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Sheep Trick		09 May 2003	Daily Grist
Sheep Trick Angering environmentalists, Aboriginals, and regional government officials alike, the Australian government has announced that it will build a controversial nuclear waste dump at a sheep station in South Australia. Located near the desert town of Woomera, the dump will house low-level radioactive waste from medical, university, industrial, and research facilities around the cou ...
Topics: Australia, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

John Connor, It Is Time		23 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
John Connor, It Is Time Australia is famous for its unusual animals (think koalas and kangaroos), but according to a new government report, thousands of the nation's mammal, reptile, and bird species could go extinct if the pace of land-clearing continues unabated. The report, known as the "Biodiversity Audit" and leaked to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation yesterday, found that 2,891 separate ecosystems in Australia are ...
Topics: Australia, wildlife (all these topics)

Down Underdogs		16 Apr 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Australia, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

A Great Grandma An Aboriginal elder battles construction of a radioactive-waste dump in Australia	Michelle Nijhuis	16 Apr 2003	Main Dish
In the 1950s and '60s, the British military conducted a dozen full-scale nuclear tests in the desert of southern Australia. To the military, the region was a wasteland, the best possible place for such a project; to the Aboriginal people who had lived in the desert for millennia, the land was their home. Eileen Kampakuta Brown and Eileen Wani Wingfield. Photo: Robert ...
Topics: Australia, interview, nuclear power, population (all these topics)

A Towering Achievement		06 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
A Towering Achievement An Australian power company is planning to build the world's tallest structure, in the name of a global campaign to encourage renewable energy use. Energy company Environmission plans to construct a solar tower in the middle of the Australian outback that would soar 3,300 feet into the air, or more than twice as high as the world's tallest building, Toronto's Canadian National Tower. The str ...
Topics: Australia, green living, renewable energy (all these topics)

Send in the Marine Reserves		11 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Send in the Marine Reserves Australia has unveiled plans to create the world's largest marine reserve in 16 million acres of the Indian Ocean, 2,500 miles off the nation's southwest coast. The Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve will be twice the size of Switzerland and will protect one of the world's most pristine marine environments from exploitation, including fishing and oil and mineral extraction. T ...
Topics: Australia, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Down Underachievers?		19 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Down Underachievers? The environmental situation is not looking up in the land down under, according to a new report commissioned by a consortium of conservation organizations. Noting such environmental problems as loss of species and their habitats, degradation of inland waters, and high pollution levels from the burning of fossil fuels, the report calls Australia "a continent in rever ...
Topics: Australia, politics, pollution and waste, population, wildlife (all these topics)

No Island Is an Island		16 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
No Island Is an Island Climate change was the leading concern at the annual Pacific Island Forum this week, where leaders of small island nations chastised the United States for abandoning the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. The islands have an unusually vested interest in the protocol because they face a high risk of being swallowed up by seas swollen from melting ice caps a ...
Topics: air pollution, Australia, climate, Pacific Islands, politics, United States (all these topics)

Great Burial Reef		26 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Great Burial Reef It's not a great time to be the Great Barrier Reef. When sea temperatures around the famed Australian landmark hit record highs early this year, 60 percent of the coral on the reef suffered from heat-related bleaching, according to marine scientists. Warm water temperatures caused the algae that live on the reef to leave, disrupting the symbiotic relationship between coral and algae and sometimes ...
Topics: Australia, climate, marine life, oceans (all these topics)

Toxics: Australian for Fertilizer		09 May 2002	Daily Grist
Toxics: Australian for Fertilizer Businesses across Australia are legally disposing of their industrial waste by selling it as fertilizers for farms and home gardens, according to an investigative report by the Sydney Morning Herald. The fertilizers often contain such toxic metals as arsenic, mercury, chromium, and lead. In western Australia, radioactive mat ...
Topics: Australia, food and agriculture, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics (all these topics)

P-ouch!		08 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
P-ouch! Australia Environment Minister David Kemp has angered environmentalists by agreeing to allow 6.9 million kangaroos and wallabies to be killed for commercial purposes this year. The figure represents a 1.5 million increase over past culls of Australia's national symbol. State governments had requested an even larger increase, saying the kangaroo population was on the rise. But environmentalists criticized t ...
Topics: Australia, food and agriculture, wildlife (all these topics)

To Boldly Clean Where No One Has Cleaned Before		12 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
To Boldly Clean Where No One Has Cleaned Before Urging other countries to follow its lead, Australia began a massive cleanup of its Antarctic research base today. As many as 330,000 tons of waste, the detritus of decades of research and exploration, is strewn over the otherwise pristine environment of Antarctica. The waste includes chemicals, batteries, oils, and building materials. Australia contracted a French ...
Topics: Antarctica, Australia, pollution and waste (all these topics)

A Rash Attack		02 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
A Rash Attack A flight attendant for United Airlines has sued the airline for exposing flight crews to pesticides on planes serving Australia and New Zealand. The attendant, Susan Matthews, says she developed a full-body rash after contact with the pesticides. The spraying -- which has been banned in the U.S. -- occurs about once every eight weeks to keep nonnative insects from hitching rides and potentially wreakin ...
Topics: Australia, health, New Zealand, toxics (all these topics)

Melbourne Place		12 Sep 2000	Daily Grist
Melbourne Place Thousands of enviros and other anti-globalization activists took to the streets of Melbourne, Australia, yesterday, with the aim of shutting down, Seattle-style, a three-day World Economic Forum meeting of high-powered corporate leaders and policymakers, primarily from the Asia-Pacific region. "We have no vote on who these major world leaders are," said Michael Gann, a protestor from New S ...
Topics: Australia, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

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