Topic: Oceania
Australia's Outback could serve as a massive "pollution bank", cutting carbon emissions by five percent by 2030, with better land management and a cull of feral animals, environmentalists said Wednesday. A study commissioned by the Pew Environment Group and Nature Conservancy found ...
Lidiya ÒLidaÓ Kilchenko is NevadaÕs new Òenvironmental youth ambassador.Ó The 17-year-old Advanced Technologies Academy junior will represent the state in Australia this summer and will work to make Nevada a cleaner, more energy- and water-efficient state upon her return.Kilchenko was born in ...
A fragile plan to resolve the global feud on whaling is coming under attack from both sides, with Australia seeking more concessions from whalers and Japan vowing never to end its hunt completely. Key nations in the whaling debate submitted comments to ...
Australia has expressed alarm at growing support for a plan to allow limited commercial whaling, saying it could not accept the proposal before the International Whaling Commission (IWC). New Zealand, which also opposes whaling, is supporting moves to allow restricted commercial hunts ...
The international body to control whaling worldwide could collapse if a deal cannot be reached to allow restricted commercial whaling, New Zealand's representative said Thursday. Former New Zealand prime minister Geoffrey Palmer, who chairs an International Whaling Commission (IWC) group trying to ...
Sydney shuts off the lights to mark Earth Hour, amid pleas for deal on fighting global warmingThe white-shelled roof of the Sydney Opera House fell dark Saturday night, one of the first landmarks to turn out the lights in an hour-long gesture ...
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: March 15 Loveland (Colo.) Daily Reporter-Herald on why change in credit rules is a positive step: There's a justice in overdraft protection fees: Those who are careless in their spending ...
The Japan Coast Guard inspected a Japanese whaling ship Saturday with a New Zealand anti-whaling activist who is under arrest for trespassing on the vessel in the Antarctic Ocean last month. Peter Bethune, a member of the militant Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, ...
New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune, who is under arrest in Japan for trespass, is reported to be well and in good spirits, Foreign Minister Murray McCully said Saturday. Bethune, who has been in custody since he boarded a Japanese harpoon ship ...
Japan arrests New Zealand anti-whaling activist for illegally boarding Japanese vesselJapan's coast guard arrested an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand on Friday for illegally boarding a whaling ship last month in the latest incident in the ongoing battle over Japanese whaling. Peter ...
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