This white paper examines the current challenges for clean energy infrastructure and identifies solutions that industrial clusters, transport and logistics industries, and the wider clean energy value chain can jointly explore in order to accelerate its deployment. Thirteen new industrial clusters from Australia, Brazil, Colombia, India, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, …
Sydney: Thousands of poisonous cane toads met their fate on Sunday as gleeful Australians gathered for a celebratory mass killing of the hated amphibians, with many of the creatures
The first Formula 1 cars to be fitted with a controversial energy recovery system are due to race in this season's opening Grand Prix in Melbourne, Australia, on Sunday. But questions over the safety of the system remain unresolved in the run-up to the race.
Global warming is more than a third to blame for a major drop in rainfall that includes a decade-long drought in Australia and a lengthy dry spell in the United States, a scientist said on Wednesday. Peter Baines of Melbourne University in Australia analyzed global rainfall observations, sea surface temperature …
The forecast for Sydney in summer 2060 is hot, polluted and deadly to the elderly. Rising summer temperatures due to global warming, drier weather and smog from transport and bushfires will make Australia's lifestyle capital a health hazard, a scientist told a major climate change conference on Wednesday. Most at …
Perth: About 80 whales and dolphins were stranded on Monday on a remote southwest Australian beach. Authorities plan to truck the few survivors to a protected bay before attempting to launch them back to sea. Volunteers and government officers struggled to save 17 long-finned pilot whales that were being battered …
Sydney: They are big, they are smelly and their landlords are trying to evict them from their prime waterfront homes. Tens of thousands of grey-headed flying foxes, one of the world
The mortgage crisis in the US has not just precipitated a worldwide economic meltdown. It has also made an impact on the English language. The Macquarie Dictionary, widely regarded as the guardian of Australian English, has named the phrase
Workers try to clean up Australian beaches but it looks like a long haul BRISBANE: Wildlife workers rescued turtle eggs and captured a few oil-coated pelicans off Australia
Geoscientists claim to have discovered an entire ocean that was destroyed 20 to 50 million years ago when its sea floor sank some 1,100km into the earth between Australia and New Zealand. An international team has reconstructed the cataclysm which took place when the tectonic plate underlying the ocean
AT A time when Australian commodity exports are collapsing under the impact of the global recession, India has provided some relief by opening up its market for branded dairy products from Down Under. With this, some of the big branded cheese products such as Bega and King Island will be …
Melbourne: New wildfires flared on Tuesday, but thousands of firefighters managed to keep them within firebreaks despite strong winds in southern Australia following blazes that killed more than 200 people. Wind gusts of up to 120 kilometres per hour blew in from the northwest around Victoria state.
Sydney, Nearly 200 whales and several dolphins are stranded on a beach in the southern Australian island state of Tasmania, the latest in a string of beachings in recent months. Rescuers were headed today to Naracoopa Beach on Tasmania
The Australian Government proposes an unconditional target of reducing 2000 year net emissions by 5%, and would make a 15% cut if other developed nations make similar commitments. These targets are indefensible on the basis of the latest science.
The relationship among mammal assemblages, site age and vegetation structure was assessed along three conservation corridors that were created to link national parks to the wet tropics World Heritage Area of North Queensland, Australia. Seventeen restored rainforest sites were classified into six site types according to their planting age, which …
