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Environment News tagged with Australia

Oil Spill Off Australian Coast Poses Major Threat to Marine Life
Environment  (tags: Oil, risk, Timor Sea, Australia, science, environment, threat, marine life )

Sophie
- 30 days ago - independent.co.uk
Sea birds are dying and thousands of marine creatures are at risk from a massive oil spill in the Timor Sea, off north-west Australia, warn the first scientists to survey the isolated site.
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Whale Activist Captain Paul Watson Sea Shepherd Hits Visa Hurdle
Environment  (tags: Sea Shepherd, paul watson, australia, japan )

Claudia
- 50 days ago - brisbanetimes.com.au
Until now, authorities had let Captain Watson, who holds a US passport, come and go from his Australian-based ship on a tourist visa.
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Oil Rig Spilling 400 Barrels a Day
Environment  (tags: environment, oil spill, disaster, destruction, Australia, pollution, nature, wildlife, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 71 days ago - theaustralian.news.com.au
THE oil leaking from a stricken rig off Western Australia has emerged as the nation's third-biggest spill after the company responsible for the disaster admitted up to 400 barrels a day had flowed into the sea for more than three weeks.
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Australian Parliament OKs 20% By 2020 Renewable Energy Target
Environment  (tags: environment, renewable energy, Australia, habitat, nature, protection )

Cher
- 95 days ago - redgreenandblue.org
The Australian government's ruling coalition has come to terms on an agreement that would quadruple the renewable energy target set by the previous government in 2001 and is in line with the renewables target set by the European Union in 2008.
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Help Protect Australia's Big Blue Backyard PLEASE SIGN
Environment  (tags: conservation, protection, australia, wildlife )

Claudia
- 104 days ago - amcs.org.au
Less than 1% of our South West oceans are protected despite being home to some of the most spectacular, unique and vulnerable marine life on earth. They need our help.
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Renewable Energy Wave Rolls Across Australia
Environment  (tags: environment, energy, Australia, habitat, protection )

Cher
- 156 days ago - panda.org
Waves around Australia and hot rocks beneath it have the capacity to power Australia into a clean energy future and provide tens of thousands of new jobs, according to new reports from WWF. "What we are seeing here is the birth of new industries,"
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Halt the Salt ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, salt mine, Australia, nature, protection, habitat, wildlife )

Cher
- 169 days ago - change.org
The Australian Marine Conservation Society has deep concerns about a salt mine proposed for our precious Western Australian coast. We need your help now to stop this unsustainable project going any further.
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Human Sign Calls for Federal Government Action on Climate Change - Australia
Environment  (tags: australia, prime minister, kevin rudd, climate change, melbourne, victoria, solar energy, solar power plants )

Chrissy
- 190 days ago - news.com.au
THE words of an 11-year-old Melbourne schoolgirl have been transformed into a giant human sign calling for Government action on climate change, as Kevin Rudd spruiks a $1.4 billion investment in solar energy. The catch-cry "Climate change - our future is
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Halt the Salt. ACTION ALERT..AUSTRALIA.
Environment  (tags: conservation, destruction, Australia, animals, endangered, government, habitatdestruction, nature, pollution, protection, science, Sustainabililty, wildlife, research )

Cheryl
- 219 days ago - haltthesalt.org.au
Exmouth Gulf - one of Western Australia's most environmentally important areas - is under potential threat from a plan to build one of the world's biggest salt mines.
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Sydney First Major City to Mark Earth Hour 2009
Environment  (tags: climate-change, CO2emissions, Australia, energy, globalwarming, greenhousegases, world )

Cheryl
- 240 days ago - news.yahoo.com
SYDNEY - The floodlit cream shells of the famed Opera House dimmed Saturday as Sydney became the world's first major city to plunge itself into darkness.
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Australian Beaches a 'Disaster Zone' After Toxic Spill
Environment  (tags: oil spill, toxic, Australia, environment, destruction, pollution, habitat, nature, wildlife )

Cher
- 255 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Authorities in Australia declared dozens of popular tourist beaches on the northeast coast as disaster zones Friday, their once-pristine sands now fouled by a massive oil and chemical slick.
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Lake Eyre Filling Up for the First Time in 10 Years - Wildlife Spectacle
Environment  (tags: Lake Eyre, flood waters, Australia, environment, protection, habitat, nature )

Cher
- 266 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
See One of Australia's Most Spectacular Sights As Floodwaters Breathe Life into South Australia's Dry Lake Eyre.
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Task Force Named to Probe Vic Bushfires .
Environment  (tags: climate, destruction, crime, humans, nature, Australia, suffering, world, death, sadness )

Cheryl
- 287 days ago - au.news.yahoo.com
AUSTRALIA. Firebugs "Mass Murderers". Victorian police have announced a task force to investigate the state's deadly bushfires and say they are confident of making arrests.
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Weather Extremes: NSW Melts, Victoria Burns, Queensland Sinks |
Environment  (tags: animals, climate, ClimateChange, Australia, conservation, globalwarming, wildlife )

Cheryl
- 291 days ago - news.com.au
PARTS of Australia will be hotter than the African plains or Middle Eastern deserts this weekend, while other parts battle raging bushfires and still others cope with widespread flooding.
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Poacher Japan Seeks Ban on Whale Protesters
Environment  (tags: sea shepherd, re fuel, poacher japan, japanese whaling, whales, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, pirates of compassion, vs, pirates of greed )

In A Mirr
- 321 days ago - english.aljazeera.net
Poacher Japan has accused the conservation group Sea Shepherd and the crew of its ship, the Steve Irwin, of acting "like pirates" and plans to ask Australia and possibly New Zealand and Chile to ban an anti-whaling ship from using their ports.
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