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Changing climate and the resulting rise in the level of water is the biggest threat that the inhabitants of the islands of the Torres Strait in Australia are facing. The worst affected ones are the low-lying islands like the Murray Island where the...
Australia finally completed her ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on Wednesday leaving United States the only country to banish the UN treaty on global warming.
While undergoing his first overseas visit abroad after acquiring office Mr. Kevin...
Australia is facing the worst-ever drought in its history. Flash flooding a few months ago seemed to have marginalized drought, which has again sprouted its head from the dark, desiccating Australian food bowl.
First drought then floods and again...
Savannas, a main terrestrial biome comprises of a dynamic mix of trees and grasses that encompasses open woodlands and grassland. Savannas are frequently seen as a transitional zone, between forest regions and desert regions and are also much...
Cane toads have proven themselves to be one of Australia's worst environmental disasters. The Australian government is at its wits end on how to stop their increasing numbers. However, a new study hopes to ally their fears, it suggests that Cane toads...
Thousands of Australians who evacuated their houses for the fear of being wiped out by floods and storm, returned home. Though, not everyone is lucky, those dwelling downstream are still vulnerable, hence not allowed to go back.
A heavy storm...
For long Australia had been quite reluctant in paying heed to the issue of global warming. But, as he seeks reelection for the fifth consecutive year, Australian Prime Minister John Howard has promised to set up a carbon-trading scheme to cut...
Dominating the tree flora of Australia, ‘Eucalyptus’ finds a special place in the country with more than 700 ‘native’ species. Being economically important in terms of its uses, the tree’s existence was seen very early by European explorers and...
The hopes of Australia being an 'emission-controlled' nation by the decade’s end can be foreseen to have failed, as it would not be able to meet the Kyoto Protocol emissions targets within the stipulated time! -- The Herald Sun...
Earthquakes and tsunamis visit very often these days. But when they visit, they devastate life. The earthquake that struck a small island near Solomon capital, Honiara brought with it a tsunami. The quake read 8.0 on the Richter scale- the strongest in...
The University Creek of Townsville possesses the highest populations of native fish compared to what it was for the past 30 years. And the secret behind it are the 'fish passage devices' that are installed at the crossings of the road on the...
Researchers studying the critically endangered Irrawaddy river dolphin are skeptic about reports of a rise in the number of the creatures and fear the mammals are probably in greater danger than ever.
According to Cambodia's Commission for Mekong...
Perhaps it is the buzzwords “climate change” which is ruling the world of research and after-effect predictions that led to the previous conclusion that the Australia's giant prehistoric animals were likely wiped out by climate change!
But, the rule...
Tsunami, you don’t need to know how it is pronounced (soo-nahm-ee) or from where the word is derived (Tsunami is from the Japanese word for harbor wave). What every body esp. living on the coasts, needs to know is that tsunami is a series of huge...
The world would be a more dangerous place with nuclear weapons. Most of the nations in the world are now capable of converting uranium into gas commercially and are able to enrich that gas for fuel. These same facilities could be used to enrich...
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