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Greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost have been greatly underestimated in current climate models, according to…
Natural variability alone does not account for observed changes in global (ocean and land) precipitation; rather, those changes…
Many surface soils in the southwest of Western Australia are already storing as much carbon as they can, a study has found…
Flights entering and exiting Australia and New Zealand are responsible for the highest levels of ozone pollution created…
A Curtin University survey has shown Australian winemakers are working to reduce climate change by cutting down their use…
A new micro-organism has been discovered that could help tackle greenhouse gas emissions. University of Queensland researchers…
A joint project between scientists in the UK and China has shown how improved methods of manufacturing nitrogen fertiliser and better use of it by farmers could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by hundreds…
The recent decision by two Australian retailers to sign an accord protecting suppliers in Bangladesh has highlighted discrepancies in company disclosure of sustainability issues and the need for clearer…
Researchers in the US have done the first ever whole-country study of methane emissions. In some cases they found higher…
A recent paper by University of Adelaide researchers shows that if one applies “cautious optimism”, carbon prices can help…
A PhD student from the University of Western Australia has developed a new method to measure gases. Scientist can now measure…
The past is the key to the future. When snow falls on polar ice sheets, in Greenland and Antarctica for example, air is trapped between the snowflakes. Year after year, the snow compacts under its own…
Some critics of carbon pricing have pointed out that, over time, the carbon price will increase to a much higher level and devastate the economy. Indeed, the image of a python squeezing the life out of…
The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency’s 2012 report, indicates that global CO₂ emissions increased by 3% in 2011…
Greenhouse gas cuts pledged by developed countries will not be enough to stop temperatures rising by 2 degrees by 2100, according…
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions is like buying an insurance policy: we incur a cost to reduce a risk. Every year Australians spend millions on insuring homes, cars and their health, not because they know…
A catchment threatened by salinity can’t be repaired by one or two landholders. Revegetation designed to lower watertables has its greatest ecological benefit where the plants are, but its net impact on…
Severe droughts, floods and landslides devastated parts of the world last year as carbon dioxide concentrations climbed to…
The two main political parties agree to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 to 5% below the 2000 level, or about a 20% reduction below business as usual. However, they propose very different policy…
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