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1. South Australia’s marine disaster: A glimpse of the future?

   coastal waters has affected more than 450 marine species, devastating many of their populations. ... local marine environment. Further nutrients have since arrived with upwellings of deep water from off ... with inshore waters as much as 3°C warmer than usual. Under often cloudless skies, algal species that ...

2. Why the Whyalla steelworks must be publicly owned

   a high-temperature reaction using hydrogen, obtained by electrolysis of water using the region’s abundant, ... SA government-owned utility SA Water was owed $15 million. In all, Gupta’s SA operations had by this ...

3. Activists organise against Coalition’s lunatic nuclear plans

   green steel and water desalination. But the energy has to be cheap — and nuclear power is not in the ...

4. Water activists grill election hopefuls

   Often, the water surface in the lakes and lower reaches of the river is more than half a metre below sea ... brackish, the waters of the Coorong once supported rich ecosystems, including an abundance of bird life. Due ... from neighbouring Lake Alexandrina. Studies reveal that for thousands of years the lake waters were ...

5. Understanding Mikhail Gorbachev and his legacy

   virtually empty. I remember going down there and noting what was on sale. There was mineral water, there was ...

6. Kevin Buzzacott: ‘Time for Santos to get off its bike’

   springs. Since the 1980s, the Australian mining industry has further drained the basin’s water resources. ... of water per day from the basin for use in ore processing. And, while BHP is sucking water out of the ... basin in South Australia, Buzzacott noted, other firms are poisoning the water where it flows in — the ...

7. Activists mount court challenge to Olympic Dam mine

   fishers. The desalination plant is to provide water to the expanded Olympic Dam mine. At present, the mine ... shallow, confined gulf waters. Federal and state permission for its plans at Olympic Dam seem assured, so ... environment in respect to water and the export of uranium. The well-known perils of nuclear energy aside, the ...

8. Oil firm dumps plans to drill the Bight, but fight not over

   only in Australian waters, but anywhere in the world. Spilling up over the edge of the continental ... shelf, upwellings of nutrient-rich water spur plankton growth on a scale comparable to the legendary ...

9. Liberals squirm as South Australia's parliament declares climate emergency

   assistance to Murray River irrigators. SA depends heavily on the Murray for its water supplies. Irrigation ... farmers in the state suffered grievously during the turn-of-the-century “Big Dry”, when water allocations ...

10. Communities demand action on dying Murray

    Driza-Bone jackets. Mentions of Labor Party Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, federal water minister Penny Wong and ... nature, that are to blame. Excessive water diversions — not drought or climate change — have stopped the ... river flowing from its mouth for the previous five years. There is still plenty of water in the system, ...

11. BHP Billiton plans desalination 'Dead Sea'

    work is starting on the desalination plant that is to supply fresh water for BHP Billiton's ... would provide water to local users in the Upper Spencer Gulf and Eyre Peninsula regions as well as to ... Australian Water Fund. These pledges have created consternation among observers, since projections in 2006 ...

12. Global warming and Australia's 'Big Dry'

    are concluding it's best to sell the next-to-meaningless water rights, accept a government exit ... air can hold more water vapour. As global temperatures have risen, one result is that the tropical ... the Indian Ocean Dipole are represented by areas of warm and cool water on opposite sides of the ...

13. Coal seam gas — dirtier than coal, worse than shale

    surface waters, while taking rich farmland out of food production. But at least, its promoters argue, coal ... pumping in a high-pressure mix of water, sand and various (often toxic) chemicals. This process opens ... times by way of geological faults that allow it to vent to the atmosphere or end up in water supplies. ...

14. Greenhouse emissions prepare ocean disaster

    also become increasingly acidic, as carbon dioxide from the atmosphere reacts with water. This could ... whole marine ecosystems. In many places throughout the tropical world, warm water coral reefs have been ... researchers at Kiel University in Germany describes how low-oxygen layers of water in the tropical Atlantic to ...

15. South Australia: Liberals give go-ahead for high-risk coal

    describes as “a witch’s brew of water mixed with benzene, phenols, [and] polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons”. ...

16. Climate change, irrigation threaten Murray-Darling disaster

    levels. But the plan for management of the basin’s water resources drawn up by the Murray-Darling Basin ... during the wet La Nina years of 2010 and 2011 have allowed irrigators to receive their full water ... deluges that produce floods of staggering size. These will fill water storages, but also destroy crops and ...

17. Fishers and scientists slam Roxby desalination plans

    The operation will need large amounts of water — eventually, as much as 200 megalitres a day. BHP ... little wave action. While local tidal flows can be fast, it is largely the same water that moves back and ... forth; mixing with waters further down the gulf is limited. Rapid evaporation from the surface means that ...

18. Court rules against Olympic Dam mine challenge

    radioactive ore tailings at Olympic Dam, and also at the prospect of pumping huge amounts of water from the ... kilometres. In its present underground phase, the Olympic Dam mine uses water piped from bores in the Great ... Artesian Basin, under permits issued by the state government. The expanded mine will rely mainly on water ...

19. Methane study reveals serious new climate threat

    elevated levels of methane above the water surface and even more in the water just below", researcher ... floor in volumes too great to be dissolved by the surrounding water. Echo-soundings detected ... water in growing volumes into the Arctic Ocean. Together with increased warming of ocean waters by the ...

20. Extreme floods are just the beginning

    temperature rises, air can hold sharply rising amounts of water vapour. Climate scientist Kevin Trenberth, ... that the global atmosphere now contains about 4% more water vapour than just 30 years ago. To this, add ... and cool water in the tropical Pacific. In the "El Nino" phase the cool anomaly is in the ...

21. BP prepares to drill Great Australian Bight

    and gas in an area the size of Wales more than 600 kilometres south-west of Port Lincoln. Waters in ... Island. Geologists have known for decades that oil and gas are likely to lie beneath the Bight waters ... exploration wells, mostly in shallow water. In 1993, BHP’s Greenly 1 well, now in Bight Petroleum’s permit ...

22. Climate change a factor in NSW’s devastating floods

    risen by about 0.5°C since the 1970s. Of course, pools of warm water occurred in the world’s oceans ... temperatures rise, the water-holding capacity of the atmosphere increases exponentially. Trenberth said in June ... last year: “Over the ocean... observations confirm that the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere ...

23. SA says no to Santos shale gas

    have to open up cracks in the shale by pumping down a high-pressure mix of water, sand and various ... poisonous hydrocarbons from the shale, can reach underground water. The energy corporations might argue that ... that the water from their bores now kills their stock. For all of these reasons, shale gas is ...

24. Unconventional fossil fuels in South Australia — a bonanza to pass up

    the coal with water vapour at high temperatures to produce a mixture of gases known as “syngas”. After ... The coalmine will be within the Great Artesian Basin, and large quantities of water will need to be ... pumped out to keep the workings dry. The developers pledge to re-inject enough water into aquifers to ...

25. Climate change and the Troll Rupert

    l <~>"Carbon dioxide isn't the main greenhouse gas. Water vapour is far more important." Increased ... carbon dioxide raises temperatures, enhancing evaporation and raising water vapour levels in the ... atmospheric water vapour is to stop burning fossil fuels. As carbon dioxide levels fall, water vapour levels ...

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