Category Archives: Environment
Nick Xenophon: As a nation, we should live up to our international obligations and set a good example for the rest of the world.
CLIMATE CHANGE I am not a climate change sceptic. I believe that global warming is real and that the overwhelming scientific evidence is that it is caused by human activity. So, we must take responsibility for finding a way to reverse this dangerous trend. As a nation, we should live up to our international obligations [...]
Eight children, one cooking pot, no food
Rania Abouzeid, Pakistan IT WAS an image that conveyed the human cost of the Pakistan floods – and the failure to deliver aid to those affected – more powerfully than any statistic: four young children lying on a filthy patchwork quilt, one of them sucking on an empty yellow bottle, covered by flies. Pakistani children [...]
Google and Galaxy Zoo could aid global climate project
Climate scientists meeting in Britain this week hope to build a database to predict natural disasters precisely. And records of the voyages of the Bounty and Beagle will assist them in their task Robin McKie, science editor The Observer Article history Victims of Pakistan’s floods use a railway track to reach a marooned village. Better [...]
Cousteau urges action on fishing
by Tom Arup THE son of famed ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau has urged Australia to protect its marine environment as a way to ensure the future viability of the fishing industry. Speaking to The Age from his base in California, Jean-Michel Cousteau said protected marine national parks help restore the planet’s dwindling fish stocks, allowing [...]
More Aussies switching to solar power
From: AAP INCREASINGLY large numbers of Australians are switching to sustainable energy sources in a bid to reduce energy bills and lower greenhouse gas emissions. A Newspoll survey found that while electricity and gas prices have gone up by an estimated average of 35 per cent across the country in the past three years, Australians have [...]
20 years left: mammals plunge into extinction
Ben Cubby ENVIRONMENT EDITOR Into oblivion . . . some of the disappearing native mammals: (clockwise from above) burrowing bettong, a possum, northern brown bandicoot and northern quoll. AT DUSK, the dry savannah of the Kimberley was once alive with the scuttling and foraging of the burrowing bettong, a marsupial whose ”countless numbers” were marvelled [...]
Hanwha Chemical Seeks to Double Sales on Solar, Rechargeable Battery Plans
By Shinhye Kang and Jungmin Hong “We’re targeting revenue of more than 9 trillion won ($7.6 billion) in 2015 compared with this year, and a lot of sales will come from the solar division,” Chief Executive Officer Hong Ki Joon, 60, said in an interview at the company’s headquarters in Seoul yesterday. Photographer: Seokyong Lee/Bloomberg [...]
Japan dolphin-hunting season starts in Taiji
AP JAPANESE fishermen have set out on the first dolphin hunt of the season in Taiji, the Japanese village portrayed in the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove. About two dozen fishermen who left early in the morning returned empty-handed a few hours later, according to an official at the Taiji fisheries co-operative.
Insuring REDD Projects: Questions and Answers
Author: Gus Kent and Gabriel Thoumi Just a few weeks of actual negotiating time remain before the year-end summit in Cancun, and climate talks are a mess. Sure, most parties agree it’s a good idea to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by saving trees, but that’s about all they agree on. This all highlights the amount [...]
How to make clean energy palatable to Parliament
by Leigh Ewbank ABC Environment A price on carbon is too politically sensitive, but there is more than one way to move Australia to a clean energy future. Linking the demise of the Labor party’s electoral fortunes to its decision to defer the CPRS, as Sara Phillips has argued, is correct. But that doesn’t mean [...]
‘Game on’ for Greens
Editorial From: Herald Sun WITH the post-poll dust yet to settle, all eyes are on the Greens and their pivotal role in the new Senate. The Greens are now the third political force, attracting 11.5 per cent of the national vote – a swing of 3.7 per cent.
Embracing Change: Why We Need Leadership on the Climate Crisis
by Brian Walters SC This past week we have seen Penny Wong, the Federal Minister for Climate Change and Water, after negligible effort, give up on restoring river flows to the Murray Darling, and announce support for allowing the sea in to the lower Murray system so as to permanently destroy the freshwater ecology of [...]
Stop infecting youngsters with misery
By Jim Hopkins This will never do. It’s an outrage. These people must be bonkers. How dare they prefer this ravaged wasteland. They clearly know nothing of our polluted rivers and pooh-filled paddocks, not to mention the Treaty breaches and similar horrible horrors we clasp so close to our masochistic bosom.
Global warming shrank carnivores 55 million years ago
Extinct carnivorous mammals shrank in size during a global warming event that occurred 55 million years ago, according to a new University of Florida study. The study describes a new species that evolved to half the size of its ancestors during this period of global warming.
Indonesia seeks $2.5b oil spill payout
By Kerri Ritchie ABC News Reports from Indonesia say the government will seek $2.5 billion in compensation from an Australian-based exploration company, which was responsible for an oil spill in the Timor Sea last year. The Montara well leaked uncontrollably for more than 70 days, destroying fish stocks in Indonesian territory.
