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3/4/2013
Australia has been warned: it's time to adapt to a changed
climate. The extreme weather that has rocked the country over the last couple of years is a result of human-induced
climate change, and will only get worse without immediate drastic ...
7/3/2013
The hottest summer on record. The hottest January on record. The hottest day on record for Australia as a whole.
Bushfires in every state and territory. Daily rainfall records and major flooding. Over a period of 90 days, these were some of the ...
7/1/2013
Australian has been bracing for near-record temperatures, with
bushfires ablaze in five out of six states. Police in Tasmania are still searching for those reported missing after fire swept across the island last week.
Prime Minister ...
9/7/2011
THERE is only one way to frame tomorrow`s carbon tax announcement: a start. Assume Australia hits its very soft target, cutting annual greenhouse gas emissions by 5per cent by 2020, and the rest of the world does everything they`ve promised: we ...
8/7/2011
THE government is announcing the details of a carbon tax and emissions trading scheme at a time when public attitudes and scientific assessments are heading in opposite directions.
Voters are becoming less concerned about the threat of ...
17/6/2011
A bull giraffe flanked by a female strides through the Kwedi area of the Okavango delta.The Okavango delta in Botswana has suffered "catastrophic" species loss over the past 15 years, researchers have announced , in the latest sign of a ...
5/6/2011
Here in the City of Roses, the annual Rose Festival celebration will have to proceed without the roses. For the second consecutive year, there has been record rainfall on the Portland parade. The weather finally turned, but locals are wondering ...
5/4/2011
Australia's
bushfire risk will increase by 25 per cent in less than a decade if
climate change pushes up average temperatures by just 0.4 degrees by 2020, according to CSIRO research.But that risk could more than double by 2020, with the ...
28/1/2011
IN THE MIDST of this month's ruinous and deadly floods in Queensland and other states too, I posed the question: If weather-related disasters are the new normal, how do we pay for rescue, recovery and rebuilding?
The question flows from ...
16/1/2011
IN A land of
droughts and flooding rains, it's often hard to remember when you're being scorched by one or submerged by the other. But lately Australia seems to be oscillating between increasingly regular and ruinous extreme weather events - and ...
1/1/2011
The worst floods in Queensland's history, described yesterday as "a disaster of biblical proportions", have swamped an area the size of France and Germany combined and displaced more than 200,000 people.
With 22 towns inundated following ...
19/12/2010
One of the lucky ones - Nat White on his thriving Mornington Peninsula vineyard. Photo: Simon O'Dwyer
CLIMATE change has done Nat White a big favour. It has provided his boutique Mornington Peninsula vineyard with the perfect conditions ...
27/9/2010
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard Monday launched a new push to charge for carbon pollution after being punished for a perceived failure to tackle environmental issues during recent elections.
Gillard, whose fragile coalition ...
13/8/2010
You don't have to be Lord Stern to see how the costs of
climate change are already compounding and spiralling, out of control.
Some costs are relatively benign - such as the devaluation of waterfront properties in Byron Bay as sea levels ...
8/2/2010
THERE are many ways to skin a camel, but none, it seems, that count towards reducing Australia's carbon footprint.
Scientists have found camels to be the third-highest carbon-emitting animal per head on the planet, behind only cattle and ...
28/1/2010
Climate change could more than triple the risk of catastrophic wildfires in parts of Australia, a top environmental group warned Thursday, almost a year since savage firestorms that killed 173 people.Greenpeace warned that, without a new ...
27/1/2010
Australia faces a possible 300 percent increase in extreme
bushfires by 2050 unless world leaders can agree to dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions, a new report said on Thursday.
The report, commissioned by Australia's firefighters ...
3/11/2009
AUSTRALIA has been accused of pushing for a "get-out clause" on
climate change that would grant it unlimited carbon credits from new forestry plantations while pretending that enormous greenhouse gas emissions from
bushfire did not ...
21/10/2009
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warned the nation Wednesday to brace for a severe
bushfire season as fire crews battled intense blazes stoking memories of infernos earlier this year which killed 173 people.
With the fire season ...
7/4/2009
Climate change will bring about major shifts in worldwide fire patterns, and those changes are coming fast, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with scientists ...
7/4/2009
When it comes to global warming and wildfires, the bad news is that rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns that accompany
climate change will make some areas more susceptible to outbreaks.
The good news is that by using ...
24/3/2009
THE head of the Federal Government's
climate change review, Ross Garnaut, warned that Australia was likely to face a world tariff war driven by Europe and the US over greenhouse gas emissions unless there was a strong global agreement to prevent ...
9/3/2009
World water supplies may be severely stressed in coming decades because of global
climate change linked to the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil. The U.S. West is one of the places that has the most to lose with water scarcity, but ...
21/2/2009
ELIZABETH JACKSON: The
Climate Institute says the devastating Victorian
bushfires were the direct result of
climate change.
The Institute says the conditions which caused the severity of the fires - the extreme heat, the low humidity, ...
20/2/2009
A Country Fire Authority firefighter takes a break while fighting a
bushfire at Bunyip state forest near Tonimbuk, Australia Photograph: Andrew Brownbill/EPA
In view of the scale of this fire's consumption of humans, animals, houses and ...