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Australian minister: I never saw advice against coal port
2013-04-26 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia's environment minister said he never saw advice that a proposed coal port posed "extreme" risks including threats to endangered turtles and a species of dolphin at the Great Barrier Reef. Campaigners said Tony Burke should have ruled out the Fitzroy Terminal as soon as the government received the strongly worded warnings, rather than allow the company to undertake a lengthy environmental impact statement. But a spokeswoman said the minister had not seen the 2011 advice and the...
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Australian research helping Ethiopian agriculture adjust to changing climate
2013-04-25 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Australian dryland farming expertise is being seen as a model for other countries as they learn to live with changed climate. The University of Tasmania is hosting a number of Ethiopian agricultural scientists completing Phd's on climate change and farming with increasing climate variability. Agricultural scientists Tewodros Mesfin and Nega Debela work with small scale subsistence farmers in Ethiopia who are grappling with more variable climate. The low input farms combine crops with livestock,...
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Australian coal exports are not needed: Greenpeace steps in to halt coal
2013-04-24 09:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenpeace: Greenpeace has campaigned against the expansion of coal exports from Queensland, through the Great Barrier Reef, using every legitimate means we can to stop them going ahead. Weve made detailed submissions, weve triggered Departmental inquiries, weve used Freedom of Information to expose holes in assessments, weve helped 25,000 people make submissions to processes, weve published full page advertisements and weve written large on a beach our call to protect the Reef from coal. All to no...
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Greenpeace activists board Australian coal ship in reef protest
2013-04-24 08:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Six Greenpeace activists boarded a coal ship bound for South Korea near Australia's Great Barrier Reef on Wednesday, protesting against the expansion of the rich Australian coal industry and its impact on the World Heritage site. Environmentalists say the Great Barrier Reef, a popular tourist site worth about A$6 billion ($6.1 billion) a year to the Australia economy, is threatened by dredging, sedimentation and coal port and shipping development. UNESCO will decide in June whether the reef...
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VIDEO: Australian films hit by rising costs
2013-04-24 03:37:53| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Energy and labour costs are rising dramatically in Australia, and coupled with a strong currency, they are hurting businesses and consumers.
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