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: Almost Half of Australia Untouched by Humans: Study
Reuters: More than 40 percent of Australia, an area the size of India, remains untouched by humans, making the country as critical to the world's environment as the Amazon rainforests, a study said on Wednesday. Australia has some of the last great wilderness, with three million square kilometres (1.1 million square miles) largely unchanged by industrial civilisation, a report for international conservation watchdogs the Pew Environment Group and Nature Conservancy said. "It's rare on ...
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: Inquiry into Murray water crisis
Canberra Times: The Senate will hold an urgent inquiry into the immediate availability of water for the Murray River, the Coorong and lower lakes in South Australia. Greens leader Bob Brown said he believed the inquiry would be better able to determine water storages than the independent audit of the Murray-Darling Basin promised two weeks ago by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. The motion was moved by new Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young and supported by the Government, the Opposition and South ...
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Australia: Australian wilderness disappearing fast
Advertiser: A STUDY has identified 40 per cent of Australia - three million square kilometres - as the largest intact wilderness on Earth that ranks in quality with the Amazon forest, Antarctica and the Sahara. Fairfax newspapers report that the Wild Australia Program Study will be made public today and, was made by international conservation organisations Pew Environment Group and Nature Conservancy, which scanned the world for the last great wilderness areas. "Few Australians realise the ...
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Australia: Dam busters: governments ready to buy land to unlock water
Australian: TOORALE station in northwestern NSW is expected to be purchased by Canberra in partnership with NSW for an estimated $25 million, in response to mounting pressure on the Rudd Government to respond more quickly to the water crisis in the Murray-Darling Basin. Dams across the Warrego River on the 92,000ha cotton and grazing operation would be removed to boost flows from Queensland to the basin by up to 90 gigalitres a year. Government sources said federal Water Minister Penny ...
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Poor nations need $130 bln a year on climate-WWF
Reuters: Rich nations will need to provide about $130 billion a year by 2030 to help developing countries cope with climate change, or about five times current flows, the WWF conservation group said on Wednesday. A WWF study showed that there were 16 funds, run by U.N. agencies, the World Bank and others, channelling money to poor nations to help them curb rising greenhouse gases and adapt to effects of warming such as droughts, floods and rising seas. But a big worry was that Africa, ...
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