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Australia: NSW koala habitat lost as land clearing continues: 'It would take the army to police these blokes'

2016-08-10 12:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Age: For the past five years, Alaine Anderson has watched with horror as great swathes of koala-friendly woodlands in their region of northern NSW have been smashed by bulldozers and then torched in bonfires. "We don't have much time to tell the truth," the 63-year-old farmer and grandmother said during a recent visit to her property at Croppa Creek. The extent of wide-scale land clearing across NSW is revealed in the new documentary, Cultivating Murder. Time is indeed short, with the latest figures...

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Craft beer craze drives demand for hops in Australia

2016-08-09 02:40:30| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Australia's increasing thirst for craft beer is driving demand for hops.

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Australia: Labor slams Turnbull government 'flip-flopping' on CSIRO climate research

2016-08-08 14:04:14| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Sydney Morning Herald: Greg Hunt has revealed a plan to focus on climate science with millions more in investment that will create new jobs. The cuts had prompted widespread condemnation, and fears that Australia was undermining global efforts to monitor and predict climate change. The new strategy, which is yet to be fully devised, includes 15 new climate science jobs and research investment worth $37 million over 10 years. The government has increased CSIRO's agency-wide budget from $1.35 billion this financial...

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Australia: One Nation's Malcolm Roberts vows to halt 'ridiculous lies' on climate change

2016-08-04 08:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: On the day the government moved to save 15 of 35 climate science positions planned to be cut at the CSIRO, the Senate election results in Queensland showed One Nations Malcolm Roberts had won a second seat for the party in that state. He stood in front of the media and denounced the government for taking part in an international climate change conspiracy and called for all policies that aim to reduce greenhouse gases to be abandoned. This is the climate sceptic behind Pauline Hansons latest...

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Australia: Suncorp becomes huge believer in climate change

2016-08-04 08:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Australian Financial Review: There is a strange dichotomy going on in the upper ranks of Suncorp, one of the country's biggest general insurers. Its CEO, Michael Cameron, is not convinced humans cause climate change but he has radically changed the company's reinsurance policies to protect shareholders against catastrophes that he believes are caused by climate change. Cameron told Chanticleer on Thursday that there is no doubt Australia's climate is changing. The proof, he says, is in the increased frequency of medium...

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