Category: Australasia

‘Plastiki’ bottle ship completes epic Pacific voyage

A boat crafted from thousands of plastic bottles sailed into Sydney Harbour on Monday, completing an epic trans-Pacific voyage

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Strong quake strikes off Tonga, Samoa

CANBERRA, Australia -- The U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 has struck the

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Australia PM offers ‘cash for clunkers’ climate policy

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard Saturday pledged 400 million dollars (360 million US) to take old cars off the

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Protester heckles Australian PM’s climate speech

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was heckled by rowdy protesters on Friday as she announced her new climate change

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Nobel climate scientist dead at 65

Nobel Prize-winning climate change researcher Stephen Schneider has died at the age of 65. The Stanford University scientist worked on

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Australia: Scientists to track locust plague from sky

The Australian Plague Locust Commission predicts locust eggs will begin hatching in north-west Victoria from late September, causing millions

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Australia: Water to get more scarce, more expensive

A new study says Australia's water supply problems are only going to get worse as the population soars towards

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Australia: Monckton blasts unconstitutional ETS

Visiting British climate change commentator Christopher Monckton has attacked the Federal Government's emissions trading scheme (ETS), arguing part of

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Wild Storm leaves 8000 Australian homes without power

A WILD storm in southeast Queensland on Friday afternoon has left more than 8,000 homes without power. The hardest

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Scientists ‘losing climate fight’

A leading Australian climate change scientist says experts are losing the fight against sceptics, who are distorting the science

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