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, …
Inhalers may lead to an added risk of acquiring cataract for asthma sufferers, according to a study conducted by the University of Sydney, Australia. A team led by Robert Cumming claims that 14 per cent of the people in age group of 47 years to 90 years, who use inhalers, …
A fibre-reinforced plastic bolt has been developed in Australia that is stronger than steel. The bolt has been designed for use such as a stabiliser for roofs and walls in underground tunnels. It can also be used in the aerospace industry. It is very expensive to install plastic products in …
the development of a genetically engineered virus as a birth control measure is causing controversy in Australia. The virus has been developed to contain the growing populations of mice and other pests. Some scientists say the contraceptive viruses could prove to be an ecological disaster if non-targeted species are infected …
A new method of treating or preventing malaria has come to light with the discovery of the protein that makes the disease lethal. The parasite Plasmodium falciparum , that causes cerebral malaria, annually infects about 300 million people, of which two to three million die. The parasite invades red blood …
the funnel web spider is feared throughout Australia. One of the world's deadliest spiders, its venom can kill humans. But Glenn King, a biochemist, and Merlin Howden, a pharmacologist from the University of Sidney have concluded that the spider could be the means of a pesticide that does not harm …
a huge stockpile of lethal waste has been discovered next to the 2000 Olympics site in Sydney which is contaminated with poisonous dioxins. Greepeace, the international green group, has found shocking levels of dioxins, almost 60 times higher than the levels produced by the world's first major dioxin accident in …
An international team of geologists led by Peter Davies of the University of Sydney feel that Australia's Great Barrier Reef is a lot younger than what it is believed to be. It may have been part of the driving force behind a mysteriously hot period on Earth around 4,00,000 years …
ABORIGINES in Australia live 15 to 20 years less than the white population, says a recently published report citing data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. They are 15 to 18 times more likely to die of infectious diseases and their babies …
Australian chemists have developed a simple test kit, which could help prevent millions of Africans from being poisoned by the cyanide that occurs naturally in cassava, their staple food. The test involves mixing 100 mg of cassava with 0.5 ml of water. The mixture is then placed on paper containing …
BIOLOGICAL waste will now be recycled to feed fish. A joint project has been undertaken by the University of Queensland, Australia, and state and industry researchers to process waste to feed crayfish and silver perch. The project will reduce the adverse environmental impact of waste products from the intensive livestock …
GETTING drinking water by immediate purification of sewage, inconceivable sopme years back, is now a reality. An Australian company, Memtec, has successfully used microfiltration technology to purify sewage in a small town in the UK. The town had for the past 30 years been dumping untreated sewage into the sea. …
A serious debate has been going on since 1995 among virologists and wildlife biologists whether the rabbit calicivirus (RCV), which causes blood to clot in the lungs, heart and kidneys of the rabbits, and results in their death is acceptable as an efficient way for getting rid of the rabbit …
Biologists in Australia and Japan have genetically engineered tobacco plants so that they destroy their own seeds. They say the same technique should work in citrus crops. Anna Koltunow of the division of horticulture of the CSIRO, Australia's national research agency in Adelaide, and Fumio Takaiwa of Japan's National Institute …
A research team based in Queensland, Australia, has shattered the world drilling record with jets of water in a coal seam. The team drilled 123 m underground into the coal seam at the German Creek Mine in Central Queensland. This is about three times deeper than has ever been drilled …
The existence of laws and policies in Australia that affect wetland protection and rehabilitation has been ascertained. There is a diverse range of environmental legislation, primarily at the state level, that potentially affects wetlands. There are environmental planning instruments made under legislation in New South Wales and Western Australia, which …
if it was the rabbit before, it is now the cat which has taken Australia by its whiskers! Approximately 12 million house cats, another imported species, have multiplied in great numbers and have taken over the island continent killing many indigenous species. Among them are the pig-footed bandicoot, the brush-tailed …
The effects of a rise in temperatures are becoming increasingly evident in the Antarctic region, and the worst sufferers seem to be the local fauna. With mean temperatures having risen by 1
On the beginning of the world's first green party: It all began in 1970. The Tasmanian government had decided to build a major power station which would have drowned the magnificent Lake Peddar. The campaign against the government's decision was started by a group of Tasmanian environmentalists who contested the …
as the world debates the issue of indigenous people's rights, aborigines in Australia have taken recourse to law to press for their land rights. The Canberra High Court recently passed an order supporting aboriginal groups who have staked claim to tribal lands leased by state governments to cattle and sheep …
