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1. Radioactive water contaminates Kakadu

   hearing that contaminated water was leaking into rock fissures beneath Kakadu National Park. Up to 100,000 ... litres of contaminated water from the mine tailings dam is escaping every day, said the March 13 Age. ...

2. Global warming in the Himalayas — the threat to Asia's water

   of water. "My house is above 4000 metres high", Dorje told �鶹��ý Weekly. "Because ... rivers in Asia. More than 1.3 billion people rely on this water for drinking and food production. Climate ... South Asia could be suffering significant water shortages and crop yields could decrease by as much as ...

3. Ten reasons climate activists should not support nuclear

   reckless. 2. Nuclear wastes water. Nuclear power is an incredibly water-guzzling energy source compared with ... freshwater shortages a lot worse. So it’s a bad idea to waste so much water on more nuclear. Uranium mining ...

4. Standing Rock and the long tradition of Indigenous resistance

   campaign against the DAPL to protect their land and water. The Indigenous-led coalition faced down ... threatening the water supply of a large area that includes unceded Indigenous territory. When it was still ... the DAPL was fast-tracked without review under US environmental laws such as Clean Water Act or the ...

5. Is there hope for the planet?

   Simon Butler Hell & High Water: Climate Change, Hope & the Human Condition By Alastair ... psychological aspects of the climate change dilemma in Hell and High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human ...

6. New coal seam gas rules in NSW fall short

   is needed to protect water reserves, farmland and communities from toxic contamination. The changes, ... need for a moratorium on new fracking projects — given the risks it poses to water and agriculture — it ... step”, but “the fact remains that BTEX can occur naturally in coal seams and be present in water that ...

7. Mine expansion delayed by Indigenous owners

   wants to double production at the mine and increase its life-span by 11 years. Water use is projected to ... gold and you can't drink cyanide. We must remember water is more precious than gold. Water is ...

8. Annie Leonard: Occupy mov't taking back our spaces

   The Story of Bottled Water and The Story of Cosmetics. A new cartoon, The Story of Broke: Why There is ...

9. Climate movement — what next?

   incremental campaigning based on watered-down goals is not working and yet what needs to be done is far bigger ...

10. 'Land rights- yes! Uranium- no!'

    exports supply many of Japan's power plants. Most likely, radioactive waste and water that has now ...

11. FoE: Vic gov't must ban coal seam gas, new coal

    investigation into the likely impacts of [the coal and coal seam gas] industry on water resources, farmland and ...

12. Climate scientists face rising abuse, threats

    Climate crisis Simon Butler Australian climate scientists and researchers are subject to a rising level of hate mail, abuse and death threats from climate change deniers. More than 30 researchers told the June 4 Canberra Times “they are receiving a stream ...

13. Climate 'hell' predicted if action not taken

    monsoon, an irreplaceable water source for billions of people, the scientists said. The climate models ... "But now we realise the situation is much worse. The water will become so acidic it will actually ...

14. Global warming records surpassed

    world’s hottest month since records began in 1880. It found the global combined land and water surface ... warmest recorded for the period. Taken separately, the global water surface temperature in April was the ...

15. Westpac the world’s most sustainable firm? That’s a bad joke

    water use has created pollution and severe water shortages. Duke Energy — the second biggest emitter of ... reported on February 3 that “an unknown amount of coal ash and water” had washed into a local river from ... change is caused by human activity. Brabeck is also on record saying that access to water is not a human ...

16. Arctic ice melt — corporations see profit in disaster

    ice and open water features to be detected that are not observed by other products”. Despite the ... As the ice cover retreats, the darker open water absorbs more heat from the sun, which in turn melts ... distances across open water when there is no sea ice to be found.” But the continued shrinking of the Arctic ...

17. Spoof website mocks new mining company ad campaign

    responds: “The mining industry has many negative impacts on the environment. It pollutes water systems and ...

18. WA gives go ahead for uranium mining

    "gross water usage", she added. November 22, 2008 776 News ...

19. Threat of 25% drop in world food

    Increasing water scarcities and a rise and spread of invasive pests such as insects, diseases and weeds — may ...

20. Build big solar in Port Augusta

    needed to extract much of the gas will pollute the soil, air and water. The CSG industry is also a huge ... water glutton. The federal government has estimated the industry will use about three times more water ...

21. Big Australian heat no passing episode

    water resources.” Alongside the water issue, an increase in very warm days also suggests a rise in the ... in yearly water inflow into the Murray-Darling basin.     On a global scale, the report says it is ...

22. Climate change threatens more hunger

    weather patterns, water scarcity, the spread of damaging insects and pests to new areas and land ... from water-fed agriculture in Africa could be down by 50%." Wheat production in south Asia's ... mean no water for irrigation for about half of Asia's total cereal production by 2050. The region ...

23. Russia, Pakistan show need for climate action

    villages. Thousands of hectares of crops have been destroyed due to flood water. Livestock, household goods, ... clothes, shoes and other items have been destroyed. Residents of villages are without drinkable water ... desperate need of food and clothing. Disease is spreading fast due to the lack of drinkable water. Flu, ...

24. Nothing new under the NT sun

    workers at the remote Newcastle Waters station had already walked off, demanding wages and treatment equal ... Newcastle Waters strike spread across the vast outback through word of mouth. Daniels revealed that other ... militant actions. Gurindji man Lupgna Giari was the leader of the Newcastle Waters strike. He became ...

25. Dirty money talks, governments baulk

    investigation of its impacts on farming, water and the health of nearby communities. Now, Victoria’s Liberal ...

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