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Dead ducks put Canada oil sands impact into focus. “Canada and the energy-rich province of Alberta are finding that nothing stains an oil supplier's environmental image, or emboldens its critics, like several hundred dead ducks. With 500 waterfowl killed in oily wastewater at the country's largest oil sands plant this week, government and industry now face a new struggle to convince the world they are not just paying lip service to cleaning up operations."

Low autumn flows sink Murray hopes. “South Australian Minister for the River Murray and Water Security Karlene Maywald said Lake Albert, at the bottom of the Murray, was in a critical state due to acid sulphate soils. 'We are going to see complete and utter ecological collapse unless we can raise the water level,' she said."

Tropics insects ‘face extinction’. “Many tropical insects face extinction by the end of this century unless they adapt to the rising global temperatures predicted, US scientists have said.”