Mining promises too bold, concedes SA Premier
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Alice Springs :: Australia | updated 2013-04-22 23:02:51 -0700 | green-news
Rare earths company Arafura Resources is to scrap a minerals processing plant planned for Whyalla and keep more of its operations close to the mine site north of Alice Springs. Mr Weatherill said he agreed with the Opposition the Government...
UN concerned by potential uranium port near reef
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Townsville :: Australia | updated 2013-04-22 03:51:40 -0700 | green-news
Queensland Mines Minister Andrew Cripps says once the uranium industry becomes commercially viable, a case would have to be made to have a licensed port off the east coast, and he has not ruled out Townsville. "In the event that...
Freezing frog eggs could save fish
Source: The Courier-Mail
Newcastle :: Australia | updated 2013-04-21 21:58:30 -0700 | green-news
A NEW technique that enables scientists to freeze frog eggs and store genetic information could help conserve other species facing extinction, researchers say. A University of Newcastle team has developed a world-first method of retaining frog genomes by freezing their...
NSW cockatoos studied with new app
Source: The Courier-Mail
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-04-21 20:53:07 -0700 | green-news
Sydney's population of sulphur-crested cockatoos is increasing. NSW Environment Minister Robyn Parker said the birds were rare in Sydney 50 years ago but their screeching presence is now commonplace. "The sulphur-crested cockatoo is very well known in Sydney today, and...
Last decades of the 20th century the hottest for 1400 years
Source: The Age
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-04-21 11:00:04 -0700 | green-news
Warming during the 20th century produced the hottest global average temperatures in 1400 years, new research has found. In a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience on Monday, an international team of scientists reconstructed temperatures over the past 2000...
Bitten by the outback bio blitz
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated 2013-04-21 16:34:05 -0700 | green-news
environmental scientists camp at Naree Station outside Bourke. Photo: Eddie Jim For most people, being bitten by a carnivorous marsupial before breakfast is not the best start to the day. But for applied ecologist Jim Radford, when a feisty stripe-faced...
Report warns of 'unburnable carbon scenario'
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-04-20 12:17:05 -0700 | green-news
13 British researchers are warning that effective action on climate change could trigger a new global economic crisis by devaluing the price of fossil fuels. The report, by the London School of Economics and the non-government organisation Carbon Tracker ,...
Raid uncovers dozens of exotic animal skulls
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-04-19 03:14:56 -0700 | green-news
John Kolettas has pleaded guilty in Parramatta local court to more than 20 charges of possessing illegal wildlife products made from endangered species...The Federal Environment Department says the raid resulted in one of the biggest illegal wildlife seizures it has...
Tassie devils revel on island home
Source: The Courier-Mail
Brisbane :: Australia | updated 2013-04-19 01:44:49 -0700 | green-news
Fifteen healthy devils were released on Maria Island, off Tasmania's east coast, five months ago and that population is set to double with the group already breeding. Pouch young have been found in five females trapped as part of the...
Buoy! What a journey as tagged turtle released
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-04-19 00:21:55 -0700 | green-news
Sanctuary has released a tagged turtle who swims with only three flippers, after 20 months of rehabilitation. Buoy is one of the first turtles to be tagged before being released this far south in Australia. His progress will provide invaluable...
110km/h winds to hit Sydney, NSW coast
Source: The Age
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-04-18 16:43:44 -0700 | green-news
A severe weather warning is in place for people in Sydney, the Hunter, Illawarra, South Coast and Snowy Mountains districts. Damaging winds of around 65km/h, with high gusts of 110km/h, are forecast to hit late Friday morning, the Bureau of...
Indiaa€™s maiden Mars mission on time: ISRO
Source: Zee News
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-04-18 12:47:16 -0700 | green-news
Rs 450-crore Mars Orbiter Mission, scheduled to be launched in November this year will take place as per the plan. Comet C/2013 A1, discovered on January 3 by Rob McNaught at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia, is crashing into...
Abbott to win over G4 on climate action
Source: The Courier-Mail
Brisbane :: Australia | updated 2013-04-18 07:22:50 -0700 | green-news
Leader Tony Abbott has plans to play a lead role in convincing China and the United States to sign up for a global climate change deal if he wins government. Opposition climate change spokesman Greg Hunt said under a coalition...
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Perth :: Australia | updated 2013-04-18 05:47:20 -0700 | green-news
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Chance of plant explosion in Australia 'remote'
Source: The Age
Brisbane :: Australia | updated 2013-04-18 13:32:00 -0700 | green-news
Australia is one of the world's largest producers of ammonium nitrate, the combustible chemical used in fertilisers, but chances of a repeat of the tragic explosion at the plant in Waco, Texas are remote, according to industry and safety experts....
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