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Some Systems Go Big Oil gets OK from Australian state for multi-billion-dollar LNG project		07 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 9:18 AM on 07 Sep 2007 A major energy venture on Western Australia's Barrow Island is one step closer to reality after getting a green light from state environmental officials. Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Royal Dutch Shell propose the development of a massive liquefied natural gas field expected to generate 10 million metric tons per year (which, in non-metric terms, is "a hell of a lot") ...
Topics: Australia, Big Oil, energy, natural gas, news (all these topics)

Australia faces the 'permanent dry,' as do we Drought predicted to spread across Australia and the United States	Joseph Romm	06 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The story of Australia's worst dry spell in a thousand years continues to astound. Last year we learned, 'One farmer takes his life every four days.' This year over half of Australia's agricultural land is in a declared drought. How bad is it? One Australian newspaper is reporting: Drought will become a redundant term as Australia plans for a permanently drier future, according to the nation's urban water industries chief ... 'The urban water industry ha ...
Topics: Australia, climate, climate science, severe weather, United States (all these topics)

Frock hunter Steve Irwin's daughter launches Bindi Wear eco-clothing line	Sarah van Schagen	05 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Bindi Irwin, the 9-year-old daughter of the late Croc Hunter (R.I.P., mate), has launched her own children's clothing line:The T-shirts, jumpers, swimwear, sleepwear, hats, bags and shoes carry environmental messages. The tags are made from recycled cardboard, the soles on the shoes are made with recycled rubber and 100 per cent of the profits she earns from the clothes will be used to fund Australia Zoo's conservation programs.The clothes are expected in Aussie ...
Topics: Australia, consumerism, fashion, green living, recycling, shopping (all these topics)

Geez, All We Got Was Karl Rove's Resignation Governments ruffled by climate kerfuffles in England, Australia		13 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Geez, All We Got Was Karl Rove's Resignation Governments ruffled by climate kerfuffles in England, Australia A couple of government climate kerfuffles have broken out: In Britain, a leaked briefing paper says the country won't meet a European Union target of 20 percent renewable energy by 2020, and suggests lobbying other nations for a more flexib ...
Topics: Australia, climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, England, news, renewable energy (all these topics)

'Roo shoe diaries Court upholds ban on kangaroo-hide sneaks	Sarah van Schagen	26 Jul 2007	Gristmill
A California Supreme Court decision Monday upheld a 36-year-old ban on the import and sale of products made from various wildlife species -- specifically soccer, rugby, and baseball shoes made by defendant Adidas.The decision was hailed by animal rights groups for setting a precedent allowing states to protect species that the federal government no longer deems in peril.Meanwhile, Aussies (who apparently often serve 'roo on the barbie) are rather confused by the ru ...
Topics: animal welfare, Australia, California, wildlife (all these topics)

Hope There's a High Ceiling for the Kangaroos Australia to build 1,740-mile corridor for wildlife affected by climate change		09 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Hope There's a High Ceiling for the Kangaroos Australia to build 1,740-mile corridor for wildlife affected by climate change State and federal leaders in Australia have agreed to create a 1,740-mile wildlife corridor spanning the east coast of the continent -- in part to allow plants and animals to flee the effects of global warming. "The effects of climate change will likely be less sev ...
Topics: Australia, climate, climate change adaptation, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Quench Warners Desalination won't solve world's water woes, report says		20 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Quench Warners Desalination won't solve world's water woes, report says Another high-tech environmental solution may be going out the window: a new report from the World Wildlife Fund says desalinating water could hurt more than it helps. Estimating that there are more than 10,000 desalination plants around the world, WWF says the energy-intensive practice of filtering salt out of seawater can harm marine life and g ...
Topics: Australia, climate, news, water crisis (all these topics)

Howard emulates his hero Australia tries to distract from Kyoto	David Roberts	07 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Looks like somebody's been taking lessons from Bush. Get this:'The Kyoto model -- top-down, prescriptive, legalistic and Euro-centric -- simply won't fly in a rising Asia-Pacific region,' Howard told an Asia Society Australasia dinner.Gag.
Topics: Australia, climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, politics (all these topics)

A really vicious cycle Are Americans smart enough to learn from Australia's crisis?	JMG	26 May 2007	Gristmill
What if there was a country that was like America in many ways, such as the obstinate refusal of its government to acknowledge that pursuing economic growth at the expense of the environment is simply a way to commit suicide faster, a fondness for beer, and an enormous capacity to live the high energy lifestyle as if there was no tomorrow? Could Americans learn anything from it?Bart A's always-excellent Energy Bulletin brings this chilling story about the very non-chill Austral ...
Topics: Australia, climate, climate change impacts, United States (all these topics)

Citizen Cane On cane toads	Umbra Fisk	21 May 2007	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I'm currently studying in Australia. I was recently in Queensland, where as you probably know, cane toads are a huge problem. There are over 200 million of the toxic toads, and this invasive species has been killing off native wildlife and just in general causing lots of problems. In fact, they have huge hunts where they gas thousands of the toads. Recently, when some friends and I saw the toads (hundreds of them come out at night, ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, Australia, biodiversity (all these topics)

Victory in the South Pacific Limits set on high seas bottom trawling	Andrew Sharpless	09 May 2007	Gristmill
More than 20 nations recently met in Chile to set up a regulatory body to watch over a huge swath of ocean. The meeting, which was targeted by the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts, and included staff from Oceana's South American office, also netted (no pun intended) a landmark agreement that reels in high seas bottom trawling fleets. New regulations set to take effect next September will severely limit the destructive fishing ...
Topics: Antarctica, Australia, fishing, oceans (all these topics)

Australia's great drought	Jason D Scorse	29 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The Economist has a great article on Australia's crippling drought. If this is what global warming is likely to bring Australia, we should pay attention and hopefully learn something about how best to cope.
Topics: Australia, climate, climate change impacts, desertification, water conflicts (all these topics)

Australia's 'food bowl' running dry And their PM is still in denial	Joseph Romm	27 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Australian Prime Minister John Howard is in a sticky, yet dry, situation. Even though a drought has caused Australia's agricultural production to fall 25 percent in the last year, Howard may have to ban irrigation so that urban centers can have drinking water. The targeted river basin, the Murray-Darling, is known as Australia's 'food bowl' because it houses 72 percent of Australia's farm and pasture land. If insufficient rain continues through the next few weeks, ...
Topics: Australia, climate, climate change impacts, desertification (all these topics)

Marian Devil Just Doesn't Have the Same Ring Legendary Tasmanian devil faces relocation or extinction		12 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Marian Devil Just Doesn't Have the Same Ring Legendary Tasmanian devil faces relocation or extinction Australia is working to save the Tasmanian devil from extinction. Plagued by a contagious cancer, the carnivorous marsupial is dying out on its eponymous island. Scientists have sent nearly 50 of the beasts to zoos and want to move 30 more to nearby Maria Island, a former prison site that's now a wildlife sanctuary. Whi ...
Topics: Australia, endangered species, news (all these topics)

I don't think they're ready for this jellyfish Sea-dweller stops McConaughey in his tracks	Yolanda Crous	04 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The recent discovery of Irukundi jellyfish off the coast of Fraser Island, Australia, has stopped production of Fool's Gold, a sure-to-be-Oscar-contender starring Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson. The teensy-tiny toxic creatures ('no larger than a thumbnail') are usually found only in northern Queensland, but -- you guessed it -- warming temperatures seem to be pushing the deadly (and we mean deadly) critters south. The upside: Now that global warming has depri ...
Topics: Australia, celebrity, green living (all these topics)

Outback Darkhouse Sydney, Australia, to put the lights out for climate change		27 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Outback Darkhouse Sydney, Australia, to put the lights out for climate change Last month, Australian officials announced that traditional incandescent light bulbs would be phased out by 2010 and replaced by compact fluorescents and other efficient lighting technologies. But Sydney is getting a jump on the energy-conservation action: this Saturday, bulbs across the city will be going dark for one hour. More than ...
Topics: Australia, energy, energy efficiency, news (all these topics)

They've Had Their Filament Australia to fully phase out incandescent bulbs by 2010		20 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
They've Had Their Filament Australia to fully phase out incandescent bulbs by 2010 In a world first, Australia will officially make the switch away from incandescent bulbs. Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull said today that the country would phase out inefficient lighting over the next three years, reducing greenhouse-gas emissions hundreds of thousands of tons a year and cutting household lighting costs up to 66 percent. ...
Topics: Australia, green living, news (all these topics)

They Put the Heat in Heath Australian leaders suggest water recycling to address ongoing drought		30 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
They Put the Heat in Heath Australian leaders suggest water recycling to address ongoing drought As evidenced by Heath Ledger, Australians are hot -- so hot, in fact, that they've used up much of their water. As the state of Queensland suffers an ongoing drought, Premier Peter Beattie has warned that residents may soon be drinking recycled sewage water. Premiers of other Aussie states pooh-pooh effluent recycling, but Envi ...
Topics: Australia, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Doing a Heckuva Job An interview with Australian politician and rabble-rouser Bob Brown	Gregory Dicum	04 Jan 2007	Main Dish
Bob Brown goes to great heights to protect his homeland. Photo: Rainforest Action Network Bob Brown looks a caricature of an Australian senator: a bit disheveled in a rumpled gray suit, unfashionable glasses, and a goofy grin. But a little rumple goes a long way. In a career that has spanned three decades, Brown has brought new awareness of environmental and human rights into the ...
Topics: Australia, interview, politics, rainforests (all these topics)

Wallaby Darned Australia says it's warming faster than much of the rest of the globe		04 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Wallaby Darned Australia says it's warming faster than much of the rest of the globe They lost the Croc Hunter, were besieged by wildfires, got slammed by a cyclone, and now this: research from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology indicates that Down Under is warming faster than the global average. Our condolences, mates. While global temps have risen by around 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit in the last century, the temperature in Austral ...
Topics: Australia, climate, news (all these topics)

For Every Action, There's a Reactor Russian spy death linked to nuclear black market, and other glowings-on		27 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
For Every Action, There's a Reactor Russian spy death linked to nuclear black market, and other glowings-on Oh, nuclear -- will it ever cease to amaze? As authorities probe the radiation-poisoning death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, they've suggested a link to Russia's robust radioactive-materials black market. The market's deals, said an International Atomic Ener ...
Topics: Australia, Harry Reid, Nevada, news, nuclear power, Russia, US EPA, waste (all these topics)

Black balloons A cool new ad campaign from Victoria, Australia	David Roberts	20 Nov 2006	Gristmill
This article, in which Al Gore lays out his basic position on nukes, contains nothing much new. He's said it all before in, among other places, our interview. Thanks to Gristmill reader LA, however, for drawing my attention to this intriguing final bit: Mr Gore ... yesterday met with [Victoria, Australia] Premier Steve Bracks and his deputy John Thwaites. He described Victoria as forward thinking on climate change and said he would take a number of local initiati ...
Topics: advertising, Al Gore, Australia, climate, video (all these topics)

Heart of a Howard Australia plagued by historic drought, not-so-responsive leadership		08 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Heart of a Howard Australia plagued by historic drought, not-so-responsive leadership Wondering how Australia's doing? It's dry as a dead dingo, thanks for asking. The "Sunburnt Country" is undergoing a severe drought -- the worst in 1,000 years, according to one expert. The lack of precipitation could cut agricultural output by 20 percent, and it's only going to get worse: a government organization has ...
Topics: Australia, climate, desertification, news (all these topics)

Hauntingly Familiar Groundbreaking climate report inspires predictable political responses		31 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Hauntingly Familiar Groundbreaking climate report inspires predictable political responses World reaction to yesterday's U.K. report linking climate change with possible economic ruin has been swift -- and painfully predictable. While British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his likely successor Gordon Brown hailed the findings, Kyoto-resisters Australia and the U.S. offered more lukewarm responses. A ...
Topics: Australia, climate, news, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Outstripped Demand for organics outpacing local supply		10 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Outstripped Demand for organics outpacing local supply With demand for organic food soaring in the U.S. and U.K., manufacturers of organic products are struggling to find adequate supplies of organic ingredients and are increasingly looking and buying abroad. While exporters like Australia welcome the trend, it creates a dilemma for many organic enthusiasts, who also tend to support lo ...
Topics: Australia, food and agriculture, news, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

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