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10/5/2008
ANOTHER devastating year is on the cards for many irrigators in the Murray-Darling Basin. Autumn has seen a return to near-record low inflows and history has proved that a dry autumn usually means the rest of the year will be ...   
10/5/2008
PIPING recycled sewage to reservoirs in Melbourne's east would be a cheaper and less environmentally damaging solution to the city's water crisis than desalination, the State Government was told two years ago. The conclusion was ...   
9/5/2008
There is no end in sight to the drought afflicting the Murray-Darling Basin and the big dry could become a permanent feature of eastern Australia, experts warn. The latest Murray System Drought Update contains nothing but bad ...   
9/5/2008
The latest climate change science suggests Australia's food bowl should plan for permanently reduced autumn rainfall. The Murray Darling Basin Commission's May drought update also shows little prospect of an improvement in the ...   
8/5/2008
It has become taboo over recent years, but population, not consumption, really is the key to managing our use of the world's resources, says John Feeney, Only since 1800, in the last 0.01 per cent of the history of Homo sapiens, has ...   
8/5/2008
A TOP Indian advocacy group that monitors climate change in south Asia warned last night that the Nargis cyclone that devastated Burma was "a sign of things to come", as climate change caused extreme weather to increase in ...   
8/5/2008
Former Selangor mentri besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo claims his government had not approved any logging activity in the Raja Muda Forest Reserve but had tried to prosecute offenders instead. “We tried to take two persons to ...   
8/5/2008
The United Nations Environment Programme on Thursday voiced concern over declining numbers of migratory birds globally, in what it said was an alarming sign of the state of world biodiversity. "The decline in numbers is ...   
8/5/2008
The once-green Sahara turned to desert over thousands of years rather than in an abrupt shift as previously believed, according to a study on Thursday that may help understanding of future climate changes. And there are now signs ...   
8/5/2008
The grassy prehistoric Sahara turned into Earth's largest hot desert more slowly than previously thought, a new report says—and some say global warming may turn the desert green once again. The new research is based on deposits ...   
8/5/2008
Solar water heaters and clotheslines won big at the state Legislature this session, but a plastic-bag bill snagged on whether counties should be allowed to enact tighter restrictions. The governor has until July 8 to take action ...   
7/5/2008
Curbing a notorious form of industrial pollution may ironically harm Amazonia, one of the world's natural treasures and a key buffer against global warming, a study released Wednesday has found. Its authors see a strong link ...   
7/5/2008
Tens of thousands of new homes could be built on areas at risk of flooding across London, it was claimed today. The Countryside Alliance said figures obtained from London boroughs following a Freedom of Information request showed ...   
7/5/2008
Simple rules about river flows decide how many type of fish thrive in any one spot, a finding that could help site dams to minimise disruptions to wildlife, researchers said on Wednesday. A study of the vast Mississippi-Missouri ...   
7/5/2008
Prepare for more floods -- in ways we are not used to - that's the message from experts at Durham University who have studied rainfall and river flow patterns over 250 years. Last summer was the second wettest on record and ...   
7/5/2008
More than 9,000 padi farmers in Selangor face the possibility of losing their crop because illegal loggers have felled timber in a water catchment area of the Raja Musa Forest Reserve which is a source of water to their padi fields. The ...   
6/5/2008
Thousands of hectares of green belt have been lost to development in recent years and more is under threat, the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has warned. Despite commitments by the Government to preserve green belt ...   
6/5/2008
The destruction of mangrove forests that served as a buffer from the sea is partly to blame for the massive death toll from a cyclone in Myanmar, the head of the ASEAN regional bloc said Tuesday. More than 15,000 people have ...   
6/5/2008
Destruction of mangrove forests in Burma left coastal areas exposed to the devastating force of the weekend's cyclone, a top politician suggests. ASEAN secretary-general Surin Pitsuwan said coastal developments had resulted in ...   
6/5/2008
In 1945, when Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, Mikhail M. Kozhov began keeping track of what was happening under the surface of Lake Baikal, the ancient Siberian lake that is the deepest and largest body of fresh water on ...   
6/5/2008
The Asian Development Bank has listed Manila among the Asian cities that are vulnerable to flooding due to climate change. “Some 1.2 billion people could experience freshwater shortages by 2020, while crop yields in Central and ...   
6/5/2008
Investigators searched for clues on Monday in the shooting deaths of six protected sea lions at a dam between Washington state and Oregon, while officials halted a controversial trapping program aimed at stopping the mammals from eating ...   
6/5/2008
Australia: Wine industry warned on climate change, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Grape growers are being warned to take climate change more seriously. A visiting American academic, Professor Greg Jones, has warned that wine grape-growing will suffer greatly from the effects of climate change. South ...   
6/5/2008
Britain faces a period of flooding on a scale 'beyond most people's living memory', experts warn. The number of people and properties likely to be affected has been underestimated because predictions are based on figures first ...   
5/5/2008
The Patagonian region of southern Chile is considered one of the world's last, great wildernesses, dubbed an "eco-gem" for its rare fauna, ice-sculptured fjords and almost total absence of industrial development. But ...   

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