Issue date : Mon 1 March, 2021
Estimated Reading Time : 04 Min 14 Seconds
Number of items : 50
‘The product is dangerous’: NSW moves to ban toxic firefighting chemical
The Sydney Morning Herald
Mon 1 March, 2021
The state government will ban firefighting foams containing PFAS chemicals, bringing NSW into line with Queensland and South Australia where foams containing the dangerous toxins are already outlawed.
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The Newcastle HeraldNSW government bans PFAS for fire fighting training, with full ban from September 2022
News.com.au
NSW moves to ban ‘toxic’ firefighting foam containing PFAS chemicals
The Australian
Yahoo News
PFAS firefighting foam banned in NSW
Perthnow
The West Australian
University of Tasmania clears scientists accused of research misconduct by logging industry
The Conversation
Mon 1 March, 2021
Two conservation scientists have been cleared of research misconduct by the University of Tasmania after a review sparked by complaints from logging industry representatives.
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Western Australia's $40m native sandalwood industry risks collapse, industry groups warn
ABC News
Mon 1 March, 2021
Members of Western Australia's $40-million native sandalwood industry have warned it could collapse under the weight of increased market supply and overharvesting of wild stocks.
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Look up! A powerful owl could be sleeping in your backyard after a night surveying kilometres of territory
The Conversation
Mon 1 March, 2021
Picture this: you’re in your backyard gardening when you get that strange, ominous feeling of being watched. You find a grey oval-shaped ball about the size of a thumb, filled with bones and fur — a pellet, or “owl vomit”.
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Dubbo zoo celebrates the arrival of rare baby black rhino
The New Daily
Mon 1 March, 2021
Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo is celebrating the birth of a critically endangered black rhino calf, who is the last baby for her dad who died 2020.
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'We could lead': How the ACT can spearhead national waste management effort
The Canberra Times
Mon 1 March, 2021
The ACT has the potential to become a national leader in waste management strategy by focusing more on a circular economy, according to the territory's sustainability and environment commissioner.
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Finland’s Coldest Town Launches Summer Olympic Games Bid To Raise Awareness About Climate Change, Via Agencia Africa
B & T
Mon 1 March, 2021
An Arctic town in Finland has gained the world’s attention with a bid for 2032 Summer Games. The campaign highlights the magnitude of global warming.
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Climate campaign teens prepare for court battle with minister over coal expansion
The Age
Sun 28 February, 2021
Anjali Sharma first felt a sick sense of climate-related dread in the pit of her stomach when she was a primary school student.
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Strong climate targets make strong friendships, Fiji tells Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sun 28 February, 2021
Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has called on Australia to increase its emissions reductions goals after a United Nations report showing that despite new commitments the world is still on track for devastating global warming.
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ACT environment minister fears new standards will lock in weak wildlife protections
The Canberra Times
Sun 28 February, 2021
The ACT government has "significant concerns" about proposed new national environment standards, concerned the model put forward would lock-in the weak protections for Australia's threatened wildlife.
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Territorians oppose cotton farms until environmental damage is addressed: Poll
The New Daily
Sun 28 February, 2021
Northern Territorians are worried about the potential damage large-scale cotton operations could do to Top End rivers, a survey has found.
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Latest climate pledges are 'very far' from Paris goals needed to avert catastrophic global warming, UN warns
SBS World News Australia
Sun 28 February, 2021
The updated pledges of countries as part of the Paris Climate deal are a long way off what is needed, with the United Nations urging G20 nations to do more.
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Hotter, Colder, Whatever – It’s All Due to Climate Change
The Daily Telegraph
Sun 28 February, 2021
Experts told Austin, Texas, that an approaching warm winter was evidence of climate change.
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Does Australian coal produce much lower emissions as the PM claimed?
The Canberra Times
Sun 28 February, 2021
THE STATEMENT
"Because Australian coal compared to the coal that is sourced from other countries, the other countries have 50 per cent higher emissions than Australian coal."
Scott Morrison, Liberal Party leader and Australian prime minister, December 15, 2020.
True?
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Environmental collapse: It’s time economists put the planet on their balance sheets
Reneweconomy
Sun 28 February, 2021
A ‘ground-sparing’ economic report on biodiversity indicates that economic practice will have to change because the world is finite.
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'Agrifood' hub aims to provide jobs, boost economy
The Canberra Times
Sun 28 February, 2021
A 105-hectare property on the outskirts of Canberra is set to become home to a self-sustaining Murray cod fishery and an organic cider mill, among other agrifood businesses, as part of an innovative "agrihub".
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Mysterious secret brumbies of central Victoria located and tamed thanks to eight-month pandemic mission
ABC News
Sun 28 February, 2021
What started with a fresh steaming pile of manure has become a mystery that Leslie Scott says will: "haunt me to the day I die".
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Scent detector dogs trained to eradicate invasive turtles from waterways in New South Wales
News.com.au
Sun 28 February, 2021
A specially-trained squad of scent detector dogs has been unleashed to eradicate an alien turtle species from waterways and wetlands in New South Wales.
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The Gold Coast Bulletin
The Herald Sun
The Mercury
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Polar bear frolics puts conservation in the frame
The Courier Mail
Sun 28 February, 2021
Today is International Polar Bear Day and Sea World’s big white furballs celebrated with a refreshing dip in the theme park’s ice-cold lagoon.
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Stinging rebuke over bid for park bee hives in draft Apiary Policy
The Advertiser
Sun 28 February, 2021
Allowing more hives for honeybees in public parks would be bad for the environment, scientists say, challenging the state's draft apiary policy.
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Last of the large trees: a day at the Errinundra forest blockade
The Guardian
Sun 28 February, 2021
The word was out: a section of the unburnt forest on the edge of the scorched Errinundra plateau was set to be logged and the small nearby community of Goongerah in Gippsland’s far east were on alert.
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‘Insane’: Proposed gold mine to take coal wastewater, dam headwaters
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sun 28 February, 2021
A new gold mine planned in NSW will pump in as much as 15.6 million litres a day of excess wastewater from coal mines almost 90 kilometres away.
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The West Australian
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‘It’s a funeral march’: French artist JR’s powerful eulogy for Australia's Murray-Darling
The Guardian
Sun 28 February, 2021
The street artist’s latest work saw 60 people parade through Lake Cawndilla in NSW, holding aloft enormous portraits of local farmers and leaders as they fight to save Australia’s vital river system
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Family honoured for 100 years of service to Bureau of Meteorology say past 10 years one of the driest
ABC News
Sun 28 February, 2021
A Queensland family honoured for 100 years of service to the Bureau of Meteorology as rain observers say the past 10 years have been the driest on record.
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Australia pumped out an extra six months' worth of emissions than previously recorded
The Guardian
Sat 27 February, 2021
The Australian government has acknowledged it previously underestimated the country’s greenhouse gas emissions and has increased the official estimate for every year on record.
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Morrison government deserves ‘zero credit’ for drop in Australia’s emissions, climate experts say
The New Daily
Sat 27 February, 2021
The Morrison government has been accused of taking credit for a dip in Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions, with climate scientists slamming the federal government for leaving the heavy lifting to states and territories.
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Australia accused of 'shamefully' holding back global action on climate change
The Guardian
Sat 27 February, 2021
Australia has been accused of “shamefully doing nothing” and weighing down global action after a UN analysis found national pledges to cut greenhouses gas emissions over the next decade have barely begun to do what is necessary to tackle the climate crisis.
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Green agenda ‘puts Labor in the bunker’, says Joel Fitzgibbon
The Australian
Sat 27 February, 2021
Joel Fitzgibbon, the renegade member for Hunter, says his goal is to eradicate ‘extreme progressives’ from the ALP.
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Victoria to ban single-use plastics including straws, cutlery and plates by 2023
ABC News
Sat 27 February, 2021
Victoria will ban certain single-use plastics by 2023 in a bid to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill, however the hospitality industry has warned consumers may face a hit to the hip pocket to accommodate the measures.
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News.com.auVictoria to ban single-use plastics including straws, cutlery
Perthnow
The Australian
Pedestrian
Victoria Will Ban Single-Use Plastics By 2023 Which Is Great News For Our Little Ocean Friends
7 News
Victoria to ban single-use plastic straws, stirrers, plates by 2023
SBS World News Australia
The Canberra Times
The Newcastle Herald
The West Australian
Yahoo News
The Herald Sun
Victoria to ban single-use straws, cutlery, polystyrene containers by 2023
The Age
Victoria to ban single-use plastics within two years
The Brisbane Times
The Sydney Morning Herald
WAToday
WA election changes the conversation on climate change
ABC News
Sat 27 February, 2021
On a packed, sun-drenched oval at the University of Western Australia's "O Day", thousands of boisterous first-year students wander excitedly from stall to stall, signing up for as much fun as possible.
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Zak Kirkup's vow to close coal-fired power stations slammed by Andrew Hastie ahead of WA poll
ABC News
Sat 27 February, 2021
A high-profile federal WA Liberal MP has described the state Liberal Party's green energy policy as a "lemon".
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World ‘walking blindfolded into a minefield’ due to climate inaction
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sat 27 February, 2021
The United Nations has issued a stark warning that new emissions reductions targets promised by world leaders in December are nowhere near enough to limit an increase in global warming to 1.5 degrees and meet the goals of the Paris agreement.
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Responding to bushfires in our peri-urban settlements
The Canberra Times
Sat 27 February, 2021
A year ago, bushfires raged in the south East of Australia and recently it was Perth's turn.
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What a warming Australia can learn from a frozen Texas
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sat 27 February, 2021
The same week that America landed a robot vehicle on Mars the power system in the state of Texas failed in a deep freeze, leaving four million people without power, 14 million boiling drinking water and 80 dead, including 11-year-old Cristian Pavón Pineda, believed to have frozen in his bed hours after his mother filmed him playing in the first snow he ever saw.
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ReneweconomyTexas was a warning. Australia needs to rethink the design of its electricity market
La Niña rain brings baby boom for critically endangered Booroolong frog
ABC News
Sat 27 February, 2021
Wetter weather over summer has led to a local baby boom for a critically endangered frog species in northern New South Wales.
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Changes spell end of dolphin ‘abuse-ment’ parks: MP
The Daily Telegraph
Sat 27 February, 2021
Animal welfare activists are hoping the government will now also support moves to retire Dolphin Marine Conservation Park’s three remaining dolphins.
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Remembering Tasmania’s underwater forests
ABC News
Sat 27 February, 2021
An ecosystem that once fizzed with life and supported a local industry has all but disappeared.
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Secrets to a clean, sustainable home
News.com.au
Sat 27 March, 2021
Aussies are snapping up sustainable home products in never-before-seen numbers in 2021, as our desire to protect the environment hits a pricing sweet spot.
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Bushfires in south-west WA impacted by global trend of drying Mediterranean climates
ABC News
Sat 27 February, 2021
In the wake of the recent Wooroloo bushfires in Western Australia, fire experts have warned a long-term reduction in rainfall in the state's south-west is making blazes there worse.
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Heavy rain and flood risk warning for Townsville, North Qld
News.com.au
Sat 27 February, 2021
Meteorologists are closely watching a low-pressure system stalking the North Queensland coast, having issued a flood warning with the potential for a tropical cyclone to “spin up quite rapidly”.
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Australia will pay the price for not joining the climate club
The Australian Financial Review
Fri 26 March, 2021
Australian trade partners are gearing up for a low-carbon economy, and with a new EU impost looming, our biggest exports could be left out in the cold.
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Geneva Association assembles multinational insurer task force
Insurance Business
Fri 26 February, 2021
The Geneva Association has established a new task force comprised of members of the P&C and life insurance industries to help develop climate risk assessment methodologies and tools.
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Two Victorian towns could go off grid under new network proposal
Reneweconomy
Fri 26 February, 2021
Two regional Victorian towns, Donald and Tarnagulla, are to take part in a trial with a local network operator that could see them become the biggest communities so far to cut ties with the grid and rely on local renewables and storage.
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Gippsland town volunteers for micro-grid trial to reduce dependence on main grid
Reneweconomy
Fri 26 February, 2021
The small town of Heyfield, 200km east of Melbourne, will be the guinea pig for a new micro-grid technology trial that will reduce its dependence on the main grid, and help it rely more on local renewable energy and battery storage technology,
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Renewable Energy Zones, network expansions, added to Infrastructure Priority List
Reneweconomy
Fri 26 February, 2021
New renewable energy zones and dispatchable energy storage infrastructure have been added to an influential government list of high priority infrastructure priorities, recognised for their importance in a post-Covid Australian economy.
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Male lyrebirds deceive females into mating by creating mobbing flock sound
Australian Geographic
Fri 26 February, 2021
We know lyrebirds are talented mimics, but now, scientists say they sometimes use those talents to deceive females.
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White spot prawn disease now endemic to wild populations in Queensland's Moreton Bay region
ABC News
Fri 26 February, 2021
White spot disease is now endemic in wild prawn populations in south-east Queensland's Moreton Bay region.
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Endangered animals on Kangaroo Island protected by new refuge
ABC News
Fri 26 February, 2021
A wildlife refuge to protect some of Australia's most endangered animals has opened on Kangaroo Island.
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Melting ocean mud helps prevent major earthquakes — and may show where quake risk is highest
The Conversation
Fri 26 February, 2021
The largest and most destructive earthquakes on the planet happen in places where two tectonic plates collide. In our new research, published today in Nature Communications, we have produced new models of where and how rocks melt in these collision zones in the deep Earth.
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Australian greenhouse gas emissions rebound as Covid-19 restrictions lifted
Reneweconomy
Fri 26 February, 2021
Australia’s emissions are showing early signs of returning to higher levels, as Covid-19 related travel restrictions and the impacts of drought both begin to lift, leading to a rise in emissions in the third quarter of 2020.