Category: Environment

Bell Bay, at the mouth of the Tamar River, as soon as housed Tasmania’s solely oil-fired energy station. It was inbuilt the Sixties and, when it was decommissioned in 2009, a brand new plant started working immediately subsequent door: Tamar Valley Power Station, which runs on gasoline as an alternative. Today, as the world edges […]

In a global first an endangered species that was extinct in the wild has been efficiently reintroduced and had its conservation status modified, with Victoria’s jap barred bandicoot inhabitants efficiently pulled back from the brink of extinction. On Wednesday, Environment Minister Lily D’Ambrosio will announce that the bandicoot’s threatened species status has been downgraded to […]

The NSW State Emergency Service is making ready for a heightened threat of floods throughout the coming storm season with a few third of its metropolitan employees residents in COVID-19 hotspots. The odds for a busy season of rescues elevated on Tuesday, with the Bureau of Meteorology lifting its assessment of a La Nina occasion […]

Opinion September 14, 2021 — 5.44pm September 14, 2021 — 5.44pm Australia holds the doubtful and undesirable distinction as a world chief when it comes to nudging species over the brink into extinction, together with nearly three dozen species of mammals since Europeans arrived. So it was a welcome transfer by NSW Environment Minister Matt […]

Opinion October 15, 2021 — 5.00am October 15, 2021 — 5.00am This week we noticed a crescendo of Australian business assist for local weather change motion. The Business Council of Australia proposed robust emissions cuts. News Corporation launched a marketing campaign to assist a goal of web zero by 2050. The Australian Financial Review ran […]

By Alan Finkel October 15, 2021 — 5.00am Almost two years in the past, the nationwide hydrogen technique was unanimously adopted by the federal, state and territory governments. At the time, I famous that chairing the event of the technique was one in every of my proudest achievements as Australia’s then chief scientist and that […]

NSW hydrogen joins unstoppable energy revolution, yet tariffs pose big threat while we lump coal By Nicki Hutley October 14, 2021 — 5.00am Acting swiftly on local weather change issues, for environmental causes because the local weather disaster escalates, and for financial causes as low carbon turns into the worldwide norm. That means embracing the […]

The absence of Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the upcoming COP26 local weather talks would be vital, though Australian leaders don’t attend every of the annual summits. “We haven’t made any final decisions about [attending COP26]. I mean it is another trip overseas and I’ve been on several this year and spent a lot of […]

Opinion September 27, 2021 — 5.00am September 27, 2021 — 5.00am Nancy Pelosi, the US Speaker of the House, final week inadvertently gave Labor a preview of its worst nightmare. Standing subsequent to our Prime Minister, Pelosi delivered a reasonably bland assertion about engaged on “critical priorities”, together with “so many other things in terms […]

Tasmanian devils, whale sharks and threatened forests in NSW and Victoria are among nearly 200 species and ecosystems that may no longer require recovery plans however merely conservation recommendation, according to changes proposed by the federal environment department. The proposal to ditch the necessity for recovery plans for the 185 at-risk species and ecological communities […]