By Rob Taylor; Editing by Ed Davies2 June 2011 CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australia warned on Thursday that its World Heritage-listed outback Kakadu wetland, made famous in the “Crocodile Dundee” films, was at severe risk from climate change, as the government faced a growing battle to introduce a carbon tax. Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s one-seat majority […]
By Bill McKibben23 May 2011 Caution: It is vitally important not to make connections. When you see pictures of rubble like this week’s shots from Joplin, Mo., you should not wonder: Is this somehow related to the tornado outbreak three weeks ago in Tuscaloosa, Ala., or the enormous outbreak a couple of weeks before that […]
By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News21 April 2011 The Antarctic ozone hole is about one-third to blame for Australia’s recent series of droughts, scientists say. Writing in the journal Science, they conclude that the hole has shifted wind and rainfall patterns right across the Southern Hemisphere, even the tropics. Their climate models suggest the […]
By KELLY DOHERTY, Associated Press23 March 2011 Up to 45 rare species of wallaby, bandicoot and other Australian animals could become extinct within 20 years unless urgent action is taken to control introduced predators and other threats, scientists warned Wednesday. Dozens of mammals, birds, lizards and other vertebrates in the remote northwestern Kimberley region are […]
By Amy Lou Jenkins, Green Living Examiner23 March 2011 Francois Hugo of Seal Alert-SA (South Africa) says that one man, Hatem Yavuz, demands ransom for 90,000 Cape Fur Seals in Namibia. Yavuz has purchased the rights from the Namibian government to club these seals to death and has offered to sell away these rights for […]
By Stephen Messenger, Porto Alegre, Brazil20 March 2011 Little Penguins are the smallest species of their kind, but that undeniable cuteness has been a detriment to their very existence lately. On Granite Island in Southern Australia, thieves have been abducting the Little Penguins from their protected reserves under cover of night, presumably to make them […]
11 March 2011 (AAP) — Sydney could be swamped by sea waters once a year, instead of once every one hundred years, if nothing is done to address climate change. The claim is part of the findings of a new report from the Australian Government’s climate change advisor, Professor Ross Garnaut. He says Australia may […]
13 March 2011 (ABC) — A remote Aboriginal community in Western Australia’s north is almost entirely under water. Police have evacuated parts of Fitzroy Crossing and Warmun in the Kimberley as floodwaters in the region rise. People in Wyndham, Kununurra and Halls Creek, including outlying communities in the Ord River Catchment, are also being told […]
VIDEO: Rain to continue in Nth Qld AAP, The Courier-MailMarch 11, 2011 ALMOST every inch of Queensland has been disaster-declared following the state’s devastating summer season. Premier Anna Bligh announced Richmond Shire Council and Kowanyama Aboriginal Shire Council were the latest local governments to qualify under joint state and federal government natural disaster relief and […]
By JANE HAMMOND, The West Australian March 4, 2011 Up to 250,000ha of the State’s jarrah and marri forests is under attack from an army of hairy caterpillars. The creatures, known as gum-leaf skeletonizers, have stripped bare sections of the southern jarrah forest. Department of Environment and Conservation entomologist Janet Farr said the outbreak was […]
