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1. PHOTO STORY: Malaysian residents in 4th year of protest against Oz corporate toxic dumper Lynas

   water containment policy and practice in its concentration plant. However, its refinery in Malaysia will ... discharge between 500 and 700 tonnes of waste water into a river that is an important mangrove habitat in ...

2. Malaysia: Socialists and civil society groups deliver aid following worst floods in decades

   observation are Kelantan and Pahang. But the water was still high when we reached Pahang. In Kelantan, the ... heavy rain for only two days had caused the water levels to rise dramatically. The state of Kelantan has ...

3. 10 wins for the environment in 2014

   non-partisan and sustained local campaign showed how the community can mobilise to successfully protect water ... increases legal protection for wildlife on the peninsula and in adjacent coastal waters. 10. INCREASES IN ...

4. Manus hunger strikers ask the world for help

   refusing water. At least 14 had reportedly sewn their lips together. As a result of their organised ... where water was cut off for more than 24 hours over January 21-22 and banners painted by the asylum ...

5. Climate news: Australian sport feels the heat, and more

   Open tennis tournament last year. Players and court staff fainted, water bottles melted and ... could once again enter the water. The oil’s position on the sediment’s surface also means that it is ...

6. Gas industry seeks a lifeline as opposition mounts

   Santos has faced widespread condemnation over water contamination and spills in its Pilliga forest gas ... highly toxic BTEX chemicals were discovered in waste water onsite. On March 6, three weeks before the NSW ...

7. Refugees defy police, protest Nauru conditions

   without water in some cells”, RAC said. Nauru's government had previously threatened refugees with up ... of water to share. Analysis ...

8. Peru: Workers' solidarity aids anti-mine fight

   water supply. The federal government has declared martial law and sent soldiers into the region. It also ... history. The company did not alert the local community for two days, only doing so after the river’s water ...

9. Bulga, Rio Tinto and the final void

   by Holly Creenaune of Land, Water, Future. Coal is in structural decline. The present approval ... hundreds of Final Voids filling up with tainted water in the Hunter Valley has not been researched. “We ...

10. Fighting deforestation: Bolivia's green gains the media isn't talking about

    clean water and forests”. Bajak said this contradiction was a result of Morales’ strategy of developing ... includes decreasing water and food supplies and less biodiversity. Second, given the impact deforestation ...

11. End the nuclear age to preserve our future

    radiation began to poison the survivors and then the land, air and water of the entire region. Similar ... the Global South and limits access to resources, oil, water and gas will become the sources of ...

12. Australian mining activist released from Malaysian prison

    licence to operate. The plant requires a massive amount of water and acid for processing the rare earth ... including the absence of a safe radioactive waste disposal plan and outmoded air and water pollution control ...

13. Environmental authority approves uranium mine in WA

    of WA’s special places — our largest national park — and would impact on scarce water resources and ... Karlamilyi National Park. The area includes permanent water holes, ephemeral rivers and salt lakes. There are ...

14. CSG industry spin can’t change the dirty facts

    drilling pad, pumps, generators, compressors, vehicles and a storage pond or tank to hold waste water ... mining waste water and underground systems. Researchers from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

15. New report shows extent of climate crisis for Pacific Islands

    generally increased over this period by a similar amount. This warming of the Pacific Ocean’s surface waters ... was accompanied by a cooling of equatorial waters 200 metres below the surface. This distinctive ...

16. The Lorax: An eco-parable for our times

    the residents their bottled water. Twelve-year-old Ted Wiggin (Zac Efron), wanting to win the ... O’Hare, who sells bottled water and oxygen to the people of Thneedville. O'Hare views Ted's bid ...

17. Peru: Mine probe test for Humala

    methods were cheap, primitive and highly toxic. When livestock began dying after drinking local water ... previously-pristine waters. An environmental monitoring study conducted by Germany's Christian Albrecht ...

18. The Titanic: class war on the high seas

    condensed into a few tragic and injustice-filled hours. With the ship taking water fast, access to lifeboats ... like Gracie, were flung into the water near an upturned lifeboat, which they commandeered. The rest ...

19. Victorian budget hands down biggest cuts since Kennett

    the budget announcements is the news that concessions on water bills, energy bills and municipal rates ... Melbourne and the water retailers. He has ruled out selling off schools and police stations. The Baillieu ...

20. Marrickville Council locks the gate on coal seam gas

    development application — and with potentially dire consequences for community health and water supplies. ... Australia’s drinking water and food security. Green said on May 10: “We have always been aware that this has ...

21. We need an Abbott-proof fence

    asylum seekers “turned around and escorted back to Indonesian waters”. Abbott would reintroduce ... right again, including watering down unfair dismissal laws even more. But in recognition of the huge ...

22. Unholy Abbott/Gillard alliance strengthens racist 'Fortress Australia'

    waters exposes this fake concern for refugees. The government has ignored such concerns and dumped the ... responsibility for refugees in international waters on Indonesia – despite its hugely inferior naval and ...

23. Police break up blockade, but Fullerton Cove locals still determined to stop CSG drilling

    concern is the effect drilling could have on aquifers. “There's no town water. Locals use aquifers ... for all their water needs,” Clout said. “There’s enough evidence out there to show that this is ...

24. Noam Chomsky: Israel has made Gaza a giant prison

    taking over much of the land and scarce water of the Strip and living “lavishly in twenty-two settlements ... supplies within its territorial waters. By coincidence or not, that is when Israel intensified its naval ... gunboats driving fishermen out of Gaza’s territorial waters and towards shore, so they are compelled to ...

25. Democracy must apply to mining

    the environmental damage, competition with drinking water catchments and food growing lands, ... and water should be actively supported. Initiatives that challenge the undemocratic process regarding ...

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