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Acidified landscape around ocean vents foretells grim future for coral reefs

admin /21 February, 2010

Acidified landscape around ocean vents foretells grim future for coral reefs

Underwater vents allow scientists to assess the acidic effect of carbon dioxide on ocean life

Healthy coral reef and diver, Maldives

Ocean acidification will endanger the algae that hold together this reef in the Maldives. Photograph: Michele Westmorland/Getty Images

Huge vents covering the sea-floor – among the strangest and most spectacular sights in nature – pour carbon dioxide and other gases into the deep waters of the oceans.

Last week, as researchers reported that they had now discovered more than 50,000 underwater volcanic springs, they also revealed a new use for them – as laboratories for measuring the impact of ocean acidification on marine life.

Critics not sold on NSW transport plan.

admin /21 February, 2010

 

Why wouldn’t we be sceptical ? We’ve heard all this before.

We need proof that Labor will follow through with these commitments.
 
The Govt. could well be trying to pull a rabbit out the hat to get re-elected.
 
I don’t think it will work this time. Actions are required, not vague election
 
oriented promises.,
 
Neville Gillmore.

Gas pipeline through contaminated Baltic given go-ahead

admin /20 February, 2010

Gas pipeline through contaminated Baltic given go-ahead Ecologist 19th February, 2010 Environmental groups in Germany, Finland and Denmark claim gas pipeline will devastate the Baltic Sea’s already fragile marine ecosystem Three legal challenges are being brought against the construction of a major undersea gas pipeline between Russia and Germany. The €7.4 billion Nord Stream project, Continue Reading →

World’s top firms cause $2.2 Trillion of environmental damage, report estimates;.

admin /19 February, 2010

World’s top firms cause $2.2tn of environmental damage, report estimates

Report for the UN into the activities of the world’s 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment

• Andrew Simms: Putting a price tag on nature is meaningless
• Pavan Sukhdev: Paying for the value of nature could set scene for true green economy

COP15 : Black clouds hover over the central Jakarta

Black clouds over the central business district, Jakarta. The report into the activities of the world’s 3,000 biggest public companies has estimated the cost of use, loss and damage of the environment. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images

The cost of pollution and other damage to the natural environment caused by the world’s biggest companies would wipe out more than one-third of their profits if they were held financially accountable, a major unpublished study for the United Nations has found.

The report comes amid growing concern that no one is made to pay for most of the use, loss and damage of the environment, which is reaching crisis proportions in the form of pollution and the rapid loss of freshwater, fisheries and fertile soils.

Life’s a bitumen nightmare as cities get hotter than hell

admin /19 February, 2010

Life’s a bitumen nightmare as cities get hotter than hell

February 15, 2010

 

Thermal image of the City of Sydney, 6 February 2009

Thermal image of the City of Sydney, February 6, 2009. Photo: City of Sydney

We cooked on Friday. In between the deluges. Walking to the office across the breezeway at Darling Harbour – except there was no breeze – I overheard a young women say to her friend, ”It’s supposed to be 29 but it feels like 40.” She was right, the forecast was wrong. It hit 38 degrees in the Sydney CBD. Even that figure is misleading. On the streets it was worse – oppressive, debilitating.

One year ago, the City of Sydney council, keenly aware we are cooking ourselves in our cities, commissioned a thermal-image map of the CBD. The mapping flight took place in the early morning of February 6 last year. The maximum temperature that day was 29 degrees and the minimum 22 degrees. The thermal map, however, showed something else.

Victoria vulnerable to another Black Saturday: Cesar Melham

admin /19 February, 2010

Victoria vulnerable to another Black Saturday: Cesar Melham

 

VICTORIA was “tragically unprepared” for another Black Saturday and continued to face devastating loss of life, the bushfires royal commission has been told.

Cesar Melham, Victorian secretary of the Australian Workers Union, said the number of full-time firefighters had fallen from more than 1500 in the mid-1980s to a present low of 237, despite the Victorian government promising to boost numbers and the Brumby government was “more interested in cost cutting than in protecting lives and property”.

“The reality of the situation is that we do not have enough fire crews and field staff for clearing, burning and all the year-round preparation needed to save lives and property during each bushfire season,” he said.

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