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, …
Wastewater irrigation is a common practice in developing countries of Asia and Africa and also in the water scarce regions of the developed world like Australia. In India, wastewater is used either raw or partially treated due to high treatment costs, whereas in Australia, treated wastewater is recycled in agriculture …
This guide is intended to provide a summary of the steps to develop wetland management planning processes. Improved understanding of how to use these principles and planning steps will help achieve more effective conservation and thus wetland wise use. This summary guide has been prepared to help managers of sites …
Biotechnology proponents claim that genetically modified (GM) crops are good for consumers, farmers and the environment, and that they are growing in popularity around the world. Unfortunately, journalists often report such claims as fact, without first subjecting them to critical scrutiny. As in past editions of
Vedanta Resources plc is a London listed FTSE 100 diversified metals and mining group. Its principal operations are located throughout India, with further operations in Zambia and Australia. Vedanta produces aluminium, copper, zinc and lead and iron ore. It also has interests in commercial energy and is in the process …
The indigenous Australian Githabul people now own over 112,000 hectares of national parks and forests in New South Wales, a south-east Australian state. At a special hearing, the Federal Court ratified an agreement reached between the Githabul and the state government earlier this year, giving the indigenous people their native …
A unique exhibition of western desert Aboriginal artwork from the Papunya art movement went on display at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra in the last week of November. During the 1970s and early 1980s artists in the Northern Territory community of Papunya created a collection of works that …
Cotton is the most important textile fibre and contributes to 62 percent of the Indian Textile Industry's requirement. Among the different quality groups, the ELS Cotton of 35 mm and above is in great demand world over for the manufacture of high quality ring spun yarns.
Despite incontrovertible and mounting evidence, the rich world does not take the threat of climate change seriously. It is high on rhetoric but low on action. Industrialized countries have created the problem of excessive and dangerous emissions. They also use a disproportionate amount of resources. These nations have emitted greenhouse …
>> Authorities confirmed an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu strain in Suffolk county, the UK, on November 13. An exclusion zone was imposed at the site and about 6,000 poultry were ordered to be culled. >> China-made toys were once again withdrawn from shops in North America and Australia …
The government of Queensland, a northern Australian state, plans to slaughter 10,000 feral horses, also known as brumbies, saying that the wild animals are damaging fragile habitats in national parks. The state government has instructed shooters to hide the bodies to conceal the extent of the cull. About 4,000 brumbies …
>> About 500,000 hill lambs suspected of foot and mouth disease will be culled and incinerated in Wales and Scotland over the next few weeks to avoid a
The Australian government has given the go-ahead for construction of a controversial aus $2-billion (us $1.8 billion ) pulp mill on the island state of Tasmania. Conservationists fear the mill will destroy the region's native forests and threaten endangered species. The mill will be built in the island's Tamar valley. …
Malcolm Turnbull, Australia's environment minister, has become the target of a campaign from Western Australia's Pilbara region. The Friends of Australian Rock Art is worried about recent vandalism of artwork in the region's Burrup Peninsula. The group has called on residents to demand an enquiry from the minister. The panel …
The two-day meet of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (apec) countries ended on September 9, 2007, in Sydney, Australia, amidst much opposition and protests. The key outcome of the meet was a decision to push the Doha trade talks forward and support a post-Kyoto pact. apec members pledged to show "political …
The Australian government has given the green light to Australian $10-billion (about us $8-billion) plan to revive the Murray-Darling basin, which provides 40 per cent of the country's food. The step, taken to protect the basin that is facing a water shortage, was part of the Water Bill, 2007, passed …
Barely a month goes by without a painting by an Australian aboriginal artist selling for a record price. But the beauty of those paintings that frequently grace Australia's art galleries and corporate board rooms mask the often complex stories they tell. The dots and lines that represent sand hills and …
The Australian government's advisory group on drugs has defended a graphic new television campaign about the drug crystal methamphetamine or ice. It shows an office worker unable to sleep after smoking the drug; a man flying into a psychotic rage in a hospital and smashing a window; a young woman …
The Australian government in the last week of August approved laws for the Northern Territory's indigenous people, which, it says, are designed to fight rampant child sexual abuse among the Aborigines. The move was in response to an officially commissioned report that found child abuse was widespread in the state's …
