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, …
It is finally raining in eastern Australia to end the country's worst drought in 100 years. Though the downpour has brought respite for some, torrential rains have caused devastating floods in the northeast. Met officials say the coastal town of Mackay, Queensland, is the worst affected. On February 15, the …
The government of South Australia is planning to ban junk food advertising in children's viewing times. The province's Health Minister John Hill says the government will implement a voluntary ban first, but if that does not curb the number of advertisements, then it will legislate. Hill says banning advertising of …
Philippines recently ordered Novartis to pull out its anti-arthritis painkiller from the country. It is feared that the drug lumiracoxib, also sold as prexige, causes liver damage. The Bureau of Food and Drugs, the health regulators in the country, said the risks were greater than the benefits and cited reports …
A 150-year-old aboriginal artefact was unveiled at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide recently. The Wokali bark shield belonged to the Kaurna people of the Adelaide plains and dates back to the early 1850s. It was used in tribal fights. The Museum's head of anthropology, Phillip Clarke, says the shield …
Chinese and international media are abuzz with information on air pollution impacts on the health of athletes. Reports show that with every breath, athletes typically take in 10 to 20 times as much air, and thus pollutants, as sedentary people do. A 2004 review of pollution studies worldwide conducted by …
bay dredging gets a go-ahead: A controversial plan to deepen the Port Phillip Bay in the Australian city of Melbourne will go ahead after project opponents lost a legal challenge in the federal court. The project by the Port of Melbourne Corporation plans to dredge 23 million cubic metres of …
In a volte-face, Australia's new government told an Indian envoy that it will not sell uranium to India unless New Delhi signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Reversing a decision taken by the previous government, Australia's foreign minister, Stephen Smith, told the Indian prime minister's special envoy, Shyam Saran, at a …
A picture, they say, is worth a thousand words. The anti-tobacco lobby is learning to use that dictum to its advantage. Gory and graphic pictures of cancer stricken patients occupy 30 per cent of the surface of a cigarette packet in countries like Thailand, Hong Kong, Canada and Australia. As …
SEZs the world over have proved to be a boon, notes a KPMG India study: SEZs - a window of business opportunities Known variously as export processing zones, free trade zones, foreign trade zones, export processing regimes or free zones, sezs flourish through their competitive fiscal packages. In Australia, Mauritius, …
Transit planning in the United States has tended toward viewing BRT as an analogue to light rail transit, with similar operating patterns. This model, referred to as "Light Rail Lite,' is compared to international best practices, which have often favored the development of a grade-separated bus infrastructure ("Quickways') that in …
>> More than 100,000 tonnes of rotting garbage are lying on the roadsides of the southern Italian city of Naples, after garbage trucks stopped operating since the last week of December 2007 because all landfills are full. Authorities fear the stinking heaps could spread disease. >> Bolivia, Chile and Brazil …
Following intense pressure from the International Whaling Commission (iwc), Japan has dropped plans to hunt humpback whales during this year's annual whaling expedition, which is underway in the Antarctic Ocean. In November 2007, Japan despatched its whaling fleet to the Antarctic in the first major hunt of humpback whales since …
The us state California has lifted a three-decade-old ban on the sale of goods made from kangaroo leather. World's leading sportswears companies use kangaroo hide to make soccer shoes and other sports footwear, which are popular among athletes. In 1971, following opposition from animal rights groups, California banned the sale …
The environmental group Planet Ark is urging Australians to recycle their Christmas and New Year cards. This is the group's 14th year of card recycling and Australia's postal department has joined in the endeavour. It has distributed one million free envelopes that people can use to post their old cards …
THE Southern Ocean is usually one of the world's loneliest shipping lanes. This month it has turned into an unseemly battleground over a bid by Australia's government and various environmental groups to stop Japan hunting and slaughtering whales. Japan aims to kill more than 900 minke and 50 fin whales …
twin of the sun: Astronomers have found the Sun's long-lost twin. The star HIP 56948, considered to be the best solar twin, is about 200 light-years away. The mid-sized star is one of many in the Draco constellation and may be a billion years older than the middle-aged Sun
Set aside, for now, the really complex and costly financial implications of climate change. Ignore the tricky abstractions of carbon trading. Forget the worries over flooded cities and the ins and outs of renewable energy. Instead, consider just a few everyday money-making ideas created by the warming of our planet. …
Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Sydney, successfully tests a new filter media for the production of high quality water without any detrimental effects.
