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Is Australia falling out of love with solar power?
2014-02-05 21:24:46| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Is Australia's love affair with solar power losing its heat?
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Australia: Drought-stricken Queensland town considers evacuating 3,000 residents
2014-02-05 02:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: After two years with almost no rain, a Queensland town is planning for the possible evacuation of its entire population as water supplies run out. The mayor of the inland community of Cloncurry, near Mount Isa, says evacuating its 3,000 residents will be a last resort. But that option is part of an emergency plan now being developed in response to dwindling water supplies. Mayor Andrew Daniels says residents are now on the toughest water restrictions, with domestic use restricted to the bare...
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Australia: UN body calls Tasmania forest U-turn 'exceptional'
2014-02-04 21:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia's move to strip part of Tasmania's forest of its world heritage status one year after it was added is "very exceptional", the UN has told the Guardian, adding its experts could not recall such a case in recent years. A Unesco spokeswoman said changes to world heritage sites were not uncommon. But, to the agency's knowledge, the appeal to remove an area so soon after a national government had asked for its addition was unprecedented. "It is highly unusual that a boundary change entail...
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Australia: Farmers feel the heat as drought advances
2014-02-04 14:40:04| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: "The burning heat has just scorched everything off right back to the ground and then these hot winds have just blown it all away": Rod Barnes. Photo: Paul Mathews Sydney has recorded its lowest summer rainfall to date in more than 70 years, as the state swelters through its driest January in more than a decade. Since December, the city has had just 48.4 millimetres of rain, a little more than a quarter of the usual amount, and the lowest since 1941-42, said Acacia Pepler, a climatologist at the...
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Australia: National capital energised about climate change
2014-02-04 13:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canberra Times: Extended heatwaves have emerged yet again to subject large swathes of south-eastern Australia to relentless extreme heat and very low rainfall. The country is parched, crops, trees and communities wilting under the baking conditions and electricity demand pushing power networks to the brink. In Canberra, emergency services have activated extreme heat event plans, and fire services have been placed on high alert. I have no doubt this is a foretaste of what a warming climate means for our city and...
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