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Offshore Oil Well Leaked for Months, Public Kept in Dark for a Year

Offshore Oil Well Leaked for Months, Public Kept in Dark for a Year

Australia’s oil regulator is refusing to disclose the location and the company behind a 10,500 liter leak of petroleum into the ocean last year. An Australian offshore oil and gas well leaked continuously into surrounding waters for two months in 2016 but information about the discharge was only released this week in the National Offshore […]

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    It’s Official: Donald Trump Is a ‘Revolting Slug, Unfit for Public Office,’ Says NSW Parliament

    It’s Official: Donald Trump Is a ‘Revolting Slug, Unfit for Public Office,’ Says NSW Parliament

    The upper house of the New South Wales state parliament in Australia is condemning Donald Trump‘s run for president of the United States calling him a “revolting slug” unfit for public office. On Thursday, Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham introduced a motion slamming Trump’s hateful comments about women and minorities, including the remarks revealed last weekend […]

    BP Abandons Drilling in the Great Australian Bight

    BP Abandons Drilling in the Great Australian Bight

    By Andy Rowell Conservationists and environmentalists in Australia are celebrating a major victory after the oil giant BP announced that it is abandoning its hugely controversial plans to drill for oil and gas in the Great Australian Bight. The area, which is off the country’s southern coast, is a marine park and home to one […]

    World’s First Farm to Use Solar Power and Seawater Opens in Australia

    World’s First Farm to Use Solar Power and Seawater Opens in Australia

    Sundrop Farms, a tomato production facility that is the first agricultural system of its kind in the world, celebrated its grand opening in Port Augusta, South Australia, Thursday. Instead of soil, pesticides, fossil fuels and groundwater, Sundrop Farms uses only solar power and desalinated seawater to grow tomatoes across 49 acres. The water is pumped […]

    Victoria Becomes First Australian State to Ban Fracking

    Victoria Becomes First Australian State to Ban Fracking

    The state of Victoria in Australia has voted to ban fracking on its territory, further cementing the moratorium first put in place in 2012. It is the first Australian state to impose such a ban. Australia’s indigenous flag is raised in protest to fracking on aboriginal land. Damian Kelly Photography Premier Daniel Andrews announced Tuesday. […]

    World’s First ‘Tesla Town’ Coming to Australia

    World’s First ‘Tesla Town’ Coming to Australia

    Plans for the world’s first “Tesla town” are underway. YarraBend, a suburb-to-be located just outside of Melbourne’s city center, is under development by local property group Glenvill. The world’s first “Tesla town” is coming to Melbourne, Australia. Glenvill The developers have already put the first 60 homes on the market. The eco-friendly abodes will have […]

    Australia’s Other Great Reef Wiped Out by Super-Warm Seas

    Australia’s Other Great Reef Wiped Out by Super-Warm Seas

    Another of Australia’s treasured coastal ecosystems, the kelp-dominated Great Southern Reef, experienced a massive die-off from 2010-2013 due to a marine heat wave. Before and after the 2011 heat wave which saw the virtual extinction of some of Western Australia’s vast temperate kelp forest ecosystems.J. Costa According to a study in the journal Science, 90 […]

    Scientists Confirm Burning Fossil Fuels Significantly Worsens Australian Drought

    Scientists Confirm Burning Fossil Fuels Significantly Worsens Australian Drought

    American scientists have just confirmed that parts of Australia are being slowly parched because of greenhouse gas emissions, which means that the long-term decline in rainfall over south and south-west Australia is a consequence of fossil fuel burning and depletion of the ozone layer by human activity. Southern Australia has been experiencing declining rainfall since […]

    Global Energy Markets Reach Tipping Point Giving Renewables an Edge

    Global Energy Markets Reach Tipping Point Giving Renewables an Edge

    Global energy markets are reaching a tipping point. A pathway has opened for climate progress, but only if governments, business and public recognize and exploit the opportunity. For the first time, a large fraction of the world’s fossil fuels could be replaced at a lower cost by clean energy, with today’s renewable technologies and prices. […]