Australia: Bushfires strike with extreme heatwave blanketing most of continent
Image courtesy Australian Bureau of MeteorologyA heatwave covering 70 per cent of Australia that started on January 3 has sparked catastrophic bushfires. Tasmania has so far been the most devastated by...
View ArticleAustralia: Uncovering the real hoax: ANZ Bank greenwash while financing coal...
For a moment farmers, conservationists and climate campaigners in the north west of New South Wales thought one of the big four Australian banks - the ANZ Bank - was living up to it's sustainability...
View ArticleAustralian Greens Leader: 'Look at the damage to humanity being caused by...
Jonathon Moylan: Image Courtesy ABC 7.30 ReportJonathon Moylan's ANZ Bank hoax letter over the Maule's Creek Project open cut coalmine continues to produce reverberations. Australian Greens Leader...
View ArticleAustralia: Environment Minister approves fossil fuel projects increasing...
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View ArticleAustralia: Whitehaven Tarrawonga coal mine disrupted by protest
Frontline Action on Coal in the Leard State Forest claimed today that production at Whitehaven's Tarrawonga coal mine was disrupted due to a protester sitting on a tree platform with ropes attached to...
View ArticleAustralia: Melbourne heatwave a sizzling autumn end to an angry summer
Angry Summer - 123 records broken: Image by Australian Climate Commission, 1 March 2013Melbourne is setting another temperature record: the longest number of days of any month where the maximum...
View ArticleAustralia: Coal dust and climate change: Newcastle residents march against...
Stop T4 march, Newcastle, Australia: Photo by Lucy Alcorn / Coal Mine Action GroupUp to 1500 people attended a rally in Newcastle today in opposition to a fourth coal loading terminal being built,...
View ArticleAustralia: Coal ship boarded by Greenpeace activists off the Great Barrier Reef
Greenpeace activists board coal ship on Great Barrier ReefIn a climate change protest over Australian coal exports, Greenpeace activists boarded a bulk coal carrier while navigating through the Great...
View ArticleSeagrass projected to drastically decline with sea level rise
To most of us, what is hidden beneath the waves of our coastal environment remains invisible and is little thought about or cared about. Yet seagrass meadows, though hidden from our direct view,...
View ArticleAustralia: Soil Carbon sequestration limited in mitigating fossil fuel...
UNEP Global Soil Degradation map. Source: UNEPRebuilding soils through carbon sequestration and mitigating fossil fuel emissions sounds like a win-win solution all around. A reason the Liberal and...
View ArticleAustralia: Scientists advise Soil Carbon farming economically unviable
Latest Scientific advice from University of Melbourne researchers in Australia says that The potential for carbon sequestration in Australian agricultural soils is technically and economically limited....
View ArticleAustralia axes Biodiversity Fund in carbon pricing shakeup
Biodiversity fund axed in Australia: Photo by TakverElimination of the $1 billion Biodiversity Fund is a major impact of Australian Prime Minister Rudd's shake-up of Australia's carbon pricing policy...
View ArticleAustralia: New Government's first actions: trash climate change education,...
Prime Minister Tony Abbott on talk back radioOn September 7 Australia elected the Liberal National parties - the Coalition - to Federal Government, with Tony Abbott as our new Prime Minister. It is a...
View ArticleAustralia: Record warm winter and spring temperatures bring unusually early...
Australian temperature anomaly 14 days to 10 September 2013Just a few days after the Federal election NSW experienced a surprisingly early start to the bushfire season with fires on Sydney's outskirts...
View ArticleIPCC: Climate change is unequivocal with rapid and substantive emissions...
Australian scientists answer questions on IPCC AR5 report.The original of this article was published on the Climate Action Moreland website. A packed hall on a Thursday night (3 October) in Melbourne...
View ArticleAustralia sets new temperature records for September 2013 and hottest 12...
Australia: 2013 Hottest September on recordEven though the global land surface temperatures have appeared to plateau since 1998 - a global hiatus - other measurements show global warming has continued...
View ArticleAustralia: Unusually early Sydney Bushfires spark debate over climate -...
Bushfire smoke cloud over Sydney. Image: Maarten Danial / FlickrWidespread October bushfires in NSW are unusual, but have happened before, such as in 1991. This year there was an Early start to...
View ArticleAustralian Prime Minister in denial on climate change worsening bushfires
Australian Prime Minister Tony AbbottIn a radio interview with Neil Mitchell, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that the Head of the UNFCCC, Christiana Figueres, is "talking through her hat"...
View ArticleAustralia earns first rebuke by civil society at UN climate change talks
Australia had the dubious priveledge of earning the first Fossil of the Day award at the United Nations climate talks in Warsaw, Poland. Civil society organisations confer the awards each day of the...
View ArticleAustralia: Tens of Thousands rally for Climate Action
thousands rally for climate action in Australia: Photo by TakverMore than 60,000 people are estimated to have rallied or marched for climate action across Australia in a demonstration that a...
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