Australia confronts cold facts
Sydney Morning Herald: THE Minister for Climate Change, Penny Wong, warns the Government’s plan to cut greenhouse gases will produce the biggest shake-up to the economy in decades, and she has promised to set out by July how households and businesses will be hit. Senator Wong unveiled her timetable as the United [...]
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Trials & Tribulations of Queensland’s Climate Change
There are times, in the Daintree Cape Tribulation rainforest, when rainfall is so overly abundant that it w
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Popularity: 16% [?]
Australia: The future of the Murray-Darling
Science Alert: There are three reasons to believe that the central role played by the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) in Australian agricultural production is unlikely to continue much into the 21st century. The first is climate change. The second is an increased understanding of the relationships among surface water, groundwater and [...]
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Climate change scheme two years away: Wong
Penny Wong says Australia will be emissions trading by 2010.
Popularity: 46% [?]
Popularity: 46% [?]
Caring for our Country - better land management, less red tape
The Federal Government will invest $2.25 billion over five years on a new program to restore the [...]
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Australia ‘must commit to 25pc emissions cut’
Climate change expert tells Australia to cut CO2 emissions by 25pc by 2020.
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Popularity: 17% [?]
Senator Wong may visit Lower Lakes in near future (The Murray Valley Standard)
CLIMATE Change and Water Minister Senator Penny Wong has been unable to justify why key irrigation leaders were not invited to her visit to Swanport Wetland a week ago.
Popularity: 49% [?]
Popularity: 49% [?]
Australia: Cut emissions in short-term, too: IPCC
Scopical: Australia has been told to cut its carbon dioxide emissions by at least 25?y the year 2020, if it is to be taken seriously in defeating climate change by other Kyoto members. The Kyoto Protocol was officially ratified in Australia this week, with documentation being approved by the [...]
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Nation told it must aim to be carbon neutral
A LEADING authority on climate change says Australia’s greenhouse gas reduction targets are inadequate, and all industrialised countries should be aiming to become carbon neutral.
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Popularity: 23% [?]
Australia: Save seeds, bank on our future
Daily Telegraph: MORE than 1000 Australian plant species are known to be at risk of extinction, and climate change adds further pressure. Governments and communities are working hard to protect our environment, but a Seedbank provides a good insurance policy. The Mount Annan Botanic Garden is home to the [...]
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