Monday, 14th January 2013
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
With support from an NRM grant, the Natural History Society of SA is setting up an exclosure to help restore degraded land into native grasslands.
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Climate change remains one of the nation’s most divisive issues. But have you ever thought about what climate scientists actually do? How they know what they know?
Climate change remains one of the nation’s most divisive issues. But have you ever thought about what climate scientists actually do? How they know what they know?
Chaired by UniSA remote sensing specialist, Assoc Prof David Bruce, on the 17th of January at Mawson Lakes, we will hear the latest policy developments and technological capabilities of earth observation satellites from an expert panel that includes Dr Kimberley Clayfield of CSIRO, and Mr Anthony Wicht of the Space Policy Unit, Department of Innovation, Canberra.
How to Build Your Own Worm Farm.
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AUSTRALIA
Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle is no longer a threat to West Australian communities but residents have been warned to avoid potential hazards caused by storm damage.
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AUSTRALIA
Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle is no longer a threat to West Australian communities but residents have been warned to avoid potential hazards caused by storm damage.
A month ago the NSW Aboriginal Land Council applied to explore for coal seam gas under 40 per cent of the state, sparking outrage from indigenous and non-indigenous people alike.
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A Fund has been set up to help wildlife displaced and injured in the Tasmanian bushfires.
"We do know that over time as a result of climate change we are going to see more extreme weather events”, says Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
It could not be more Orwellian. Barry O'Farrell's NSW government has triumphed in reducing funding for legal aid, community legal centres and the Environmental Defenders Office.
Activist Jonathan Moylan, 24, is a life-long Novocastrian. His last local address was in Hamilton before he moved to a tent near the Liverpool Plains to protest against the expansion of the coal industry in NSW. This week he made national headlines with a hoax press release on Monday stating the ANZ Bank had withdrawn support for the Maules Creek coalmining project in the Liverpool Plains.
INTERNATIONAL
A major draft federal report concludes that climate change is already affecting U.S. residents through heat waves, droughts and other changes, and warns that temperatures could increase as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit if global carbon emissions keep soaring.
A major draft federal report concludes that climate change is already affecting U.S. residents through heat waves, droughts and other changes, and warns that temperatures could increase as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit if global carbon emissions keep soaring.
A blanket of toxic air that has blocked out the sun across most of north China is dominating social media and looming as a serious health and political challenge.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed creating a green bank to spur private investment in the clean economy. He also called for a state-wide electric car network and an extension to the state’s solar program.
The majority of Britain's trains will be indirectly running on nuclear power for the next 10 years following Network Rail's agreement to a £3bn deal with EDF to supply electricity to the railways.
NASA scientists at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory effectively have ruled out the possibility the asteroid Apophis will impact Earth during a close flyby in 2036.
The Mozambican customs service has seized 30 containers full of logs that were about to be exported illegally to China through the port of Maputo.
The forces against hydraulic fracturing, a method of drilling for natural gas, brought to Albany NY a face and a voice familiar to the world: Yoko Ono. Ono and her son, Sean Lennon, have a connection with the issue. She and her late husband, John Lennon, bought a farm in the Catskills, and she and her son want to prevent fracking - near that property, and everywhere else.
Keep an eye on this calendar for upcoming live video stream from a Sea Shepherd ship.
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