8 more environment related articles form today: (are you keeping up?? ;-) ) Guardian: Great Barrier Reef contaminated by toxic coal dust, inquiry told Coral reef expert says damning report found coal dust had spread hundreds of kilometres from dredging sites theguardian/environment/2014/jul/23/great-barrier-reef-contaminated-by-toxic-coal-dust-inquiry-told New Matilda: Sick Country: Poisoning Garawa With Mining And Politics For the past two decades Redbank Mine has been leaking insidious copper sulphide into the waterways of the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, slowly poisoning Garawa country. The contamination is so bad that you can even see the strangely beautiful bluey-green of the toxic waterways from space. https://newmatilda/2014/07/23/sick-country-poisoning-garawa-mining-and-politics Another 589 scientists speak out against Abbott’s war on the environment conservationbytes/2014/07/22/another-589-scientists-speak-out-against-abbotts-war-on-the-environment/ SMH: PM wrong to scrap carbon tax: scientists World leaders in tropical conservation science say Prime Minister Tony Abbott shouldnt have scrapped the carbon tax and his direct action plan wont work. Almost 600 scientists and environmentalists from the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation have penned a statement urging Australia to reinstate an emissions trading scheme. news.smh.au/breaking-news-national/pm-wrong-to-scrap-carbon-tax-scientists-20140723-3cep2.html ABC: RN Bush Telegraph - How should Australias rangelands be managed? Australias rangelands cover 80 per cent of the country. [..]They are Australias largest areas of wilderness and preserve diversity like no other savannah and arid zone in the world. [..]Ecologist worry that with disappearance of the rangelands custodians there will be an explosion in invasive animal and plant species. The director, Pew Trusts, Outback Australia, Barry Traill says much of the rangeland is actually wilderness but it needs people to be maintained. abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bushtelegraph/rangeland-decline/5616316 Trust for Nature: Bush Blitz report released - 21 species new to science found at Neds Corner Station nedscorner.au/documents/bb-NedsCorner-VIC-report-2011.pdf In The Conversation (yesterday): Renewable energy is ready to supply all of Australias electricity By Mark Diesendorf Moving to 100% renewable electricity is safe, technically feasible and affordable. It can cut greenhouse gas and other emissions and land degradation, while creating local jobs and energy security. It is ready to go! tinyurl/q3ulseg The challenge of sorting fact from fiction on coal seam gas CSIRO’s aim is to inform the community, government and industry about the risks and opportunities that stem from developing Australia’s unconventional gas resources. It is a complex issue, and a divisive one. There are things we know, and there are things we don’t. So what would you like to know? tinyurl/nps7lzg
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 12:22:47 +0000
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