By RACHEL BROWNE AND KYM AGIUSMarch 7, 2010 RESIDENTS in two states were battling against severe weather yesterday that brought record floodwaters, torrential rain, 100km/h winds and hailstones as big as golf balls. Emergency services in the southwest Queensland town of St George were last night preparing for a flood peak expected to inundate […]
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March 3, 2010 (AAP) A worst-case scenario on Perth’s water resources says supplies could dip by nearly 50 per cent in the next 20 years. A CSIRO report has projected a marked decrease in river flows and water yields in WA’s South-West by 2030. It said under the best case scenario surface water yields would […]
www.mongabay.comMarch 02, 2010 Western Australia endured its hottest summer on record, according to the state weather bureau. At 29.6°C, temperatures were 0.2°C warmer than the previous record, set in 1997-1998. Western Australia has been keeping state-wide temperature data since 1950. Perth, the state’s capital, had its driest summer since record-keeping began in 1897. Only 0.2 […]
February 23, 2010 Sweaty. Sticky. Uneasy. These are all words that could easily be applied to the temperatures endured by Sydneysiders overnight, before a morning change injected some cool relief. The city stayed above 26 degrees for most of the night, even increasing to 29 degrees just before 9am, Sam Terry Meteorologist with The […]
By PETER KERFebruary 22, 2010 Close to 300 kilometres of the Murray River has been declared off limits to humans and animals, as a toxic algal bloom worsened yesterday. As the river between Wodonga and Echuca was elevated to ”red alert” for algal bloom, there were concerns the risks to human health were not being […]
By Steve Connor Saturday, 20 February 2010 The number of great white sharks may have fallen below the number of tigers, one of the world’s most endangered terrestrial species that benefits from a huge effort to save it from extinction. Like tigers, great whites are a top predator and, like tigers, they have suffered […]
Just 2 °C more and reefs stop producing a cloud-seeding gas, which could leave corals hotter still and rainforests drier Rising ocean temperatures might leave coral reefs in seriously hot water – without clouds for protection. Five years ago Graham Jones and his team at Southern Cross University in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia, demonstrated […]
February 17, 2010 PEOPLE are being warned to avoid contact with the Murray River for the second time in less than a year, as a toxic algal bloom takes hold in the river’s upper reaches. A ”red alert” has been issued for more than 150 kilometres between Hume Dam and Cobram, while the stretch from […]
By BEN CUBBYFebruary 18, 2010 EIGHT swamps inside a conservation area which provide habitat for endangered native animals are likely to be lost if BHP Billiton is allowed to go ahead with plans to develop giant coalmines on Sydney’s south-western outskirts. The company has conceded that the swamps – natural filters that keep the Georges […]
