SHOCKING Before And After Pictures Of How Climate Change Is Destroying The Earth
Source: BusinessInsider
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-21 17:22:35 -0700 | green-news
Rising global temperatures, largely due to man-made greenhouse gases , are the source of widely-discussed observable changes to the Earth like melting glaciers, rising sea levels, warming oceans, and more extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, droughts, forest fires, and...
State government sued over threatened species
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated 2013-05-21 09:41:31 -0700 | green-news
Tegan Osborne Environmentalists have launched Supreme Court action suing the state government over a failure to draw up plans for the survival of threatened species. In documents lodged with the court late on Tuesday, the Environment Defenders Office allege the...
7 Signs We Are Heading for a Mass Extinction
Source: io9
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-20 11:03:54 -0700 | green-news
Today, many scientists believe we are on the cusp of a sixth mass extinction which could wipe out most life on Earth as we know it...A mass extinction happens when over 75 percent of all species on the planet die...
Geoengineering: Can We Save the Planet By Messing With Nature?
Source: Democracy Now
Canberra :: Australia | updated 2013-05-20 07:19:42 -0700 | green-news
This is viewer supported news As the carbon dioxide in the air hits 400 parts per million for the first time in human history, some are arguing that the best way address climate change is to use the controversial practice...
Paul B. Farrell: $10 trillion in X-Prizes needed to save the world
Source: MarketWatch
Canberra :: Australia | updated 2013-05-18 03:39:09 -0700 | green-news
Calif. (MarketWatch) Yes, X-Prize billionaires are failing their mission: Making the Impossible Possible. Now they need at least $10 trillion to save the world, and a far grander vision, the new 10X-Prizes. And their leader, Dr. Peter Diamandis, the co-author...
Australia issues RFT for radar development
Source: United Press International
Canberra :: Australia | updated 2013-05-17 10:44:47 -0700 | green-news
Australia's CEA Technologies has received a Request for Tender for development of a High Power Phased Array Radar concept demonstrator. Royal Australian Navy's Future Frigates through Project SEA 5000," said Minister for Defense Materiel Mike Kelly.
Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding
Source: The Nation
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-17 03:27:55 -0700 | green-news
Australia with total capacity of 4,000 MW, which will start in late 2013. This round of investment would be a joint venture with an international partner with which the company is negotiating...Australian government for a license for constructions of 2...
Australia seeks to outlaw any repeat of Canadian incident of 'ocean fertilization'
Posted by: Robert Myles
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-23 22:52:13 -0700 | green-news
Australia is to press for a ban on geoengineering the oceans with iron sulphate, a process which came to prominence last year after an attempt was made to augment salmon stocks off the Canadian Pacific coast by adding chemicals to...
Obama makes Aussie campaigner's day
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-16 20:40:51 -0700 | green-news
Saul Loeb, AFP It's the social media equivalent of hitting the jackpot: having your study retweeted by US President Barack Obama. Australian researcher John Cook, an expert in climate change communication, was inundated with requests for interviews by US media...
Coalition carbon price cut immoral: Combet
Source: The Courier-Mail
Canberra :: Australia | updated 2013-05-16 20:00:13 -0700 | green-news
Climate Change Minister Greg Combet on Friday said plans by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to scrap the scheme would leave a $20.7 billion hole in the forward estimates. "He's given us no indication at all how he would achieve those...
New flood tax planned for Queensland
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated 2013-05-16 19:23:02 -0700 | green-news
The levy and a dedicated fund for the projects will be outlined in the Queensland budget next month, the Courier-Mail reports. The tax will be imposed on household bills such as electricity or water and the government hopes to raise...
Miners falling short on Indigenous consultation: Oxfam
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-16 19:11:37 -0700 | green-news
A study by Oxfam Australia found that only one of the 53 biggest miners on the Australian stock exchange had a public commitment to the United Nation's principles of informed consent for Indigenous people. Oxfam Australia chief executive, Helen Szoke,...
Vic bushfires lead to logging reduction
Source: The Courier-Mail
Brisbane :: Australia | updated 2013-05-16 19:09:16 -0700 | green-news
Victoria's ash forests will be reduced by more than 25 per cent from 2017 due to the impact of the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. The amount of timber harvested will be reduced from 300,000 cubic metres of high quality ash...
Australian coal miners face China cap
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Gladstone :: Australia | updated 2013-05-16 16:37:13 -0700 | green-news
Australia's plans for new coal mines and expansions of old ones that will come on stream in five to 10 years will probably be the most affected because there will be a serious mismatch, she said. You will be ready...
Our incredible world at night: Pictures showcase wonders of nature and light-polluted cities in ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-15 15:09:40 -0700 | green-news
15 May 2013 They are ethereal images which show the beauty of the night-sky from around the world. But despite initially appearing to celebrate the wonders of light above dark cities and rural landscapes, these impressive photographs also highlight concerns...
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