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, …
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SCIENTISTS are studying the potential for a new, more potent strain of the rabbitkilling calicivirus after the failure of the existing virus in large parts of Australia's temperate regions. The government's chief scientist, Brian Cooke, said after the calicivirus' stunning debut in Australia's arid regions, the calicivirus was performing well …
THE Australian government has proposed to grant Aborginal title claims to two parcels of land in the Northern Territory (NT). Two claims by Aboriginal groups, Innesvale claim, covering 283,700 hectares (ha), and the Urrpantyenye claim, covering 6,554 ha, would bring the number of Aboriginal land holdings in the NT under …
The Australian government has launched a us $220 million rescue plan for the Great Artesian Basin, where water is increasingly getting depleted due to over- exploitation and wastage. The 1,71 1,000-square-km basin a vast, subterranean "dish" of sandstone laden with water and created more than 195 million years ago in …
A VIRUS that has left more than 2,500 km of South Australia's coast littered with millions of rotting pilchard fish could reach Victorian waters in just over a week. The herpes-related virus that causes lesions on the pilchards' gills is moving steadily towards Victoria. It is a repetition of a …
THE residents of Melbourne have been urged to use water sparingly. Restrictions were imposed due to depletion of local water supplies. Geelong residents, who have been enduring similar restrictions since February, could face even tighter controls over summer. Despite good rains, water authorities across the state have been struggling to …
A NEW revolutionary energy process could end up powering cities and industries in the next century, says a team of Australian scientists. The scientists, who conducted a feasibility study, suggested that a hybrid solar fossil fuel system has the potential to produce sustainable amount of power, while emitting very little …
THE whale shark is one of the biggest, mysterious and until recently, least loved of all marine creatures. They are the world's largest fish, growing up to 12 metres long and weighing up to 11 tonne. But the size does not neccesarily mean that they are easily visible. Until 10 …
Aviation history was made recently when an unpiloted aircraft flew over the Atlantic safely for the very first time. The designers of this remarkable robot plane say the breakthrough could eventually lead to improved weather forecasting. The robot aircraft, designed research teams based in Australia and the US, flew from …
THEY say art imitates life and, occasionally, vice versa. Now we have technology, not imitating life, but listing it. And the technological wonder in question here is the all-pervasive Internet. Net experts say a complete list of the world's known 1.5 million species could be available on the World Wide …
FINDINGS show record levels of dangerous parasites in Sydney's water. And the real culprits are harmless algae, says ferry Ongerth, a consultant in the board dealing with contamination crises. He says the levels of cryptosporidium and giardia found in most recent health department samples are "as high as you would …
THE United Nations (UN) initiative to grant indigenous people the right to self-government has come under severe criticism from the leader of Australia's One Nation Party, Pauline Hanson. Hanson's speech stating that the declaration supporting "self-determination" for indigenous people would destroy Australia's sovereignty has forced the Australian government to review …
THE bandicoots living in a predator-proof section of the Woodlands Historic Reserve north of Melbourne, Australia, have declined from 600 to about 20 over the past two years, largely due to over-grazing by an out-of-control population of kangaroos. Animal Hberationists and the state government have been blamed for causing the …
IF WASYL UROSDOWSKY is right then La Nina, the little sister of El Nino, is all set to hit Indonesia. Drosdowsky, a Melbourne-based weather scientist with the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre in the Australian state of Victoria, is of the opinion that though La Nina is expected to bring …
THIRTY nine men have died so far after taking the anti-impotency drug Viagra, confirms the us Food and Drug Administration (PDA). About 85 per cent of the patients were found to have one or more risk factors related to coronary artery disease. Almost half the victims died within three hours …
HUNDREDS of Australians die every year because they do not take asthma medication as directed, warn respiratory specialists. The National Asthma Campaign (NAC) reports that half of the country's asthmatics are not taking medicines as directed. And one in four asthmatics take their medicine only when they feel "out of …
CONSTRUCTION unions in Australia have vowed to go on a strike if a proposed waste dump for the obsolete Niddrie Quarry in Melbourne goes ahead. About a thousand locals attended a protest meeting in a park where an access road will be built to give trucks access to the dump. …
The ocean covered about half the surface area of other continents seventy million years ago. However, Australia managed to stay dry. How did it happen? Geophysicist Michael Gurnis of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, USA, may have the answer. During this period, Australia was 250 metres higher than …
fifty five million years ago, one trillion tonnes of methane suddenly burst out of the ocean, shooting up the temperatures and killing thousands of species in the ocean depths. The first evidence of this prehistoric event was unearthed by researchers in 1991. But they were not sure of the causes …
" dig deep', that must be the standing motto when it comes to archaeology. Travelling across the world to far-away excavation sites, salvaging ruins of ancient civilisations, unlocking the secrets of unknown or long-forgotten cultures
