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	<description>environmental news, opinion and photographs from James Woodford</description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Happened to Myrmidon?</title>
		<link>http://www.realdirt.com.au/2011/03/27/whats-happened-to-myrmidon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cyclone Yasi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just before Cyclone Yasi I joined an expedition with scientists out to Myrmidon Reef, 120 kilometres off Townsville. This week I was asked to talk to Radio National&#8217;s Robyn Williams -  Science Show &#8211; Cyclone Yasi &#8211; about the reef. Before the interview I called the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and asked for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyclones Also Fell Rainforests of the Ocean</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I filed this story for The Guardian in London and this one for the Sydney Morning Herald: Tropical Cyclone Yasi not only felled vast numbers of trees in some of the Australia’s most spectacular and precious rainforest. The storm’s reach was felt not only on land but also underwater. Yasi will almost certainly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Barrier Reef Book Launch</title>
		<link>http://www.realdirt.com.au/2010/09/16/great-barrier-reef-book-launch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If any Real Dirt readers think that Moruya on the NSW south coast has nothing whatsoever to do with the Great Barrier Reef then you&#8217;re wrong. On Friday 8th October feel free to come along and find out why I have neglected my blog.]]></description>
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		<title>What’s a Dead Penguin Worth to a Politican?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hazard reduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kikuyu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[montague island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[penguins]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since one of Real Dirt&#8217;s favourite contributors, Professor Poongschtock, has felt the need to fly into print. This time penguin exploitation has irked the good professor and he is as mad as a cut snake&#8230; Just how low can a politician stoop in pursuit of power? It’s a question that’s been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Owl!</title>
		<link>http://www.realdirt.com.au/2010/06/23/holy-owl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[lord howe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pest species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By JAMES WOODFORD Sometimes, no matter how much your family needs you, going straight home is not an option. In Tasmania masked owls are an endangered species &#8211; as few as 650 pairs are left. But on Lord Howe Island the Tasmanian race, the same sub-species of this raptor are absolutely thriving, living in densities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Latest From Lough&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.realdirt.com.au/2010/03/19/the-latest-from-lough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Janice Lough is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science and one of the nation&#8217;s leading climate scientists &#8211; her work on cores from ancient corals has confirmed that dramatic, unprecedented climate changes are underway right now. Lough&#8217;s message at the recent Coral Reefs Symposium, held in Brisbane in August, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas from Real Dirt&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.realdirt.com.au/2008/12/21/merry-christmas-from-real-dirt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a crazy year here at Real Dirt HQ &#8211; that is my laptop and office on the south coast of NSW&#8230;But I have been a little quiet the last few weeks as I have been travelling for my next book. After a short break until mid-January I hope to get things cranking up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Better Way of Burning? Climate Change, Bushfires, Indigenous Knowledge</title>
		<link>http://www.realdirt.com.au/2008/11/10/a-better-way-of-burning-climate-change-bushfires-indigenous-knowledge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.realdirt.com.au/2008/11/10/a-better-way-of-burning-climate-change-bushfires-indigenous-knowledge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Living with climate change is nothing new for Indigenous Australians, who survived tens of thousands of years in this continent with wild swings of dry, wet and sea levels many tens of metres lower than today. Clearly current fire management regimes are inadequate. But is there an alternative, asks ranger and landcare officer, Greg Watts? [...]]]></description>
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