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, …
The 2016 Australian election is the last opportunity to save the Great Barrier Reef, the authors of a new scientific paper have warned. The government needs to commit to $1bn a year for 10 years to reduce water pollution, which would give the reef a chance to survive the impacts …
The McArthur River mine in the Northern Territory – one of the world’s biggest zinc, lead and silver mines – must shut immediately and owner Glencore must cover the clean-up costs, say traditional owners who will protest outside the company’s headquarters in Sydney on Thursday. Coinciding with Glencore’s annual general …
More than 30 environmental groups have signed a statement demanding that agreements allowing the logging of Australian native forests not be renewed. Australia’s 10 regional forestry agreements (RFAs) were signed between 1997 and 2001, each running for 20 years, with the first two expiring in 2017. The agreements between state …
Southern Hemisphere carbon dioxide (CO2) levels have risen above the 400ppm limit, and this has made scientists worried. The 400ppm level is a significant marker for rising greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming and ocean acidification. An important atmospheric monitoring station in north-west Tasmania confirmed the status that …
The 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in the state of Victoria that broke out on February 7 that year rank among Australia’s worst natural disasters. Some 173 people were killed when 400 fires — fuelled by strong winds and an exceptional heatwave — spread rapidly across large swaths of the state. …
The report reveals the influence of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef, and provides strong scientific evidence that future bleaching events are likely to become more frequent and severe. The report found that rising global ocean temperatures, driven by climate change, has been the cause of an extremely severe …
The report reveals the influence of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef, and provides strong scientific evidence that future bleaching events are likely to become more frequent and severe. The report found that rising global ocean temperatures, driven by climate change, has been the cause of an extremely severe …
Climate activists are targeting the role of insurance companies in the expansion of fossil fuel production, highlighting the impact of extreme weather events on their bottom line. “We’ve already targeted banks and super funds, so insurance companies are the next frontier,” said Dan Gocher from the financial activist group Market …
Ninety per cent of the Snowy Mountains brumbies would be culled over the next two decades, under a plan released by the New South Wales government. The draft wild horse management plan for Kosciuszko national park aims to cut the population of wild horses in the park from 6,000 to …
The Great Barrier Reef is currently under siege from coal and climate change. The report was announced by scientists who revealed that 93 percent of the world heritage is presently experiencing severe coral bleaching. The latest event, which is caused by the warming of the ocean, is referred to as …
A recent study showed almost 93% of the reef was suffering from bleaching. Greens’ leader, Richard di Natale, announced a seven-point plan to tax mining and invest the money in revitalising the reef and in clean energy projects and jobs. Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, announced a seven-point plan that …
Unseasonably warm weather across Australia, which is set to continue through the coming month, might be putting a spring in people’s step but is a clear sign of dangerous climate change, according climate scientists and meteorologists. Australia and the rest of the world have been reeling from a string of …
The hot water temperature that drove the devastating bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef this year was made 175 times more likely by human-caused climate change, and could be normal in just 18 years, according to preliminary findings by leading climate and coral reef scientists. The scientists said they took …
Dissection might prove unnecessary when identifying new molluscs after scientists Corey Whisson, Western Australian Museum, and Dr Abraham Breure, Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, the Netherlands, and Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium, described a previously unknown land snail based on its genitalia, yet without damaging the specimen in the slightest. …
The fungus prevents the frogs from maintaining important salt levels, leading to a cardiac arrest. Eggs bred at Taronga Zoo and Zoos Victoria were released into disease-free enclosures within the Kosciuszko National Park this month. It will take six months for them to metamorphose into frogs and then another four …
Adani’s plan for Australia’s largest coalmine faces yet another snag, with a conservation group mounting what is now the eighth legal challenge to the contentious project. The group, Land Services of Coast and Country, filed an appeal for a judicial review of the Queensland government’s environmental approval of the Carmichael …
TEHRAN — Despite the fact that forests across the globe are shrinking at a rate of 0.09 percent annually Iran’s forests expanded 0.98 percent on average per year over the past 15 years, according to a report by the World Bank titled “World Development Indicators: Rural Environment and Land Use”. …
The CSIRO will split its climate science into two, creating a special unit based in Hobart but leaving in doubt the future of at least 50 climate researchers. A new CSIRO Climate Science Centre, foreshadowed by Fairfax Media, will coordinate the work of 40 scientists carved out of existing CSIRO …
A Victorian technology company striving to produce more efficient and cheaper solar power has won financial backing from the national renewable energy agency to expand its plans. RayGen Resources, based in Melbourne, will receive a new $2.9 million government grant to help it commercialise what the company says is ground-breaking …
As one of the most prolific and widespread reef builders, the staghorn coral Acropora holds a disproportionately large role in how coral reefs will respond to accelerating anthropogenic change. We show that although Acropora has a diverse history extended over the past 50 million years, it was not a dominant …
