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SURVEYING THE LAND: Grant High School students learn about the changing landscape atop Mount Schank. STUDENTS from Grant High School discovered a series of agricultural and land management related careers this week, as the Limestone Coast Landscape Board hosted its 2021 Career Immersion Day. The immersive learning experience started with a presentation by Mount Gambier City Council engineering technical officer Sinaway Georgiou to learn about pest plant removal. This provided students with an understanding of the importance of controlling environmental weeds within the region. Students als...

A SERVICE will be held at Port MacDonnell War Memorial on Sunday to commemorate the centenary of the laying of […]

Environmental scientists see flora, fauna and phenomena the rest of us rarely do. In this series, we've invited them to share their unique photos from...

Environmental scientists see flora, fauna and phenomena the rest of us rarely do. In this series, we’ve invited them to share their unique photos from the field. Volcanic activity is a constant global threat. It’s estimated over 1 billion people live within the potential, direct impact range of volcanic eruptions. Just recently, lava flows from the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo, a volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo, killed 32 people, with many more missing. Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee the city of Goma. This shows why understanding more about the inner wor...

About 20 kilometres from anywhere resembling a town in the south-east, a inconspicuous dirt road cuts through man-made forest to the most ominously-named sinkhole of them all. Despite the popularity of other surrounding cenotes, there's not a single person to be seen on the road, or at the park from which a pathway leads to a shaggy and distinctly out-of-place patch of bush. It's eerily quiet when I reach the hellmouth, which has been made accessible to visitors by an enclosed steel bridge which juts over the top of the sinkhole, the height from which makes me instantly woozy. I clutch ...