TreehuggerFeature: Turning household wastes into energy
Australian researchers are working hard to turn our biodegradable waste into energy, writes Carmelo Amalfi.
Tougher targets needed for Australia’s renewables
Environmental experts say the Australia Government’s renewable energy targets aren’t aggressive enough to impact on global warming.The Population Health Congress in Brisbane has heard climate change will eventually expose Australians to greater heat extremes, weather events and changes in infectious…
Tourists prepared to pay for eco-friendly holidays
A report has found most Australian consumers support ‘green tourism’. The Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre rated people’s attitudes towards the environment and how it affected their holiday…
Farmers talk tough on emissions trading scheme
Farmers say an emissions trading scheme would reduce Australia’s competitiveness on world markets.
Australia’s Climate Change Report Reads “Like a Disaster Novel”
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The conclusions of a new report written by Australia’s top climate scientists are grim: Heatwaves are expected to increase 10-fold while droughts will almost double in number and become more widespread — possibly impacting an area twice as large as now. Rainfall is also projected to continue its long decline throughout the country.The report’s release prompted agriculture minister Tony Burke to compare the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO’s (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) findings to “a disaster novel,” according to…
Rare shark’s genome mapped
Australian scientists have mapped the genome of a threatened shark genus, a breakthrough that will hopefully help ensure its survival.
Feature: Green gold
Australian research is helping the gold mining industry in its search to replace cyanide with a safer alternative, reports Tony Malkovic.
Govt releases paper on renewable energy target
The Federal Government has released a discussion paper that outlines two ways it could phase in its renewable energy target by 2020. The Commonwealth wants renewable sources to provide 20 per cent of the country’s energy by that…
RMIT’s eco-friendly campus unveiled
RMIT’s new $56 million Design Hub building in Melbourne will incorporate evironmentally responsible design with an outer skin of 16,000 sand blasted glass cells, some of which will be photovoltaic solar power collectors to help shade and power the…
Bright ideas sought to take heat out of sloar
CALLING all solar enthusiasts in Lismore. Lismore men Gordon Fraser-Quick and Laurie Axtens want your help to find a way to get a mass roll-out of solar power around…