Tag: Environment
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Jane Goodall, 91, dies while on speaking tour
Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, has died at the age of 91, the institute she founded says. Goodall died of natural causes while in California on a speaking tour, the Jane Goodall Institute said in a social media post…
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Exclusive: Lord Mayor says Adelaide’s COP31 bid running hot in New York
Global climate change conference COP31 would make Adelaide “the biggest thing on the planet” should the city secure the event, Lord Mayor of Adelaide Dr Jane Lomax-Smith told InDaily. Speaking on her return from New York City where she addressed a forum at New York Climate Week, the Lord Mayor said Adelaide was “the hot…
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How one fossil-fuel giant captured Australia
Last week, the federal environment minister approved Woodside’s plans to keep its North West Shelf project producing gas out to 2070. Both the government and Woodside claim that gas is a necessary transition fuel as the world decarbonises – but how convincing are their arguments? Today, investigative journalist and author of the Quarterly Essay “Woodside…
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Top scientists blame ‘chronic’ underfunding for algal bloom gaps
The leading marine scientists today told the first hearing of the Federal Senate’s inquiry into South Australia’s algal bloom that the current disaster unfolding in South Australia needed a vital boost in marine ecosystem monitoring funding. An initial injection of $6 million would help with short-term projects to take full advantage of researching the ongoing…
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‘Loss of our sense of self’: inquiry reveals emotional impact of SA’s algal bloom
Communities and businesses reliant on South Australia’s ocean to relax, unwind and explore are revealing how their “mental health is suffering” as the ongoing algal bloom crisis continues to impact our coastline. Some claim to feel “incredibly hopeless” as official figures show the algal bloom has already caused the deaths of more than 13,000 marine…
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Murray Watt on our broken environmental laws and saying ‘yes’ to Woodside
Murray Watt has a big job – as federal Environment Minister, he’s been hand-picked by Albanese to fix Australia’s old and broken environment laws. It was a brief his predecessor Tanya Plibersek failed to achieve – with mining interests in Western Australia claiming success when a deal with the Greens was dashed by the prime…
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Queensland falls behind on organic waste targets
The Queensland Audit Office (QAO) carried out the performance report, outlining weaknesses in the Organics Strategy and recommendations for correction. Audits were carried out on the Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Brisbane City Council, Council of the City of Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast Council. The QAO chose these areas because they account…
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How could we clean up the algal bloom?
South Australia’s catastrophic harmful algal bloom now affects almost 30% of the state’s coastline, stretching from the Coorong in the state’s southeast to the seafood-rich Spencer Gulf to the west. With no end in sight, many South Australians are searching for solutions. Trials of physical, chemical and biological solutions have been run around the world…
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Critically endangered ‘living fossil’ found in South Australia
A team of researchers at the University of Adelaide has discovered a flock of critically endangered ground-dwelling birds known as Plains-wanderers – a bird so evolutionarily unique that it is referred to as a “living fossil”. The birds were found in a large flock on the eastern part of the state in Boolcoomatta conservation park;…
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Algal bloom ‘collapsing the ecosystem’: Opposition
The toxic algal bloom killing marine life off South Australia’s coast is causing “a collapse of the ecosystem”, Opposition Leader Sussan Ley says. On Wednesday, Ms Ley visited coastline and communities affected by the bloom, which has killed tens of thousands of marine animals since it was identified off the Fleurieu Peninsula in March, and…