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Climate change will leave wine-drinkers drunker and poorer
Posted by Quartz: Gwynn Guilford on August 2nd, 2014
Quartz: On Jul. 17, Australia scrapped its carbon tax--hardly a surprising move given that the country`s prime minister, Tony Abbott, once called evidence of climate change "absolute crap."
Australia`s winemakers, however, don`t seem to agree with Abbott. Several leading wineries are investing in Tasmania, a cooler island state 240 kilometers (150 miles) south of continental Australia. Wine production there is now growing nearly 10% a year, reports the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, while production...
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Australia launches ‘Green Army’ for environment
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 2nd, 2014
Agence France-Presse: Australia on Saturday launched its 'Green Army' which plans to recruit up to 15,000 young people for projects to conserve and rehabilitate the environment -- the biggest land care mobilisation in the nation's history.
Under the scheme, teams of young people will do work such as planting trees, restoring koala habitats, cleaning up creeks and rivers, conserving cultural heritage sites and monitoring threatened species.
"The Green Army is on the march from today," Prime Minister Tony Abbott told...