In a recent interview, the Opposition environment spokesperson Greg Hunt promised to reverse biodiversity decline in five years if the Coalition wins the forthcoming election. Is this goal achievable? Not the way we’re going. Our investment in enhancing biodiversity is not keeping pace with the factors… Authors Martine Maron PhD; Senior Lecturer in Environmental Management Continue Reading →
Dresden hit as 100,000 people across Germany fight floods River Elbe more than 6 metres above normal level as military and national disaster team work frantically to hold back floodwaters Share 9 inShare0 Email Associated Press in Dresden guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 June 2013 05.32 AEST People paddle in a boat between houses flooded by the Continue Reading →
Europe struggles with worst floods in decade AFPJune 6, 2013, 9:18 pm tweet0 Email Print AFP © Enlarge photo BITTERFELD, Germany (AFP) – Germany pushed on with frantic efforts to secure saturated river dykes with sandbags Thursday, bracing for a surge of the worst floods in over a decade that have claimed 12 lives and Continue Reading →
What’s new on ice sheet melt? 05 Jun 2013, 18:30 Freya Roberts Sourced under creative commons A major review of the latest research on ice sheets is published today in Nature, updating what scientists know about the world’s two biggest bodies of ice – Greenland and Antarctica. Since the last major climate science report, published Continue Reading →
Canberra’s Bonner is Australia’s top dwelling approvals and population growth hotspot: HIA By Larry Schlesinger Thursday, 06 June 2013 The Canberra suburb of Bonner was Australia’s top building and population hotspot in 2011/12, according to the latest HIA Population and Residential Building Hotspots report. The report gives an indication of which locations are likely to experience Continue Reading →
Australia has huge deposits of shale gas – but it won’t come cheap Australians could be sitting on more than 1,000tn cubic feet of untapped gas, study finds, but lack infrastructure to exploit it Share 15 inShare8 Email Oliver Milman in Melbourne guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 5 June 2013 18.40 AEST Shale gas extraction in the US. Continue Reading →