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, …
This information sheet analyses the trends in passenger transport in Australia's eight capital cities over the period 1977 to 2008. Although car travel continues to dominate travel in cities, urban public transport has accounted for much of the growth in travel from 2004 to 2008. There are large differences between …
This information bulletin provides a list of maximum residue limits (MRLs) for pesticides registered for use in Australian on almonds. Listed in the table are MRLs for Australia, as established by Food Standards Australia New Zealand and a number of countries to which Australian almonds are exported as at March …
This document represents the collective expertise of a diverse group of individuals concerned with ecosystem degradation, and the continuing loss of the services provided by these ecosystems. Attention is given to aquatic ecosystems because of water`s fundamental role as the `blood` of ecosystem structure and functions, and an engine of …
Water quality trading is gaining traction in a number of watersheds around the world. It is a market-based approach that works alongside water quality regulation to improve water quality, providing flexibility in how regulations are met and potentially lowering regulatory compliance and abatement costs. The research identified 57 water quality …
Agents to control this dreaded weed work well in labs, need to be taken to fields congress grass or parthenium, a native of tropical America, came to India accidentally in 1955. A rapidly growing invasive species, this grass competes well for nutrients and space and reproduces fast. One of the …
Chemical that triggers desire in humans makes locusts swarm desert locusts are asocial by nature. They like to keep to themselves. But when food is in short supply they gang up to form swarms
Melbourne, Officials warned on Tuesday the wildfires that devastated southern Australia this month could flare anew when high winds and hot temperatures sweep the region later this week, and raised the death toll from the blazes to 210. Australia
Scores of people fled their homes in southern Australia on Monday fearing that rising temperatures and strong winds could fan blazes burning in forests into unstoppable firestorms. Tensions were high in Victoria, where devastating fires swept a vast area of the state on February 7, destroying more than 1,800 homes …
BY ROD MCGUIRK CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA Australian officials said on Friday that they want to fast-track rules making cigarettes less likely to ignite fires as part of the government
Global warming is likely to push cold-blooded animals to the limit of their ability to regulate their temperature, a model suggests. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126964.800-lizards-will-roast-in-a-warming-world.html
Australia could be in for more forest fires in the coming decades like the ones that have devastated southern Victoria and claimed at least 200 lives so far, besides gutting more than 700 houses. Climate models based on figures provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predict more frequent …
Melbourne: The confirmed death toll from deadly wildfires has reached 200 and will rise further, the police said. The grim milestone was passed on Tuesday after investigators confirmed 11 more people had died in one of more than 400 fires that raged across southern Victoria state on February 7. More …
Householders in Australia would be charged for each flush under a radical new toilet tax designed to help beat the drought, reports Perth Now. The scheme would replace the current system, which sees sewage charges based on a home
A Week after bushfires started blazing across parts of southern Australia, the country was still coming to grips with one of the most traumatic events in its peacetime history. The fires that erupted on February 7th in Victoria, the second-most populous state, killed more than 180 people. Police say the …
SYDNEY - Australian businesses plan to slash energy consumption and step up efficiency to hold down the expenses of greenhouse gas reduction programs, a survey of chief executives of top 200 firms by PricewaterhouseCoopers showed. The survey showed 93 percent of the chief executives planned to use energy more efficiently …
