Heavy rain on the way
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Melbourne :: Australia | updated 2013-05-29 23:04:50 -0700 | green-news
Some of the water will run across the ground to low-lying areas and not fully soak in where it is needed most. Heavy and gusty thunderstorms are also a threat, so people should beware." Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Richard...
Researchers make more accurate global warming predictions
Source: Zee News
Melbourne :: Australia | updated 2013-05-27 07:04:47 -0700 | green-news
Australian scientists claimed to have narrowed down the predicted range of global warming which will lead to more accuracy while projecting future level of rise in temperature due to climate change. Scientists from University of Melbourne and Victoria University say...
Lasers check the pulse of Wombat Forest
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated 2013-05-24 07:59:13 -0700 | green-news
Melbourne University's Anne Griebel says the measurements help to reveal how the forest responds to climate change. Photo: Angela Wylie In an isolated pocket of the Wombat State Forest, Anne Griebel is using laser sensors to uncover environmental secrets concealed...
Cosy moments may fail to keep the home fires burning
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated 2013-05-24 07:59:07 -0700 | green-news
A lung specialist told a Senate inquiry into the effect of air quality on health last month that there was no safe threshold for the fine-particle pollution from wood-burning heaters. Ms Pickles uses the two fireplaces sparingly when she is...
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...
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...
Leadership for health equality and self-regulation in ATSI communities
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated 2013-05-12 16:49:44 -0700 | green-news
Date May 13, 2013 Read later Professor Kerry Arabena is the newly appointed Chair of Indigenous Health at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health spoke about the challenges facing Indigenous Australians, and why local and global leadership is...
Plan to offset city sprawl
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated 2013-05-12 08:59:11 -0700 | green-news
Developers will pay almost $1 billion over the next four decades under a plan the state government says will create at least 38 new reserves, among them a 15,000- hectare site on the city's western fringe that could become the...
Tas Tarkine mine halted by court action
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated 2013-05-10 01:46:34 -0700 | green-news
Construction of an iron ore mine in Tasmania's Tarkine region has been halted by a Federal Court injunction sought by environmentalists. Justice Shane Marshall granted a temporary injunction on Friday preventing Shree Minerals from working on its Nelson Bay River...
Liberal MPs want rethink on Coalition's climate change plan
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated 2013-05-09 07:19:09 -0700 | green-news
Alex Ellinghausen Two Liberal MPs want Tony Abbott to review or consider abandoning parts of his $3.2 billion plan to combat climate change in light of ''dire economic circumstances''. Mal Washer and Dennis Jensen made the comments about the Coalition's...
Trout moved out to give Galaxias breathing space
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated 2013-05-08 15:02:06 -0700 | green-news
Anglers, scientists and government agencies have formed a rare alliance to protect a critically endangered alpine fish that until recently wasn't even recognised as a species. The tiny Shaw Galaxias, found at the top of a small creek in the...
Mine's 200-year threat to water
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated 2013-05-07 08:34:16 -0700 | green-news
Dean Sewell A new open-cut coalmine in Queensland, to be dug by Clive Palmer's Waratah Coal company, could affect water supplies in the region for up to 200 years. The central Queensland mine would also cut the Bimblebox Nature Refuge...
Reserve under threat from Palmer's mine
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated 2013-05-06 07:48:52 -0700 | green-news
Courtesy Bimblebox Nature Refuge The owners of an 8000 hectare nature reserve under threat by Clive Palmer's proposed Galilee Basin coal mine fear they will not be able to afford legal action if the mine is approved. Public submissions into...
Just the ticket for anti-coal protesters
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Melbourne :: Australia | updated 2013-05-24 01:35:25 -0700 | green-news
Protesters demanding an end to the coal industry and greater support for renewable energy have unfurled a giant banner at Melbourne's Flinders Street railway station...They expect to be charged with trespass when the protest ends. While Victoria's Premier Denis Napthine...
Farmers in the dark on future drought aid
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated 2013-05-03 00:43:50 -0700 | green-news
State and territory governments signed up on Friday to five elements of the federal government's national drought policy at a meeting in Sydney. The policy, to take effect from July 2014, commits to a national approach to business training, social...
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