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Australia stocks seesaw, with gold, oil shares weak
2015-07-20 05:10:54| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Australian stocks waded into and out of shallow losses early Monday, with resource shares mostly weak but with banks pivoting off a lower open to grab some modest gains. About 45 minutes into the session, the S&P/ASX 200 was little changed from its previous close, sitting at 5,670.40 after registering a small drop shortly after the open.
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Australia Continues Oil-Spill Search Near Great Barrier Reef
2015-07-19 03:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Maritime authorities will continue searching an area near Australias Great Barrier Reef where patches of oily water have been detected, after an aircraft Saturday failed to locate any material trace of oil. Shoreline searches are being conducted and a helicopter will fly over the area south of Townsville looking for a possible spill, Queenslands Department of Transport and Main Roads said Saturday in an e-mailed statement. While samples of the sheen have been taken for analysis, no on-water...
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Australia on alert for potential oil spill off Great Barrier Reef
2015-07-19 03:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australian authorities remain on alert for a potential oil spill in waters around the Great Barrier Reef despite finding little sign of a reported kilometre-long slick off the north Queensland coast. Maritime safety authorities in Queensland confirmed that small patches of oily water were seen in waters south of Townsville where a fisherman had earlier reported seeing a slick close to 1km long. Aircraft from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority will renew the search for evidence of the oil...
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Australia tops world for climate change denial: study
2015-07-17 07:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Nearly one in five Australians do not believe in climate change, making the country the worst in the world for climate sceptics, a study of almost 20,000 people has found. The research by the University of Tasmania found 17 per cent of Australians thought climate change was not real, compared with 15 per cent of people in Norway, 13 per cent of New Zealanders and 12 per cent of Americans. The study, published in the journal Global Environmental Change, was based on data collected as part of...
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Australia: NSW Farmers change climate change policy
2015-07-16 05:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: NSW Farmers has shifted its policy to recognise the impact of climate change on agriculture and urged politicians to act. Mullaley farmer Angela Martin, a former NSW Farmers board member, said the change sends a clear signal to governments that climate change is an issue farmers deal with every day. "Primary producers are on the front lines of seasonal variability, rising temperatures and more extreme weather, exacerbated by a changing climate," she said on the final day of the NSW Farmers conference...
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