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The Conversation
06 August 2013
Northern futures, northern voices: It seems everyone has ideas about how Australia’s north could be better, but most of those ideas come from the south. In this six-part weekly series, developed by the Northern Research Futures Collaborative Research Network and The Conversation, northern researchers lay out their own plans for a feasible, sustainable future.
Recently, Australia’s north has featured front-and-centre in national debates about the country’s future; the election campaign will likely see more claims about what the north can do for the country. Read more
Message from the Science Leader
Dr. Peter Doherty (AIMS)
Trans-equatorial migration of tropical shearwaters – wintering with tuna
Fiona McDuie & Dr. Brad Congdon (JCU)
Effects of terrestrial runoff on the water clarity in the Burdekin Region: 10-years of remote sensing data give new insights
Dr. Katharina Fabricius (AIMS)
Assessing the threats to Torres Strait water quality and the implications for ecosystems and public health
Jon Brodie and Jane Waterhouse (TropWater, JCU)
Conservation Planning for a Changing Coastal Zone
Dr. Amélie Augé (JCU)
Prioritizing management actions for the southern Great Barrier Reef Islands
Amelia Wenger (JCU)
Solutions in the Mackay coastal region by locals for locals
Dr. Cathy Dichmont (CSIRO)
Investigating nursery areas for sharks on the Central GBR coast
Professor Colin Simpfendorfer (JCU)
Northjersey.com
14 September 2013
NORMANBY ISLAND, Papua New Guinea (AP) — Katharina Fabricius plunged from a dive boat into the Pacific Ocean of tomorrow.
A bleak portrait emerged: Instead of tiered jungles of branching, leafy corals, Fabricius saw mud, stubby spires and squat boulder corals. Snails and clams were mostly gone, as were worms, colorful sea squirts and ornate feather stars. Read more
Blue & Green Tomorrow
27 March 2014
As human activities make the oceans more acidic many marine species are increasingly being put at risk, including populations of fish that people around the world rely on for food, scientists have warned.
Speaking to the BBC, in an investigation for Newsnight by environment analyst Roger Harrabin, experts warn that rising levels of CO2 are a major threat to aquatic ecosystems. Read more
9 News
08 November 2013
Federal MP Clive Palmer says a massive dam storing contaminated water at his Queensland nickel refinery is meeting environmental regulations after claims it is at risk of overflowing.
The Australian newspaper is reporting that a Department of Environment briefing note shows the Queensland Nickel Yabulu Refinery (QNI) near Townsville is operating outside "spill risk" limits due to a failure to increase its capacity. Read more
Brisbane Times
21 August 2013
Judging by the positions taken by all major parties contesting the federal election, everyone wants to save the Great Barrier Reef. Even those unmoved by the beauty of the coral labyrinths and marine life recognise the huge economic benefit the reef brings, which includes $5 billion in cash and 63,000 permanent jobs as a direct result of tourism and research.
Coral cover has shrunk by half since 1985, inshore reefs have declined 34 per cent in the last eight years, and outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish are becoming common, fed by farm runoff from the Queensland coast. Read more
Environmental Research Web
05 July 2013
Current pesticide risk assessment falls short of protecting biodiversity.
Washington/Leipzig/Sydney. The pesticides, many of which are currently used in Europe and Australia, are responsible for reducing the regional diversity of invertebrates in streams and rivers by up to 42 percent, researchers report in the Proceedings of the US Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Mikhail A. Beketov and Matthias Liess from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, together with Ben Kefford from the University of Technology, Sydney and Ralf B. Schäfer from the Institute for Environmental Sciences Landau, analysed the impact of pesticides, such as insecticides and fungicides, on the regional biodiversity of invertebrates in flowing waters using data from Germany, France and Victoria in Australia. The authors of the now-published study state that this is the first ever study which has investigated the effects of pesticides on regional biodiversity. Read more
ABC News
14 January 2014
A conservation lobby group says it has been overwhelmed by community opposition to a proposed major dredging project in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
The park's authority has until the end of January to decide if it will issue a permit for three million cubic metres of dredge spoil to be dumped into the reef to allow the expansion of the Abbot Point Coal Terminal near Bowen. Read more
ABC News
17 November 2013
The Federal Government has axed plans to dump dredge spoils into the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage area off Gladstone in central Queensland.
Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt has ordered the Queensland Government and the Gladstone Ports Corporation to consider only onshore dumping of dredge spoils from the construction of a proposed $400 million second sea lane. Read more
ABC Radio Australia
02 October 2012
Australia's peak scientific body says Papua New Guinea's growing population is more of an immediate threat to the region's sustainability than climate change.
James Butler, leader of CSIRO's environment and development team, who released the report, says the window of opportunity for aid spending on the problem is "pretty small."
"We've probably got about 10, 15, 20 years to really get it right," Mr Butler told Radio Australia's Asia Pacific. Read more
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