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, …
International studies of the health of Indigenous and tribal peoples provide important public health insights. Reliable data are required for the development of policy and health services. Previous studies document poorer outcomes for Indigenous peoples compared with benchmark populations, but have been restricted in their coverage of countries or the …
On a beach in Sydney's Botany Bay, Dave West from the Boomerang Alliance shows the small bits of plastic that get into our food chain. State and territory bans on plastic bags, an immediate ban on microbeads and container deposit schemes across the country by 2020 are among recommendations made …
Corals in the Great Barrier Reef currently have a protective mechanism against bleaching. However, a study has found the mechanism is vulnerable to failure as the ocean permanently warms due to climate change. This could lead to mass coral bleaching within 40 years, experts have warned. Corals have a symbiotic …
The giant coral bleaching event that is devastating wide swathes of the Great Barrier Reef has extended all the way south to Sydney Harbour, researchers say. The harbour's surface temperature reached 26 degrees at times during a prolonged marine heatwave in recent months that had also set records for parts …
Air quality across Australia has deteriorated to alarming levels with the coal industry the nation's worst polluter, new data has shown. The most concerning rise in air pollution is from PM10, a coarse pollution particle about the width of a human hair. Nationally, total PM10 emissions have increased 69 per …
Anti-Adani Wangan and Jagalingou Family Council says it will launch a federal court challenge over ‘sham meeting’ to endorse Carmichael mine Traditional land owners have voted in favour of allowing a coalmine to be opened by Adani in central Queensland, but some from the Indigenous group have labelled the vote …
Long-term climate change goals will be missed, and clean energy investment will stagnate, if Australia does not start forcing its dirty coal-fired power plants to close, new analysis has found. Economic modelling commissioned by the Climate Institute also suggests that putting off closure until after 2030 would force the country …
A new report has concluded that even the most efficient coal plants are incompatible with global climate change goals. With world leaders heading to New York to sign the Paris Climate Change Agreement, a new report conducted by Ecofys and commissioned by WWF has concluded that any level of coal-fired …
A heat surge from global warming would overwhelm the natural ability of coral in Australia's Great Barrier Reef to survive seasonal temperature changes, in much the way sun bathers would burn if they did not build their tan slowly. A study released on Thursday examined 27 years of temperature data …
Australia, along with the rest of the world, must decarbonise its energy sector by 2050 to have any hope of averting dangerous climate change, and the Climate Institute has released research to help get there. The report, A Switch in Time: Enabling the electricity sector’s transition to net zero emissions, …
MELBOURNE, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Australia will hold the first "Ocean in a High CO2 World" symposium hosted in the southern hemisphere, with world-leading experts assembling to discuss solutions to the ongoing acidification of the seven seas. The international conference, convened every four years, will be held in the Tasmanian …
The chance of a La Nina in 2016 has increased in recent weeks, with climate models indicating a 50 percent possibility of the weather event emerging this year, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said on Tuesday. The potential emergence of a La Nina comes as the strongest El Nino …
The mass coral bleaching event smashing the Great Barrier Reef has severely affected more than half its length and caused patches of bleaching in most areas, according to scientists conducting an extensive aerial survey of the damage. “The good news with my last flight is that I found 50 reefs …
Beautiful, healthy environments are more than just eye candy -- in fact according to a report commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund, healthy environments boost local economies. Unfortunately, it seems that many United Nations World Heritage Sites are under severe threat, with the locals being threatened along with them. The …
Study finds protecting a single type of herbivorous fish could be crucial to the recovery of reefs from damage related to climate change Limiting the take of just one type of fish could protect coral reefs around the world from the most serious immediate impacts of climate change, researchers have …
The Queensland government’s approval of leases for Adani’s Carmichael mine, Australia’s largest proposed coal project, was “economic stupidity and environmental insanity”, a protest rally heard on Monday. The Queensland Greens Senate candidate and former Australian Democrats leader Andrew Bartlett told the demonstration outside Queensland’s parliament house the approval could jeopardise …
On a beach in Sydney's Botany Bay, Dave West from the Boomerang Alliance shows the small bits of plastic that get into our food chain. The beverage industry has "finally acknowledged" that four per cent of all beverage containers in NSW are littered, green groups say. The admission came when …
India's Adani Enterprises Ltd was granted approval by Australia's Queensland state government on Sunday to proceed with its proposed A$10 billion ($7.7 billion) Carmichael coal project in the Galilee Basin. Queensland Premier Annastascia Palaszczuk said the approvals gave Adani permission to mine coal reserves estimated at 11 billion tonnes and …
Scientists’ findings that Reef 2050 Plan water quality targets will probably not be met come as Queensland government gives green light to Australia’s largest coalmine Australia is unlikely to meet water quality targets designed to protect the Great Barrier Reef, researchers from the federal government’s marine science agency have warned. …
The future of Australiaâ™s premier science organisation, the CSIRO, has again being placed in doubt by indications that 'doing science for science sake' will not be part of its strategy. Australia's national science organisation planned to stop "doing science for science sake" and would no longer do "public good" work …
