Despite record heat and drought Australia's emissions and coal exports are soaring, says a new report, and both are increasing as a matter of government policy. But a homegrown climate action movement is putting a spanner in the works - and just stopped its first coal train.
… Train crash - Australia 'heading backwards' on emissions … Oliver Tickell | 19th December 2014 News Australia Coal Fossil Fuel Politics Climate … Despite record heat and drought Australia's emissions and coal exports are …
Australia's nuclear industry has a shameful history of 'radioactive racism' that dates from the British bomb tests in the 1950s, writes Jim Green. The same attitudes persist today with plans to dump over half a million tonnes of high and intermediate level nuclear waste on Aboriginal land, and open new uranium mines. But now Aboriginal peoples and traditional land owners are fighting back!
… Radioactive waste and the nuclear war on Australia's Aboriginal people Jim Green | 1st July 2016 News Australia Waste Pollution Nuclear Politics WMD Indigenous Peoples kylie sambo-cut.jpg Australia's nuclear industry has a shameful …
A new WWF report puts eastern Australia among the world's deforestation hotspots, write Martine Maron & Bill Laurance - estimating that 3-6 million hectares of native forest will be cleared there over the next 15 years. Queensland's new Labor government could reverse the destructive policies - but will it turn a new leaf?
… Why is Australia topping WWF's world deforestation … Maron Bill Laurance | 30th April 2015 Comment Australia Forests Farming … bush_fire_at_captain_creek_central_queensland_australia-cut.jpg A new WWF report puts …
To tackle its serious air pollution, China is imposing stringent restrictions on dirty coal high in ash or sulphur, writes Shabbir Ahmad. One result: half of Australia's coal exports to China face exclusion, or extra 'washing' costs. But Australia's response is not to raise environmental quality. Instead, it's increasing production.
… China's war on pollution could leave Australia's dirty coal out in the cold Shabbir … September 2014 News China Coal Fossil Fuels Australia Pollution Mining australian-coal-mine-cut.jpg To tackle its …
After rabbits, foxes, brambles and the cane toad, you would have thought Australia would have had enough of invasive exotic species, writes Jane Wright. Wrong! CSIRO scientists are introducing a French dung beetle, in the hope it will lead to fewer flies, improved soil fertility and structure, and greater carbon sequestration.
… Australia - exotic beetles fly in to clean up … dung Jane Wright | 5th October 2014 Comment Australia Farming Carbon Ecology … and the cane toad, you would have thought Australia would have had enough of invasive …
Australia's prime minister thinks climate change is 'crap' and has just abolished his country's carbon-pricing system. But scientists say that it's rising levels of CO2 that are leaving the south of the country parched and sweltering - and it's only going to get worse.
… Australia's drought - yes, it's climate change … July 2014 News Climate Change Water Oceans Australia Antarctica … Australia's prime minister thinks climate … scientists have just confirmed that parts of Australia are being slowly parched because of …
Australia's deliberate and calculated attacks on its indigenous population carry many of the hallmarks of genocide, writes John Pilger. And things are getting worse, not better, as states that have grown rich by exploiting Aboriginal land evict and demolish remote Aboriginal communities.
… Forced evictions are Australia's latest racist assault on … People John Pilger | 28th April 2015 News Australia Indigenous Peoples Human Rights aborigine-didgeridoo-cut.jpg Australia's deliberate and calculated attacks …
BP's plans to explore for oil in the deep seas of the Great Australian Bight came under fire today at the company's Annual General Meeting in London, writes Graham Readfearn. The drilling would risk the ocean's rich marine wildlife - while blowing a massive hole in Australia's COP21 emissions targets.
… BP's deep sea oil exploration in South Australia - no way! Graham Readfearn DeSmog.uk … explore for oil in the deep seas of the Great Australian Bight came under fire today at the … wildlife - while blowing a massive hole in Australia's COP21 emissions targets. …
Australia has been growing rich from exporting coal to China. But as Kieran Cooke reports, China's renewable energy revolution may soon bring the 'good times' to an end.
… Australia facing slump as China 'goes green' Kieran Cooke | 24th December 2013 News Australia Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Energy Coal coal-train-australia.png Australia has been growing rich …
For most Australians, 26th January is a day of family celebration, writes John Pilger. But for its indigenous peoples the only thing to celebrate is their survival after over two centuries of rape, murder, theft and vicious racism that continues to this day, and has even found new expression in Australia's war on refugees, incarcerated in barbaric Pacific Island concentration camps.
… What's to celebrate on Australia's 'apartheid day' of national shame? … John Pilger | 25th January 2016 Activism Australia Indigenous Peoples Society aborigines-cut.jpg For most Australians, 26th January is a day of family …
In 1975 Indonesia invaded the small Pacific country of East Timor, writes John Pilger, and then massacred a third of its population to suppress demands for independence. Now unearthed documents show the genocide was supported by Australia so it could grab the oil and gas reserves of the Timor Sea. Despite East Timor's independence, won in 1999, Australia is still stealing its oil and gas revenues worth $5 billion and counting.
… Australia's complicity in the East Timor … John Pilger | 31st March 2016 News East Timor Australia Indonesia USA Pacific Oil Law Human … documents show the genocide was supported by Australia so it could grab the oil and gas …
Australian meteorologists have published an up-to-date summary of how rainfall and temperature levels have changed across the country over the past 100 years
… Australia getting warmer springs and uneven … | 14th March 2010 News Climate Change Australia Global Warming australiamap.jpg Australian meteorologists …
Australian governments have long waged a one-sided war on the continent's Aboriginal peoples, writes John Pilger. And now a new weapon has come into play: the starvation of the most remote, culturally intact communities. It's all part of a multi-faceted program of physical and cultural annihilation. And yet the world is silent.
… Starvation in Australia: Utopia's dirty secret John Pilger | 12th April 2016 Comment Australia Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Food Politics Genocide utopia.jpg Australian governments have long waged a …
Australia must acknowledge the horrors lurking in its own history, writes Fiona Broom, and admit to its continuing Aboriginal genocide. It's made harder by the deliberate ignorance of Australia's mainstream culture, politics and media. But with John Pilger's outstanding film, 'Utopia', the excuses are fast running out.
… Utopia - breaking the Great Australian Silence Fiona Broom | 8th January 2015 Reviews Indigenous Peoples Australia Politics Media Film arnhem-land-cut.jpg Australia must acknowledge the horrors lurking …
Australia's aboriginal communities inhabit remote Outback regions of enormous importance for wildlife conservation, write Craig Moritz, Emilie-Jane Ens & Jon Altman - and they, and the land management services they provide, are essential to maintain both biodiversity and ancient indigenous knowledge. So why is Prime Minister Tony Abbott putting all that at risk?
… Ens Jon Altman | 23rd March 2015 Comment Australia Indigenous Peoples Conservation rangers-1-cut.jpg Australia's aboriginal communities inhabit … management of large areas of remote Australia has been overlooked. There are 1,200 …
Natural disasters like flood and drought have cost the Australian government more than A$12 billion since 2009, write Tayanah O'Donnel & Josephine Mummery, with even harsher weather events predicted for coming decades. Clearly, it's just the time for Australia to eliminate funding for research on adapting to climate change.
… Australia axes climate change adaptation … May 2017 News Climate Change Politics Finance Australia Adaptation queensland-flood-cut.jpg … like flood and drought have cost the Australian government more than A$12 billion …
New figures show that three quarters of the sharks caught by Western Australia's shark baiting were undersize. All the more reason to halt the program, writes Elizabeth Claire Alberts - and to end similar programs elsewhere in Australia
… Australia's shark baiting - cruel, dangerous, … quarters of the sharks caught by Western Australia's shark baiting were undersize. All … - and to end similar programs elsewhere in Australia To say that people are angry about …
Rising greenhouse gas levels are causing stronger winds over the Southern Ocean. It's good news for Antarctica, writes Tim Radford, as the circumpolar winds are keeping its ice caps cold. But Australia is getting hotter and drier - and its problems will only increase.
… Strong winds keep Antarctica cold - while Australia bakes Tim Radford | 16th May 2014 News Australia Antarctica Climate Change drought-south-australia-cut.jpg Rising greenhouse gas levels …
Australian Greens' Leader Richard Di Natale has called for the prospect of a Trump Presidency and a post-Brexit Britain to be the chance to break old alliances and forge new deals to save the planet. MAXINE NEWLANDS reports
… Australian Greens ready to challenge old … Maxine Newlands | 30th November 2016 News Australia Donald Trump Brexit Climate Change … leader at aiia -newlands [cropped 2].jpg Australian Greens' Leader Richard Di Natale …
The Fukushima disaster was fuelled by Australian uranium but lessons were not learned and the industry continues to fuel global nuclear insecurity with irresponsible uranium export policies.
… Australian uranium fuelled Fukushima Dr Jim … The Fukushima disaster was fuelled by Australian uranium but lessons were not … was an avoidable disaster, fuelled by Australian uranium and the hubris and … Japan have largely escaped scrutiny or blame. Australia's uranium industry is a case in …
Australia is betting the farm on huge increases in coal exports, writes Stephen Bygrave - just as key markets in China, India, Korea and Japan are drying up, with rising tariffs and huge renewable energy and efficiency programs. The policy is totally out of touch with reality - and will lead to revenue shortfalls in the AU$100 billions.
… Wake up Australia! Your coal exports are being left … Stephen Bygrave | 30th November 2014 Comment Australia Coal Climate Change Energy Fossil Fuels Finance coal-mine-australia-cut.jpg Australia is betting the …
Knitting Nannas Against Gas (KNAG), an anti-fracking group held their national gathering in the heart of Australia's Coal Seam Gas (CSG) industry where the ‘Nannas' workshopped ways of evading arrest, media strategies, avoiding defaming energy companies, lawful protest, successful campaigns, protest songs and nanna naps. MAXINE NEWLANDS joined them for the gathering
… Nannalution Gathers Pace: Australia's Knitting Nannas Activists and the … Fracking Activism Craftivism Knitting Gas Oil Australia Environment knag action at a … held their national gathering in the heart of Australia's Coal Seam Gas (CSG) industry where …
Australia's Aboriginal people have long been mistreated by governments and industry in the pursuit of nuclear projects. The attitudes of 'pro-nuclear environmentalists' or 'ecomodernists' towards Aboriginal people is as disrespectful as those of governments and industry, argues JIM GREEN.
… Aboriginal First Nations and Australia's 'pro-nuclear environmentalists' … Uranium Adnyamathanha-Traditional-Owners Australia's Aboriginal people have long been … argues JIM GREEN. The plan to turn South Australia (SA) into the world's nuclear waste …
Australia's nuclear industry has a shameful history of 'radioactive racism' that dates from the British bomb tests in the 1950s, writes Jim Green. The same attitudes have been evident in recent debates over uranium mines and nuclear waste, but Aboriginal peoples are fighting back!
… The nuclear war against Australia's Aboriginal people Jim Green | 14th July 2014 News Australia Nuclear Mining WMD Indigenous … gladys brown and elaine peckham-cut.jpg Australia's nuclear industry has a shameful …