Some of Australia’s biggest polluters continue to say one thing in public about the CPRS and tell their shareholders another.
Pollution
PHOTO GALLERY: The world’s dirtiest events
All public events tend to make a bit of a mess, but some are worse than others. Newsweek looks at some of the biggest garbage-generating events on the planet, including NASCAR, Glastonbury and the Olympics.
PHOTO GALLERY: The disturbing consequences of pollution in China
Contaminated rivers, open sewerage pipes in the sea and unexplained cancers: an award winning collection of photos by photographer Lu Guang on effects of pollution in China.
Doctors on global warming: it’s about health and security
One of the world’s most influential medical journals says that the biggest global health threat of the 21st Century comes from greenhouse emissions, fossil fuels and climate change, writes Dr David Shearman.
Video of the Day: Welcome to the most polluted place on earth
Take a trip to the coal-mining town of Linfen in Shanxi Province, China — the single most polluted place on earth. If you haven’t had your “Oh Shit” moment yet, this might just be it.
China threatens polluters with a twist of the money tap
China’s State Council has carried through with a warning made in late August to start cutting over-capacity in several industries that either pollute or have surplus capacity.
Dust storm 2: a health hazard beyond comparison
Particulate pollution has soared to levels never seen in Australia in recent hours as the red dust storm intensifies over much of the top three quarters of NSW.
Australians: the worst polluters in the world
Australia loves coming first, and here’s another gold to add to the collection: a new report says Australians are the worst polluters of carbon dioxide in the world, with an average output of 20.58 tonnes of C02 per person per year.
China’s pollution problems fuel dissent
Protests in China over the country’s badly polluted cities and water are turning violent, with 10,000 rioting in Fujian yesterday over a broken-down waste treatment plant. Things are bound to heat up across the nation.
China faces an environmental uprising
Rapid industrial development in China has led to a raft of pollution and environment-related health and social problems. But the country’s citizens aren’t taking it lying down, with environmental demonstrations on the rise in recent years. Could the government be facing a green revolution?
Never mind the RET, let’s just thrash the opposition
The Government’s emissions trading bill isn’t the only climate change-related bill coming back next week: during the last Parliamentary session, the CPRS picked up a hitchhiker in the form of the bill to implement the Government’s Renewable Energy Target.
A grave look at climate change
May sound spooky but cemeteries — gravestones in particular — are a useful measure of the effects of pollution, like acid rain. The GlobeTrek project will map the wear and tear around the world.
Diet of an albatross: four lighters, a condom and toothbrushes
This collection looks pretty doesn’t it? What if we told you all these pieces were found in the stomach of a dead fledgling Laysan albatross?
Vice’s A – Z Guide to Russia
A tour through the world’s biggest country, starting with Azithromycin.
Formula One stalls green overhaul
Although a ‘green overhaul’ of Formula One was promised back in 2006 in time for 2009, it seems the deadline has been put back a further four years.
Big polluters on a roll as public picks up the energy bill
The Government’s decision to exempt the biggest electricity users from its mandatory Renewable Energy Target will cost households and energy-efficient businesses.
The history of plastic
As the most visible evidence of a disposable, trash-addled society, plastic has become the emblem of a world swimming in waste.
US Congress considers new clean-air laws
The Obama administration may impose tough new regulations for motor vehicles and many industrial plants to limit their release of climate-changing pollution.
Truth overboard in the Pacific Adventurer incident
In case of the Pacific Adventurer the Australian media almost instantly made a scapegoat of Captain Bernardino Santos, writes Edgar Gold.
Is your shampoo creating superbugs?
Pollution from compounds in myriad household products could also be fostering antibiotic resistance, according to new research…
Pollution-detecting robot fish released
A school of pollution-detecting robotic fish are set to be released off the northern Spanish port of Gijon in a trial next year.
Setting Sydney’s coast on fire
Energie Future has applied for licences to explore for coal deposits to use in a gasification project that would involve the deposits being set alight to produce gas, writes Bernard Keane.
China diary: On a clear day, you can see Beijing
‘This was not the China we loved, this was just another city like all the others.’ Crikey’s China watcher takes the bus to Beijing.
State of the Planet
Fighting pollution with capitalism in China … a hung-up jacket is a happy planet … dealing with climate change in the now … 15 green chefs.
