Marsupial Manure Helps Aussies Make Paper
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CANBERRA, Australia - An environmentally friendly paper manufacturer has stumbled upon an unlikely way to put an unwanted natural resource to good use.  The company has created its first batch of paper from marsupial manure.
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MOULAMEIN, Australia  - A thin winter green carpets Australia's southeast hills and plains, camouflaging the onset of a drought catastrophe in the nation's food bowl.
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HUMAN beings are plundering the earth&#39;s resources at an alarming and unsustainable rate, and Australians are among the worst offenders.
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By KIDSON, Sally; FAIRFAX  By Sally Kidson and NZPA   Dairy farmers in Tasman district have shown a "huge improvement'' in meeting their resource consent conditions.
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Home-buyers of tomorrow could find themselves walking across floors made from manure. Researchers at Michigan State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture insist it's no cow pie in the sky dream. They say that fiber from processed and sterilized cow manure could take the place of sawdust in making fiberboard, which is used to make everything from furniture to flooring to store shelves.
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Put off by the idea of wearing jackets made from dead animal skins, a team of Australian researchers attempts to grow a stitchless coat from live cells. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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Bush tucker plan to protect indigenous wildlife An Australian kids' book writer and illustrator has come up with a tasty plan to protect the Lucky Country's indigenous wildlife from the feral cat menace - eat the blighters.â¦
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The hopes of environmentalists for Tasmania&#39;s old-growth forests to be protected have been raised by Opposition Leader Mark Latham&#39;s choice of words at the Labor campaign launch.
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A kangaroo that went on a walkabout in frigid Wisconsin was captured Wednesday. But where the marsupial came from remained a mystery.
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SYDNEY, Australia - An Australian wildlife worker pulled a 7-foot python out of a septic tank Wednesday after a plumber found it hiding in a woman's toilet, officials said.
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By Morris, Helen  This staff-owned firm finds investing in its products and a 100m biomass plant yields rewards. By Helen Morris  Paper manufacturing in the UK has gone through a torrid few months.
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Australian scientists have called on the country's farmers to report any ugly sheep found in their flocks.
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Scientists in Australia have developed a sperm-sorting machine which may help infertile men to become fathers.
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Australia's conservative government has offered to supply a remote Aboriginal township with fuel if parents agreed to wash their children, under a controversial plan to end health problems plaguing indigenous communities.
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An astonishing collection of fossil animals from southern Australia is reported by scientists.
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Sydney - Australia&#39;s koalas, once a threatened species, are now growing so fast in some areas that wildlife authorities are putting them on the pill.
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By Chris Casteel, The Daily Oklahoman  Sep. 23--WASHINGTON -- The nation's cattlemen, concerned about legal action taken in Oklahoma regarding poultry waste, are pushing a House committee to pass a bill that would prevent the regulation of animal manure under federal environmental laws.