Archive for ‘australia’
Australian town to run on solar power in 2 years
November 5th, 2007
A sun-drenched town in Australia’s north hopes to use only solar power in two years after being chosen as the site for a solar thermal power station. Remote Cloncurry, which boasts recording Australia’s hottest day, would be able to generate electricity on rare cloudy days and at night from the station, which runs off heat stored in graphite …
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Man killed in fight over watering lawn during drought
November 1st, 2007
A Sydney man was charged with murder Thursday after he allegedly killed a pensioner in a fight over the rights and wrongs of watering a lawn.
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Iconic Australian raincoat a climate change casualty
October 31st, 2007
Australia’s worst drought in a generation is claiming victims on and off the land, the manufacturer of the iconic Drizabone waxed-cotton raincoat said Wednesday
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Australian drought hits farmers hard
October 29th, 2007
Australia, already the world’s driest inhabited continent, is gripped by its worst drought in 100 years which has decimated crops and created a crisis among its farming community.
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Australian farmers face bankruptcy from drought
October 24th, 2007
Farmer John Ridley won’t be harvesting so much as a bag of wheat this season from fields that stretch to the horizon as Australia’s worst drought in 100 years takes its toll on the country’s grain belt. Beneath a cloudless sky, 60-year-old Ridley, a descendant of one of Australia’s pioneering farming families, pulls a clump of brittle stubble from …
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Howard breaks ranks with Bush on greenhouse targets
October 21st, 2007
Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday that he would accept targets for cutting Australia’s greenhouse gases thrashed out in a global deal that would follow the expiry of the Kyoto Protocol in 2012. Speaking in a televised debate with opposition Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd, Howard also said that he would urge US President George W Bush to join …
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Zoo to Reintroduce Hand-raised Hyena to Clan
October 8th, 2007
After being hand-raised by zoo officials in Australia, a baby hyena is being readied to rejoin the hyena clan living at the zoo.
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