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"Bloody crazy": River near fracking site bursts into flames in Australia
2016-04-23 17:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Kabylie: A GREENS politician has set the Condamine River in Queensland on fire in a coal seam gas protest. 'I was shocked by force of the explosion when I tested whether gas boiling through the Condamine River, Qld was flammable, ' Mr Buckingham posted on Facebook. "This river for kilometres is bubbling with gas and now it's on fire", he said. A video has been released showing huge flames erupting from methane gas on the surface of the Condamine River in Queensland, Australia. "So much gas is bubbling...
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Australia: 'Walking in the other direction': Malcolm Turnbull's broad retreat on climate
2016-04-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Morning Herald: When Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull rose to address the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris late last year, he told the world Australia would meet the challenges of global warming "with confidence and optimism". Australia's carbon emissions target - slicing 2000 levels by about 19 per cent by 2030 - would halve pollution on a per capita basis, "one of the biggest reductions" of any G20 nation, Turnbull said. The government would also double "clean energy innovation" investment...
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Australia has signed the Paris climate change agreement
2016-04-23 09:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Comment: As stated, the Paris Climate Agreement will enter into force once 55 countries representing at least 55 percent of global emissions have signed it. The leaders must now go back to their home countries' governments to ratify and approve the agreement, which could take months or years. "These are some of the highest targets anywhere in the world and certainly on a per capita basis we're right at the top", he told the ABC from NY on Saturday. "The Paris Agreement is a strong affirmation that diplomacy...
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Wool Prices in Australia (Weekly Report)
2016-04-22 19:07:34| EmergingTextiles.com
Wool prices have further declined in A$ terms in Australia, due to a new increase of the Aussie currency. Our report delivers a comprehensive view of wool prices in Australia, with a long list of micron types in A$, US$ and euro terms. Historical charts are also available, such as downloadable historical data. Links to weekly market reports in New Zealand and South African are provided.
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Coral bleaching spreads from Great Barrier Reef to Western Australia
2016-04-22 04:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The global coral bleaching event devastating the Great Barrier Reef has spread to reefs in Western Australia, where the federal government halted the implementation of marine parks, which would help the reefs recover. Related: Mourning Loomis Reef - the heart of the Great Barrier Reef's coral bleaching disaster In light of worsening bleaching, the Greens have called on the government to urgently implement the marine reserves, which were created in 2012, but were effectively abandoned by the...
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