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• Global SO2 emission hotspot database: ranking the world’s worst sources of SO2 pollution

  <p>India is the world&#39;s largest emitter of sulphur dioxide contributing more than 15% of the global anthropogenic SO2 emissions from the point sources tracked by NASA. The major SO2 emission hotspots in India are Singrauli (Madhya Pradesh) Neyveli and Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Talcher and Jharsuguda (Odisha), Korba (Chhattisgarh) , Kutch (Gujarat), Ramagundam (Telangana) and Chandrapur and Koradi (Maharashtra) shows the Greenpeace study based on NASA data.</p>

  • 19/08/2019

  • Greenpeace
  • • Air Pollution
    • Coal
    • Thermal Power Plants
    • Health Effects
    • India
    • Global
    • Australia

• From Townsville to Tuvalu: health and climate change in Australia and the Asia Pacific region

  Climate change is “absolutely” already causing deaths, according to a new report on the health impacts of the climate crisis, which also predicts climate-related stunting, malnutrition and lower IQ in

  • 31/07/2019

  • Monash University
  • • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Environmental Health
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands

• Vaccination rate for Australian children hits record high: data

  Data released by the Australian government for the first quarter this year on Sunday revealed that 94.78 percent of all Australian five-year-olds have been immunized, up from 94.67 percent in the last

  • 08/07/2019

  • Xinhua
  • • Health
    • Vaccination
    • Australia
    • Immunisation
    • Child Health

• Fossil fuel exports make Australia one of the worst contributors to climate crisis

  Australia is on a path to being one of the worst contributors to the climate emergency if the pollution from its fossil fuel exports are factored in Australia could be contributing as much as 17% of global

  • 08/07/2019

  • Guardian (UK)
  • • Climate Change
    • Australia
    • Green House Gases
    • Fossil Fuels
    • Exports
    • Carbon Dioxide

• Karl Lagerfeld spider among new Australian species identified by arachnologists

  A Queensland Museum arachnologist has helped identify five new species of tiny brushed jumping spiders the size of a grain of rice. The group includes a spider with large black eyes like sunglasses

  • 02/07/2019

  • Guardian (UK)
  • • Biodiversity
    • Insects
    • Australia

• Evaluating the significance of Australia’s global fossil fuel carbon footprint

  Australia’s share of global CO2 emissions from domestic use of fossil fuels was about 1.4% in 2017. Accounting for fossil fuel exports lifts Australia’s global carbon footprint to about 5%. This is equivalent

  • 01/07/2019

  • Climate Analytics
  • • Carbon Dioxide
    • Fossil Fuels
    • Australia

• Dividing the water, sharing the benefits: lessons from rural-to-urban water reallocation

  Rural regions are often seen as key sources of urban water supply, creating pressure for reallocation and potential hotspots of competition for water between cities and agriculture. How effective and equitable

  • 01/06/2019

  • The World Bank
  • • Urban Water Supply
    • Water Disputes
    • Benefit Sharing
    • Australia
    • South Africa
    • Mexico
    • Brazil
    • River Basin

• Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions increased for fourth year in a row in 2018

  Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions continued to rise in 2018, according to a government report to the United Nations. The submission shows again that Australia faces a huge task in meeting its obligations

  • 29/05/2019

  • Guardian (UK)
  • • Climate Change
    • Green House Gases
    • Australia
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • UNFCCC
    • Transport
    • Industry

• Australia to achieve 50% renewables by 2030 without government intervention, analysis finds

  Australia is on track to achieve 50% renewable electricity by 2030 even without new federal energy policies, according to modelling by the energy analysts RepuTex. The analysis, to be released on Wednesday,

  • 29/05/2019

  • Guardian (UK)
  • • Energy
    • Renewable Energy
    • Australia
    • Solar Energy
    • Electricity

• Significant plastic accumulation on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia

  <p>For over 60 years, our oceans have been a reservoir for exponentially increasing amounts of plastic waste. Plastic has been documented at all levels of the marine food web, from the deepest oceanic

  • 16/05/2019

  • Scientific Reports
  • • Plastics
    • Marine Pollution
    • Australia
    • Islands
    • Marine Ecosystems
    • Hazardous Waste
    • Waste Disposal