Vic Govt releases EES for proposed desal plant The Victorian Government has released the Environmental Effects Statement (EES) for the planned desalination plant near Wonthaggi.

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Scientists urge careful approach to northern rivers development Scientists are warning there must be a careful and thorough approach to development near Australia's northern rivers to avoid another Murray-Darling crisis.

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Pool rules toughened for SA homes From next month, South Australians will have to make sure their backyard swimming pools or spas meet safety standards before a house can be sold.

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Concerns over wedge-tailed eagle numbers There are growing concerns the nesting sites of Tasmania's endangered wedged-tailed eagle are no longer being monitored.

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Blocking Goulburn's pipeline 'disastrous' The Mayor of Goulburn, Paul Stephenson, says three councillors are 'messing around' with the future of the area by stalling the development of a water pipeline.

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Scuffles over stripping of Trust There have been scuffles outside a briefing about the sacking of a water authority at Mildura.

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Investigation launched into Thredbo River diesel spill An investigation is underway into a pollution spill in a sensitive Snowy Mountains waterway.

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Fluorescent light bulb disposal Canberrans will soon be able to dispose of fluorescent tubes and energy efficient light bulbs at the Mugga Lane and Mitchell waste depots.

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No sign of stranded whale calf Marine experts are searching beaches in Tasmania's south to make sure a stranded whale calf helped from the area yesterday afternoon has not returned.

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SA's job to save lower Murray: Flannery A former Australian of the Year says the future of the Coorong and lower lakes rests squarely with South Australians.

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'Grown' blood promises endless supply HUMAN blood has been grown in the laboratory for the first time in research that promises an almost limitless transfusion supply.

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Sun shines for inspired 'green geek' NICOLE Kuepper has not changed the world. At least not yet. But her progress proved sufficient to win her this year's Eureka Prize for Young Leaders in Environmental Issues as well as the people's choice award.

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Whale calf likely to be put down WILDLIFE carers hope to find a mother for a whale calf abandoned in Sydney waters, but euthanasia appears to be its probable fate.

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Figures hard-wired into us NEW evidence that basic mathematics is innate to the human brain could challenge the primacy of language in teaching young children maths.

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Abandoned baby whale weakens A WHALE calf that turned to a yacht for maternal care in Sydney's waterways after being abandoned by its mother will be lucky to survive the week -- unless it finds a more likely guardian. Wildlife officers have grave fears for the young humpback's survival after watching it grow weaker yesterday.

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Maths hard-wired into us, study finds BASIC mathematical ability appears to be innate, or hard-wired into the brain, according to a study of outback Aboriginal children.

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Survivors of 1918 flu still protected ALMOST a century after the lethal 1918 flu pandemic, survivors' bloodstreams still carry super-potent protection against the virus.

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Gaming surgeons quash tech fears KEYHOLE surgeons excel at computer games, undermining doom and gloom predictions about the impact of technology on young people's minds, a leading researcher says.

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Lost whale calf doomed to die A WHALE calf apparently abandoned by its mother in waters north of Sydney may be doomed to die within days.

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Things are looking up at Marion Downs FROM the top of a spectacular Kimberley knoll, animal scientist Sarah Legge and pastoralist Phil Stoker survey the land that will this week become one of the world's largest private nature conservation reserves.

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Why Do Heat Waves Make Air Quality Worse? Air quality during a heat wave not only feels worse, it is worse. The combination of heat and sunlight creates a "chemical soup" that affects air quality and makes life...

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Would Removing Dams Restore Wild Salmon Runs? Hydroelectric dams harnessed U.S. rivers and brought light into the darkness in a cleaner, more sustainable way than most other power plants could claim. But the dams also created an...

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How Safe is Tap Water? Bottled water companies try to make the case that tap water is not safe to drink, urging consumers to use their products instead and arguing that bottled water is safer...

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Olympic Medalist Amanda Beard Bares All to Help Stop Animal Cruelty While many Olympic athletes were worrying about the smog in Beijing and how it may affect their health and performance, U.S. Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard made time in her busy...

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What is Drought? Is a drought just a long dry spell with too much heat and too little rain, or is the true definition of "drought" more subtle and complex than a glance...

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Double Dipping: Soaring Gas Prices, Tax Breaks Fuel Record Oil Company Profits As consumers continued paying record-high prices for gasoline this week, major oil companies were celebrating another round of record-high profits, this time for the second quarter of 2008. ExxonMobil led...

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Green Roofs are Cool: How Green Roofs Help the Environment Imagine looking out the window of a skyscraper and seeing acres of meadow instead of steaming tar spread across the rooftops of your city. That vision is becoming a reality...

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Seattle First U.S. City to Charge Shoppers for Paper and Plastic Bags Starting in January 2009, Seattle shoppers who forget to bring along reusable bags will be charged 20 cents for every disposable paper or plastic bag they use to carry home...

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Bush Wants to Squeeze Oil from Stone Reacting to voter anger over $4-per-gallon gasoline and growing concerns about U.S. dependency on foreign oil, the Bush administration is floating the idea of extracting petroleum from oil-shale deposits in...

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EPA Wants to Know What You Think Have you ever wanted to give the EPA a piece of your mind, or just tell the agency what you think about some environmental topic? Well, now you have the...

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LEADERS URGED TO FORTIFY PACIFIC REGION: GREENPEACE August 19, 2008: The region needs to be fortified against regional security threats such as excessive greenhouse gas emissions, overfishing, and rampant deforestation Greenpeace urged leaders at the Pacific Island Forum in Niue this week.

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Top chefs say Australians have right to know if they are eating GM food Leading Australian chefs Tobie Puttock, of Fifteen Restaurant, and Dur-é Dara today joined nutritionist Dr Rosemary Stanton and Greenpeace to launch a national petition, GM Food: Our Right to Know.

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Triumph for common sense as WA stays GE-free Greenpeace welcomes the Western Australian Government's extension of its ban on genetically engineered (GE) crops by a further 4 years. This is in contrast to Victoria and New South Wales, who lifted their bans and currently have GE crops under cultivation.

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Eraring activists face court for climate action Twenty-seven Greenpeace activists were today sentenced with 'remaining on inclosed lands' in Toronto Magistrates Court after successfully occupying Eraring coal fired power station earlier this month and preventing more than 10,000 tonnes of greenhouse gasses entering the atmosphere.

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Townsville Port Authority blocks Greenpeace?s Esperanza visit Known worldwide for blockading whaling ships in the Antarctic, Greenpeace?s anti-whaling ship the Esperanza is herself now subject to a blockading tactic: by the state-government owned Townsville Port Authority.

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Australians are eating food rejected in other countries Austria has banned the import of the controversial genetically engineered (GE) maize variety MON 863 produced by Monsanto, because of human health concerns. The decision follows the release last year of a peer reviewed study, which revealed evidence of liver and kidney toxicity in rats fed the maize (1).

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Rudd exporting CO2: Greenpeace paints coal ships as poll reveals 82% disagree with export coal expansion plans Monday 28 July 2008: Early this morning, Greenpeace activists in inflatables targeted a queue of almost 50 coal ships at Hay Point port in Queensland and are currently painting them with climate change protest messages such as: 'RUDD EXPORTING CO2', 'BARRIER REEF GONE', 'ICE CAPS GONE' and 'STOP COAL EXPANSION'. The peaceful action is to highlight the Rudd Government's plans to rapidly expand coal exports, when the world is trying to cut global emissions (1).

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JOINT MEDIA RELEASE: SAVE OUR FORESHORES & GREENPEACE AUSTRALIA PACIFIC This weekend saw the Whitsunday Island's largest ever on-the-water rally to welcome the Greenpeace ship Esperanza to the Whitsundays to support the local communities? fight against a proposal to mine shale rock, a huge greenhouse gas polluting industry.

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Carbon Reduction proposal light on real action Wednesday July 16, 2008: The Federal Government has capitulated to the vested interests of the greenhouse mafia by proposing an astoundingly weak Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme in its green paper released today, according to Greenpeace Climate and Energy Campaigner Simon Roz.

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Activists released; time to investigate whaling fleet corruption The two Greenpeace Japan activists, arrested and charged for intercepting a box of whale meat illegally smuggled off the Japanese whaling fleet, have been released on bail, after 26 days in custody.

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