3rd September 2010

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Tag: climate-change

  • Icon_camera Trees save lives in heatwaves, say experts

    Created Fri, 3rd of Sep 2010

    Trees are known to give a range of environmental benefits, but new research suggests that they are are also playing an important role in saving human lives during heatwaves. A national tree ... more

  • Icon_camera Climate panel review demands major shake-up

    Created Tue, 31st of Aug 2010

    A shake-up has been recommended for the United Nations' climate panel, a body which came under fire recently in the so-called "Climategate" scandal. A new report, released at the United Nations in ... more

  • Kangaroo Valley winning the carbon challenge

    Created Mon, 30th of Aug 2010

    A community in New South Wales is aiming to become one of the most eco-friendly tourist destinations in the world. Three years ago tourist operators in Kangaroo Valley, 150 kilometres south of ... more

  • Dump project tackles greenhouse gases

    Created Mon, 30th of Aug 2010

    A Coffs Harbour project that extracts gas from landfill is helping tackle climate change in the region. A plant at the Englands Road tip is the first of its kind in the region capturing harmful ... more

  • Greens reaped rewards of emissions backflip: poll

    Created Mon, 30th of Aug 2010

    An exit poll commissioned by the Climate Institute shows almost one third of Greens voters in key marginal seats would have voted Labor if the introduction of the emissions trading scheme had not ... more

  • UN hopes science review eases climate scepticism

    Created Sun, 29th of Aug 2010

    A review due on Monday can help restore public faith in the United Nations panel of climate scientists and its finding that global warming is man made despite errors in a 2007 report, the UN's ... more

  • Icon_camera Labor candidate contradicts PM on carbon tax

    Created Fri, 20th of Aug 2010

    The Labor Member for the Darwin-based seat of Solomon has contradicted Prime Minister Julia Gillard on the issue of a carbon tax. Damian Hale won the seat of Solomon in 2007 by about 200 ... more

  • Coalition offers farmers a carbon credit scheme

    Created Thu, 19th of Aug 2010

    The Coalition is pledging a $2.5 billion Emissions Reduction Fund which will allow farmers to reduce emissions and sell their carbon credits to the Federal Government. The Coalition's spokesperson ... more

  • UN calls for urgent probe into weather shifts

    Created Thu, 19th of Aug 2010

    UN officials have called on climate scientists to urgently look into changes in atmospheric currents linked to devastating floods in Pakistan and wildfires in Russia. Ghassem Asrar, director of ... more

  • Icon_camera Scientists map out wave energy hotspots

    Created Wed, 18th of Aug 2010

    Australian scientists have mapped out the best places across the nation's southern coast for generating wave energy, all the way from Geraldton in Western Australia to King Island in Tasmania. A ... more

  • Qld professor to lead UN study

    Created Tue, 17th of Aug 2010

    A southern Queensland climatologist has been appointed to head a United Nations (UN) study into how climate change is affecting agriculture. Professor Roger Stone, from the University of Southern ... more

  • Icon_camera Report aims to combat climate 'misinformation'

    Created Mon, 16th of Aug 2010

    Some of the nation's top scientists have united in a new climate statement which issues fresh warnings about the dangers of global warming. The statement released by the Australian Academy of ... more

  • Sceptics to challenge climate science in court

    Created Mon, 16th of Aug 2010

    Climate change sceptics in New Zealand are taking the government's climate agency to court over the validity of its evidence on global warming. The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition has ... more

  • Icon_camera Gillard speech left out economic plan: Abbott

    Created Mon, 16th of Aug 2010

    Prime Minister Julia Gillard has come under attack for failing to outline an economic plan and address climate change at Labor's official campaign launch in Brisbane. Ms Gillard today set out her ... more

  • Expert predicts carbon cash bonanza

    Created Mon, 16th of Aug 2010

    An expert in geoscience from the Southern Cross University says the Federal Government may have underestimated the worth of its new carbon-trading scheme. Labor has promised to spend 46 million ... more


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