River foreshore over the next century, a new analysis shows.
The findings are critical as valuable river frontage becomes increasingly urbanised and former industrial sites are redeveloped into housing.
Even under a limited sea level rise of 0.4 metres, predicted by 2050, the area of riverside land submerged every year would increase by 450 per cent on current levels.
Once the sea...