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Bob Brown: 'World needs social justice for all'
have, clean water, making decisions about our lives." The economic gap is widening, not only ...
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Rainbow Warrior on tour of Australia
a comprehensive sampling program of water quality in coastal zones. Thorstensen said the campaign would also have ...
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Loose cannons
water guns. It figures Wages at Buckingham Palace "are on the low side. A junior housemaid is paid ...
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Emerald Beach fight continues
tertiary treatment for the effluent, using the water for irrigation in the area, and for investigating ...
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Hamed is only the first to die: bring the refugees here
calling on the Australian government to reinstate power and water to the detention centre. Many people ...
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Glenn Greenwald: Dictator-loving Trump's fake 'support' for Iranians is gross hypocrisy
at least 22 people are dead and hundreds have been arrested, as authorities used tear gas and water ...
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Weather records tumble: our future is at stake
evaporation, and more water vapour carried in the air. This can contribute to drier conditions over land, ... exacerbating droughts. It also can increase the amount of rain or snow when that extra water vapour does ... choose to cut climate change programs like Solar Flagships, energy efficiency and the solar hot water ...
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Metgasco raises the stakes in NSW
land and water. After Metgasco announced it would be carrying out pre-fracking seismic tests, Lismore ... water resources, including the Liverpool Plains, Sydney's drinking water catchment and the Northern ...
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Fiji's severe cyclone-- climate change claims more victims
and thousands left homeless, deprived of livelihood and at risk of water- and mosquito-borne diseases. ... authorities were also concerned about lack of clean water carrying the risk of outbreaks of water ...
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Sanders wins Maine with record turnout, slams Wall Street bailouts in debate
economically devastated city of Flint is also badly suffering from the poisoning of its water supply as ... our water infrastructures all over this country. “I know that our democracy has failed in many ... debate carrying signs against Flint's officials for their role in causing the water crisis, which ...
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Anti-fracking protesters take aim at Santos
transport drinking and bathing water to these communities because the children cannot have baths in the bore ... water as they get chemical burns all over their bodies. “The Nannas are cranky now. We are no longer ... “Our people fought and died to protect our land and water. We have to take direct action as the ...
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NT government caves in to anti-fracking pressure
a bore field that supplies 20% of Darwin’s water. Public objections to the application closed in ... organised to protect their land and water. Just days before the announcement of the rural area reservation, ... asking for their coastal waters to be protected from exploration. The Protect Arnhem Land campaign was ...
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Don’t frack the Lesueur National Park
livelihood. The Yarragadee is also an important groundwater resource for Perth. The threat to the water is ... also a threat to Yamatji Aboriginal cultural heritage, given that there are many sacred water sites ... — which involves the high-pressure injection of large volumes of water, sand and undisclosed chemicals ...
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Abbott turns back boats, with force
them in Indonesian waters. Continuing the government’s practice of absolute secrecy about the ... asylum seekers being handcuffed before their boat was towed back to Indonesian waters and abandoned in ... rough seas. Asylum seeker Yousif Ibrahim from Sudan said: "We asked for water, they didn't ...
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Napthine must act to protect community's health first
must balance the water being brought into the mine (and dumped on the fire) with the ability to pump ... water out of the mine. Early in the fire’s existense it was said that this was necessary to maintain ... power supply. It has also been claimed that too much water may affect the integrity of mine walls. The ...
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Westpac still backs Great Barrier Reef destruction
campaign aims to stop the building of the world’s biggest coal port in Reef waters at Abbot Point, 50 ... our lands, waters, our country and our community. “I am a young person of the oldest continuous ... If our environments are unhealthy, we are unhealthy. If our lands and waters are sick, we are sick. ...
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Climate: Australian frogs face bleak future
other terrestrial animal, need water to survive. In inland wetlands along the east coast of Australia, ... eggs in water, the Southern Corroboree frog lays its eggs in a moss-lined nest on the bank of a bog. ... as the summer approaches, the bogs begin to dry out. If the water level drops too low before the ...
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Carlo's Corner: Finally, Australia is getting noticed, shame it is for being cruel racists
Murdoch's Sun tabloid: “Show me pictures of coffins, show me bodies floating in water, play violins and show ... not be big enough to cope. Second, the government claims no boats entered Australian waters last year, ... We also have no idea how many boats were stopped in international waters or the fate of any boat ...
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Will Abbott save Galilee Basin coalmine?
Edinburgh, Hong Kong, Paris, Ho Chi Minh City and Tehran. Greens deputy leader Senator Larissa Waters said in ... Queensland's water supplies, damage the Great Barrier Reef and cook the planet. “Why should mining magnates ... like Gina Rinehart and Clive Palmer get taxpayer-funded handouts to suck up Queensland's water for ...
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Frackman details one man's fight against gas multinationals
property. Pratzky learns these wells have led to severe contamination of water — so bad that the water ... trucks. There were also night-time operations in which Pratzky sneaks into closed sites to take water and ...
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Darwin protester disrupts Talisman Sabre
standing in the water off Lee Point, right in the path of the US Navy LCAC amphibious craft, it continued ... to rush back and forth past me until I was removed from the area by water police. Its final pass, ... before I was plucked from the water by police, came so close that the bow wave knocked me over. I was ...
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James Hansen predicts higher sea level rises
sea level was 5 to 9 metres higher than it is today due to the release of glacial water. They ... ocean's circulation, causing cool water to stay in the Earth's polar regions and equatorial water to ...
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Linc Energy’s toxic legacy in Darling Downs
using conventional coal seam gas (CSG) methods. In conventional CSG fracking, water is pumped into the ... coal seams, causing the release of contaminants into the soil, air and water. They allege Linc injected ... to cover the cost of cleaning up the water and sediment in several storage dams at the facility, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...