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, …
Several countries reap benefits from sustainable culling of crocodiles. Not India. The Indian government has banned export of crocodile skins. James Perran Ross, executive officer of the Crocodile Specialist Group in Florida Museum of Natural History, USA, says, "Our representatives [in India] have been endeavouring to open possibilities for well …
snowy alpine regions of Australia are shrinking because of global warming, claim scientists. "The alpines may disappear completely within the next 70 years,' opines John Morgan, a botanist at the La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia. A study conducted by the university's researchers found that sub-alpine trees in the snowy mountains …
australia will not endorse the Kyoto Protocol. "The Australian government has always said that it will not ratify the treaty ahead of the us ,' said Robert Hill, the country's environment minister. Hill claimed that the Kyoto Protocol is now non-operational, as the us has backed out. "The world has …
Nuclear waste sent from Australia for reprocessing in France cannot be unloaded because it does not have proper authorisation, a French court recently ruled, backing a complaint by Greenpeace, an international pressure group. Cogema, the world's leading nuclear fuel reprocessor, was due to handle the Australian waste. In its appeal, …
Cane toads (Bufo marinus) introduced in Australia in the 1930s to control the sugarcane beetle are poised to invade the Australian Kakadu National Park, a world heritage site. The toads are poisonous to the native animals found in the region. They have spread across north-eastern Australia and could reach Kakadu …
the book is truly an international effort, both in terms of contributors as well as the content. With articles authored from various parts of the world, the book documents rainwater harvesting systems and efforts to conserve water across the continents of Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and America. As in the …
australian government will use a fungus to fight a weed, which has destroyed vast areas of the country's natural bushland. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and the Weeds Cooperative Research Centre have released the rust fungus, Puccinia myrsiphylli , in order to stop the uncontrollable spread of the …
australia's greenhouse gas emissions have increased by at least 16.9 per cent during 1990-98, according to a government survey. This means that it has crossed its Kyoto Climate Change Protocol target, which stipulates an eight per cent increase by 2010. A survey conducted by the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory shows …
The first commercial marine vessel to be powered by solar and wind energy was launched at Jervis Bay, Australia recently. The craft is scheduled to begin cruise operations in the Sydney harbour area throughout the Sydney 2000 Olympic Green Games. An earlier prototype has demonstrated, reasonably well, the speed, versatility …
the 52nd annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission ( iwc ) was 'business as usual', riddled with controversy over resumption of whaling. At this year's convention, held from July 3-6 in Adelaide, Australia, the establishment of a South Pacific whale sanctuary became the bone of contention between pro and …
Broken Hill Proprietary Corporation (BHP), an Australian minerals, energy and steel company, will contest charges of polluting fish habitats near its isolated Ekati diamond mine in the North West Territories in Canada. Certain Canadian government agencies had made the allegations three years ago. According to them BHP committed eight violations …
Scientists at the Australian Museum in Sydney say that they are close to bringing back the extinct Tasmanian tiger to life. The animal became extinct in 1936. According to a report in London's The Telegraph , the scientists have been working on this project for over a year, after they …
a huge underground reservoir filled with water has been discovered by a mining company in West Australia. According to the company's officials, there is enough water in the reservoir to supply Perth for the next 4,000 years. Anaconda Nickel Ltd ( anl ), the mining company that came upon the …
the government in Australia has severely criticised the listing of koalas ( Phascolarctos cinereus ) as a threatened species under the us law, claiming that the move misrepresents the animal's status. According to the Australian government, the us move would hardly boost conservation efforts and would only affect trade in …
australia has for the first time expressed concerns over the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol that sets an international agenda to cut greenhouse gas emissions from 2002. It feels that political pressure in the us due to the presidential election in November would impede attempts to set a pace on …
genetically modified ( gm ) canola plants, grown in secrecy for experimental purposes, have been carelessly dumped in an open commercial rubbish site, triggering off environmental concerns in the South Australian city of Mount Gambier. These herbicide-resistant "super weeds" are almost impossible to eradicate and Federal government experts have issued …
diverted for farm irrigation, dams and towns use of its waters, the once-mighty Murray river at present flows into the sea in a trickle. Worse, the river has a high level of pollution by the time it enters the sea near Adelaide, capital of the state of South Australia. At …
