| Some progress in global climate change talks in Germany
ABC Radio Australia
17 June 2010
Negotiations to get a new global agreement to replace the Kyoto protocol on climate change are at a curious stage.
Whales give carbon a b*m steer
The Sydney Morning Herald
17 June 2010
SPERM whales in the Southern Ocean are doing their bit for the battle against global warming.
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Whales give carbon a b*m steer
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Whales give carbon a b*m steer
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How sperm whale p*o is saving the planet
Barack Obama outlines oil spill ‘battle plan’
The Australian
17 June 2010
BARACK Obama insists he is in command of containing the worst environmental disaster in US history, but admitted it was “like an epidemic” that would be fought for years.
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Full text of Obama’s address to the nation on Gulf oil spill
The West Australian
Obama sets battle plan on oil spill and energy reform
BP CEO grasps ‘terrible reality’ of Gulf of Mexico oil disaster
The Australian
17 June 2010
BP chief executive Tony Hayward will tomorrow tell the US Congress that “I fully grasp the terrible reality” of a damaged well that continues to spew oil across the Gulf of Mexico.
BP fumes at Obama’s reparation demands
The Sydney Morning Herald
17 June 2010
WASHINGTON: Barack Obama was to come face-to-face with BP executives for the first time just hours after describing their company’s actions in the Gulf of Mexico as ”reckless”.
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BP agrees to $20b compensation fund
The Age
BP fumes at Obama’s reparation demands
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BP fumes at Obama’s reparation demands
The Australian
BP agrees $US20bn fund for oil spill in Gulf of Mexico
The West Australian
Obama to demand BP pay for oil spill damage
The Mercury
BP creates $23bn oil spill fund
White House has BP over a barrel as estimate of oil outpouring soars
The Australian
17 June 2010
Professor Jody Freeman, director of the environmental law program at Harvard Law School, said that without Government support BP faced an “avalanche of litigation” that threatened to cripple the oil company and could take decades to resolve in the US courts.
Drill companies use ‘outdated’ oil disaster plans
The Age
17 June 2010
OTHER oil companies are as ill-prepared as BP to stop and clean offshore oil spills because they use carbon-copy disaster plans, US legislators say.
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Drill companies use ‘outdated’ oil disaster plans
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Drill companies use ‘outdated’ oil disaster plans
BP starts burning oil from leaking well
The Sydney Morning Herald
17 June 2010
BP began burning oil siphoned from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday as part of its plans to more than triple the amount of crude it can stop from reaching the sea, the company said.
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BP starts burning oil from leaking well
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BP starts burning oil from leaking well
Addiction to oil is the real crime
The Australian
17 June 2010
ABOUT 10 years ago, I was at a City lunch where the guest of honour was the chairman of one of the world’s biggest oil companies – not BP, but it might as well have been. I asked him why his company had invested so little money in alternative energy projects.
Cleared forests lead to rise in malaria in Brazil
SBS World News Australia
17 June 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Clearing forests in the Amazon helps mosquitoes thrive and can send malaria rates soaring, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
Environmental concerns at desalination site
ABC Online
17 June 2010
The company building the desalination plant near Wonthaggi, south-east of Melbourne, has defended environment protection standards at the site.
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Victoria’s desal plant in trouble over toxic soil
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Victoria’s desal plant in trouble over toxic soil
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Victoria’s desal plant in trouble over toxic soil
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Victoria’s desal plant in trouble over toxic soil
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Victoria’s desal plant in trouble over toxic soil
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Victoria’s desal plant in trouble over toxic soil
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Victoria’s desal plant in trouble over toxic soil
The Mercury
Desal plant in trouble over toxic soil
The Age
Desal builders ordered to fix acid water
The Sydney Morning Herald
Desal builders ordered to fix acid water
The Brisbane Times
Desal builders ordered to fix acid water
Garrett’s position on toxic waste export ‘compromised’
ABC Online
17 June 2010
Questions are being raised over the Environment Minister Peter Garrett’s support for a plan to export toxic waste from his electorate to Denmark.
Chemical stockpile to be sent overseas
The Australian
17 June 2010
A DANGEROUS chemical stockpile in the Sydney electorate of Environment Minister Peter Garrett will be shipped overseas after Danish authorities agreed to help dispose of the waste.
Union puts boot in to miners for pollution
The Northern Territory News
17 June 2010
THE Territory Government should do more to prevent mining companies from “destroying” the environment, a trade union said yesterday.
Forest roundtable axed
The Mercury
17 June 2010
THE State Government has abandoned its attempt to bring together environmentalists and forest industry groups.
Starving flying foxes dying in search for food
ABC Online
17 June 2010
A conservation group says flying foxes in south-east Queensland are starving.
Eco-cemetery provides pollution-free afterlife
ABC Online
17 June 2010
A Sydney cemetery is offering what is claimed to be the city’s first environmentally friendly burial service.
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Sydney gets first natural cemetery
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Sydney gets first natural cemetery
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Sydney gets first natural cemetery
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Sydney gets first natural cemetery
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Sydney gets first natural cemetery
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Sydney gets first natural cemetery
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Sydney gets first natural cemetery
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Sydney gets first natural cemetery
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Sydney gets its first natural cemetery
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Sydney gets its first natural cemetery
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Sydney gets its first natural cemetery
The West Australian
Sydney gets its first natural cemetery
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Sydney gets its first natural cemetery
Domestic ducks raping Australian natives, putting them at risk of extinction
The Australian
17 June 2010
BIG, sexually-aggressive domestic ducks are “raping” Australia’s native ducks and putting them at risk of extinction, it’s been claimed.
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Domestic ducks raping Australian natives, putting them at risk of extinction
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Domestic ducks raping Australian natives, putting them at risk of extinction
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Domestic ducks raping Australian natives, putting them at risk of extinction
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Domestic ducks raping Australian natives, putting them at risk of extinction
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Domestic ducks raping Australian natives, putting them at risk of extinction
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Domestic ducks raping Australian natives, putting them at risk of extinction
The Mercury
Domestic ducks ‘raping’ Australian natives
Murray flows boost irrigation hopes
ABC Online
17 June 2010
The River Murray Minister says it is almost certain irrigation allocations for the start of the new season will be more than double those a year earlier in South Australia.
Move over James Cameron: sea turtle films self, becomes web hit
The Sydney Morning Herald
17 June 2010
Move over James Cameron: a sea turtle found a waterproof camera in the Caribbean, somehow activated the device, filmed itself and is now a YouTube sensation.
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Move over James Cameron: sea turtle films self, becomes web hit
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Move over James Cameron: sea turtle films self, becomes web hit
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Sea turtle films self, becomes web hit
Pictures: New frog species identified
ABC Online
17 June 2010
Here it is – the new frog species discovered in the Flinders Ranges of outback South Australia this month.
Insulation-linked house fires hit Victoria hardest
The Australian
16 June 2010
VICTORIA has had more house fires caused by insulation than any other state, with 74 fires there linked to the Rudd government’s insulation scheme.
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Insulation linked to 18 home fires
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Insulation linked to 18 home fires
The Brisbane Times
Insulation linked to 18 home fires
National mission for clean energy: Obama
The Sydney Morning Herald
16 June 2010
The United States will be fighting the oil spill “epidemic” for months and even years, President Barack Obama warned on Tuesday, urging states to deploy the National Guard to aid the battle.
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National mission for clean energy: Obama
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National mission for clean energy: Obama
BP backs President Obama, saying they have ‘mutual goals’ in Gulf of Mexico
The Australian
16 June 2010
BP said today it shares the goals of US President Barack Obama in shutting off the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico as soon as possible, after the President spoke to the nation in a live televised address.
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BP backs President Obama, saying they have ‘mutual goals’ in Gulf of Mexico
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BP backs President Obama, saying they have ‘mutual goals’ in Gulf of Mexico
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BP backs President Obama, saying they have ‘mutual goals’ in Gulf of Mexico
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BP backs President Obama, saying they have ‘mutual goals’ in Gulf of Mexico
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BP backs President Obama, saying they have ‘mutual goals’ in Gulf of Mexico
The Sunday Times
BP backs President Obama, saying they have ‘mutual goals’ in Gulf of Mexico
Turtle dumped near Mandurah
ABC Online
16 June 2010
Authorities are warning people not to remove animals from their natural habitats after a native West Australian turtle was found hundreds of kilometres away from its natural environment.
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Alarm over exotic turtle in South-West
No McDonalds in national parks – NPWS
The Australian
16 June 2010
CONSERVATIONISTS fear national parks will be exploited for commercial gain, but new laws allowing private operators to access wilderness areas across New South Wales, could also reduce the number of lost and underprepared bushwalkers.
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No McDonalds in national parks – NPWS
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No McDonalds in national parks – NPWS
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No McDonalds in national parks – NPWS
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No McDonalds in national parks – NPWS
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No McDonalds in national parks – NPWS
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No McDonalds in national parks – NPWS
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No McDonalds in national parks – NPWS
WA households chew through energy
ABC Online
16 June 2010
WA’s largest energy provider Synergy says households could save hundreds of dollars if they invested in energy efficient ways of living.
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Water wise but power hungry
Lobbying intensifies on Murray Darling Basin plan
ABC Rural Online
16 June 2010
Irrigators are stepping up their lobbying in preparation for the upcoming Federal election and release of the draft Murray Darling Basin plan.
90pc of water projects miss out on funding
ABC Online
16 June 2010
There are concerns 90 per cent of the projects designed to save water in the Great Artesian Basin may have missed out on funding.
Indonesian loggers find work as elephant keepers
ABC Radio Australia
16 June 2010
Indonesia is home to ten percent of the world’s remaining tropical rainforests and officials estimate each year 10 million hectares have been lost to illegal logging. Last month the Indonesian government announced a crackdown on illegal logging as part of a one billion dollar deal with Norway to stop deforestation. But this could leave thousands of people without an income. Now, a group in northern Sumatra have taken an innovative approach, retraining former illegal loggers to work as elephant keepers.
Timber industry and environmentalists at loggerheads
ABC 7.30 Report
16 June 2010
A political showdown is looming over the timber industry’s plans to burn timber waste in native forests for electricity under the Rudd Government’s alternative energy policy.
A sign of the cities to come
ABC Online
16 June 2010
Most Australians live in cities. Our last census (2006) found that two thirds of us were based in a ‘major city’. Apart from having implications about what this means for how we connect to nature, it also means that if we want an understanding of how sustainable we are as a nation, we need to look to our cities.
Call for changes to land clearing laws
ABC Online
16 June 2010
A total of $1.2 million in state funding will go to 56 community groups in South Australia for environmental projects.
Recharge while parked
ABC Online
16 June 2010
Perth drivers will soon be able to recharge their electric cars at the city’s newest multi-storey car park. |
