Darkest day
Multimedia: More than 170 have perished after devastating bushfires roared across Victoria in Australia's worst natural disaster.
Thursday February 12, 2009
Pollution fall a bright side to crisis
THE international economic downturn may result in a short-term benefit with a decrease in production leading to a slowing in the growth of greenhouse pollution, one of the Federal Government's top advisers has forecast.
Bulldozing wetland costs farmer $400,000
A FARMER has been fined more than $400,000 for bulldozing a wetland near Moree that was a breeding ground for rare birds.
Monday February 9, 2009
Gillard urges speed
THE Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has urged insurance companies to respond quickly and sympathetically when they receive claims from bushfire victims.
Saturday February 7, 2009
Whaling ship hits Shepherd
A JAPANESE whaling ship and the Sea Shepherd vessel Steve Irwin have collided in the Antarctic dispute over whaling, before the whalers were able to take three minke whales aboard.
Global Warming
Records smashed
THE heatwave that accompanied the bushfires on Saturday smashed records, as much of Victoria, including Melbourne and 20 other centres, registered unprecedented highs, the Bureau of Meteorology says.
- Climate change:: Scientists warned us this was going to happen
- Bushfire ferocity 'linked to climate change'
- It will only get worse as climate changes
- Scorching temperatures may be climate change related
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Whale Watch
'Hundreds' of dolphins beached in Philippines
More than 200 dolphins have beached themselves on Manila Bay, officials in the Philippines said on Tuesday as they tried to work out why the marine mammals had come ashore.
- Protest ship rams whaler
- Whalers get a kill past Sea Shepherd
- There she blows
- We won't halt our scientific whaling: Japanese
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Conservation
Koala stranded in cyberspace
Queensland's most famous koala is temporarily without a home on the internet.
- Koala 'clicks' as thousands join web push
- Koala makes friends on Facebook
- Creationists tell Attenborough to 'burn in hell'
- Endangered species found at logging site
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Water Issues
Ellie's fury leaves Queensland awash
PARTS of North Queensland remain isolated as floodwaters cover two-thirds of the state in the wake of Cyclone Ellie.
- Rudd offers sympathy to flood victims
- '114.3 per cent' of Queensland weather-beaten
- Indian Ocean is drought culprit
- Forecasts good news for farmers
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Energy Smart
Energy savings that hit home
The slightest changes to the way we live can make a difference to the environment, writes Peter Garrett.
- A novel idea: curl up in bed with a virtual book
- 'Day of horror' when insulation is made free
- Insulating against recession: how it will work
- Money to 'green up' homes
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Devastation in Victoria
Bushfires kill dozens in south-east Australia as hundreds of properties destroyed.
hOpinions
Bright sparks light way
There are solutions to climate change, writes Greg Hunt.
- Phillip Coorey: Nats against reducing emissions
- Steve Jacobs: Cruel deceit in quest for ET
- Bidda Jones: Hooked on killing
- Russell Paul La Valle: Don't monkey with human rights
- Paola Totaro: Desalination creates no waves
- Simon Webster: Love in a green climate
- Alison Bashford: Population lost in global debate
- Colin Power: Hands off coal subsidies
- Michael Duffy: Always look on bright side
- Miranda Devine: Ban on bags can't carry weight
- Paul Watson: Hi-ho, me hearties
- Paul Sheehan: Japan must stop taking the minke
- Simon Webster: Animals are people too
