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Cold Rush Greens worry as countries scurry to set up camp in Antarctica		05 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Cold Rush Greens worry as countries scurry to set up camp in Antarctica Several dozen countries have set up camps and research stations in Antarctica, giving greens short-term fears that development will damage fragile ecosystems and long-term fears that the continent will soon be pillaged for oil, gas, and minerals. A 1959 Antarctic Treaty declares Earth's driest, windiest, coldest contine ...
Topics: Antarctica, Australia, mining and drilling, news, United States (all these topics)

What the Bleep Do They Know!? NOAA scientists join NASA's with accounts of global-warming censorship		16 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
What the Bleep Do They Know!? NOAA scientists join NASA's with accounts of global-warming censorship Government censorship: It's what's for dinner. Some climate scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration whose views on global warming contradict Bush administration policy say they're being prevented from giving particular interviews or being closely ...
Topics: Australia, climate, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, news, politics (all these topics)

Doin' What Comes Dastardly Not-Kyoto climate pact meeting ends with much hot air		12 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Doin' What Comes Dastardly Not-Kyoto climate pact meeting ends with much hot air The U.S. and Australia today marked the end of the Asia-Pacific climate summit in Sydney by pledging $127 million to support technology projects that would lower greenhouse-gas emissions. Climate activists derided the commitment from the two big polluters as laughably small; the Kyoto Protocol, which both the U.S. and Australia have sp ...
Topics: Australia, climate, news, United States (all these topics)

Where There's Smokescreen There's Ire U.S. and Asia-Pacific countries gear up for not-Kyoto climate meeting		09 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Where There's Smokescreen There's Ire U.S. and Asia-Pacific countries gear up for not-Kyoto climate meeting The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific climate partnership will kick off this Wednesday in Australia. The six participating nations -- Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. -- will emphasize the transfer of clean technologies to developing countries, in ...
Topics: Australia, China, climate, India, Japan, news, South Korea, United States (all these topics)

Will Waters Never Cease? Aussie firms extract both clean energy and drinking water from ocean		09 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Will Waters Never Cease? Aussie firms extract both clean energy and drinking water from ocean Among our many environmental problems, two of the most vexing are dwindling freshwater supplies and a dearth of clean energy. Now two Australian firms think they've hit on a way to tackle both at once: a desalination plant that could convert saltwater to freshwater, using only the power supplied by the ocean's waves, and ...
Topics: Australia, news, oceans, water pollution (all these topics)

Damalot Jacques Leslie's Deep Water sheds light on dam dramas	Michelle Nijhuis	12 Oct 2005	Arts and Minds
What does hell look like to an environmentalist? In the classic Encounters With the Archdruid, writer John McPhee imagines this particular inferno. The outer ring, he writes, is a moat filled with DDT. Inside lies another moat brimming with burning gasoline, and still deeper are masses of bulldozers and chainsaws. In the middle -- at "the absolute epicenter of hell on earth" -- stands a dam. & ...
Topics: Africa, Australia, dams, energy, India (all these topics)

Pact or Fiction? New Asia-Pacific climate pact is long on PR, short on substance	Amanda Griscom Little	04 Aug 2005	Muckraker
Staunch U.S. allies, enviro activists, and just about everyone else was caught flat-footed last week when the U.S., Australia, and four Asian countries unveiled a new pact intended to help curb greenhouse-gas emissions. In the days since, some details about the surprise alliance have trickled out, but its mission and intended impact remain murky. Known as the Asia-Pacific Par ...
Topics: Asia, Australia, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, international treaties, Muckraker, politics, United States (all these topics)

A Short Review of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson's books offer environmental ethics with a light touch	Sarah van Schagen	04 Mar 2005	Arts and Minds
Somewhere along the 2,200-mile trail from Georgia to Maine, through the Appalachian and Smoky Mountain chains, I fell in love with Bill Bryson. A walk in the woods. A Walk in the Woods, the venerable travel writer's best-selling 1998 account of hiking a portion of the Appalachian Trail, conjured memories of adventures I'd had as a kid in the forests where I grew ...
Topics: Appalachia, Australia, United States (all these topics)

Poop is not funny	Katharine Wroth	24 Feb 2005	Gristmill
OK, maybe a little. Hot off the, er, presses: a company in Australia is seeking donations of kangaroo dung to make recycled paper. Inspired by African and Asian operations that make sheets from elephant excrement, Joanna Gair hopes to make 'Roo Poo Paper' a household name. The 'pooey' product has proven useful as a conservation fundraiser in some places and is, of course, a hit with the kids. 'It's taken my breath away just how popular this [idea] is,' Gair says. Whi ...
Topics: air pollution, Australia, Nebraska, waste (all these topics)

Uprisings down under	Katharine Wroth	17 Feb 2005	Gristmill
Who says there are no good protests anymore? Australian environmentalists used ice sculptures yesterday to protest their country's refusal to jump on the Kyoto wagon. Maybe frozen icons are just what the U.S. needs! (Insert hackneyed Al Gore joke here.)
Topics: art, Australia, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Sweet 'n' Low-Down Sugar is causing environmental catastrophes		09 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Sweet 'n' Low-Down Sugar is causing environmental catastrophes A high-sugar diet is slowly fattening and sickening American people, but we're getting off easy. Turns out the sweet stuff is outright killing endangered Florida panthers, not to mention the ecosystem in which they live. Almost 700,000 acres of the Florida Everglades have been drained to create the Everglades Agricultural Area, about 80 per ...
Topics: Australia, Florida, food and agriculture, wildlife (all these topics)

Hugh and Cry Questions raised about influential conservation software		22 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Hugh and Cry Questions raised about influential conservation software In recent years, many large conservation plans -- including the biggie that led Australia to ban fishing on a third of the Great Barrier Reef -- were produced using a computer program called Marxan. Now, Australian professor Hugh P. Possingham, who helped develop the program in 1998, is raising questions about it. In a recent study, Possingham found that unl ...
Topics: Australia, land stewardship (all these topics)

Sounds Familiar ... Conservative Australian leader gets green during election year		17 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Sounds Familiar ... Conservative Australian leader gets green during election year Australian Prime Minister John Howard has long been viewed as an implacable foe of environmentalists, scoffing at the Kyoto Protocol, supporting logging in old-growth forests, and declaiming his unwillingness to lose a single job or dollar of economic growth in the name of environmental protection. However, it's an election year in Australia, ...
Topics: Australia, elections, politics (all these topics)

Yes, We Have Mo' Bananas Australians Kick Some Renewable-Energy Butt		30 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Yes, We Have Mo' Bananas Australians Kick Some Renewable-Energy Butt Those Australians are busy bees these days! One team of Aussie researchers has announced that within seven years it will be able to produce hydrogen fuel from sunlight and water, in a process that has no moving parts and produces no pollutants. "This is potentially huge, with a market the size of all the existing markets for coal, ...
Topics: Australia, food and agriculture, renewable energy (all these topics)

Turning Over an Old Reef Great Barrier Reef Is Doomed, Says Report		23 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Turning Over an Old Reef Great Barrier Reef Is Doomed, Says Report Australia's Great Barrier Reef -- the world's largest chain of living coral and one of the seven wonders of the natural world -- will be almost completely destroyed by rising sea temperatures by 2050, predicts a new report released by Queensland University's Center for Marine Studies. "Coral c ...
Topics: air pollution, Australia, climate, international government agencies, marine life, oceans (all these topics)

Got to Admit It's Getting Bettors Bettors Will Get a Chance to Help Save Albatrosses		12 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Got to Admit It's Getting Bettors Bettors Will Get a Chance to Help Save Albatrosses A well-known bookie is teaming up with enviros in a creative effort to help save albatrosses, sea birds that are increasingly threatened by a fishing technique called longlining, which involves the use of tens of thousands of baited hooks dragged behind trawlers for 60 miles or more. Conservationists ...
Topics: Africa, Australia, environmental restoration, United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics)

Snoop Doggy Doggs Robotic Dogs Sniff Out Environmental Toxins		10 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Snoop Doggy Doggs Robotic Dogs Sniff Out Environmental Toxins Engineers at Yale have developed robotic dogs that can sniff out environmental toxins at contaminated sites. The mechanical critters were originally designed and marketed as toys by Sony and other companies, but an intrepid crew at Yale modified the robo-puppies with sensors that de ...
Topics: Australia, Belarus, East Coast, environmental restoration, Idaho, nuclear power, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

20,000 Toxins Under the Sea Ocean Mammals Getting Pummeled by Pollution		27 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
20,000 Toxins Under the Sea Ocean Mammals Getting Pummeled by Pollution New research indicates that human-made toxins have infiltrated deep and remote parts of the ocean. The Ocean Alliance, a Massachusetts-based research organization, has found troubling levels of DDT, PCBs, and other contaminants in the blubber of sperm whales. Scienti ...
Topics: Australia, marine life, oceans, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, water bodies and marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

Hail to the Reef Australia to Protect One-Third of Great Barrier Reef		05 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Hail to the Reef Australia to Protect One-Third of Great Barrier Reef In a major boon to Down Under ecology, fully one-third of the Great Barrier Reef will receive protection, the Australian government announced this week. The move will increase the protected areas of the reef by 40,000 square miles, thereby establishing the lar ...
Topics: Australia, climate, energy, international government agencies, marine life, oceans, outdoor recreation, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Good of Small Things Aussies See Big Business in Small Life Forms		30 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
The Good of Small Things Aussies See Big Business in Small Life Forms Here's an investment tip from Down Under: bacteria. That's right -- Australian scientists are creating a range of bacteria-based products to help clean up the environment, and, while they're at it, reap some of the riches of a $5 billion global market in environmental biotechnology. A coalition of Australian universities, research institutes, and i ...
Topics: Australia, business, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Going Dutch Dutch Car Crosses Finish Line First in Solar Stakes		23 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Going Dutch Dutch Car Crosses Finish Line First in Solar Stakes A Dutch-designed solar vehicle dubbed the Nuna II crossed a finish line in Australia yesterday to win the 2003 World Solar Challenge. The race, which covers 1,870 miles from Darwin in the north of Australia to Adelaide in the far south, is seen as a proving ground for new solar technologies. Thanks to the relentless sunlight in the Australian outback, ...
Topics: Australia, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Bass Ackwards International Team Chases Illegal Fishing Vessel Across High Seas		20 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Bass Ackwards International Team Chases Illegal Fishing Vessel Across High Seas It's kind of like "Pirates of the Caribbean," only it's set in the Indian Ocean. Australian and South African customs ships are hunting down the Viarsa, an Uruguayan fishing vessel suspected of poaching millions of pounds of endangered Patagonian toothfish. The high drama on the high seas has covered more than 1,000 miles from A ...
Topics: Australia, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Don't Fear the Reefer		02 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Don't Fear the Reefer The Australian government today announced plans to put nearly one-third of the Great Barrier Reef off limits to fishing and trawling. "This will provide the largest network of protected marine areas in the world," said Minister for the Environment David Kemp. Environmental advocates praised the move but pointed out that the government needs to do more, including protect a ...
Topics: Australia, marine life, mining and drilling, oceans (all these topics)

Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut ...		23 May 2003	Daily Grist
Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut ... Macadamia-nut shells will soon be the source of electricity for more than 1,200 Australian homes. Construction began this week on a biomass cogeneration plant in the northern Australian state of Queensland that will produce renewable energy by burning more than 5,000 tons of shells generated by the nation's native macadamia nut industry. "This project ... could be re ...
Topics: Australia, energy, green living, renewable energy (all these topics)

Down Under Water		12 May 2003	Daily Grist
Down Under Water The folks down under will have a lot to be down about if climate change proceeds as projected. Rising temperatures could trigger a 164 percent increase in heat-related deaths in Australia by 2050 and an increase of up to 240 percent in injuries and deaths caused by flooding by 2020, according to a study commissioned by the Australian government. Tropical diseases like malaria and dengue could also ...
Topics: Australia, health, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

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