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Water Experts Converge For National Water Solutions
15th January 2009 -
Views: 634
At a time when millions of Australians face water shortages, and community and government begin to recognise the challenges posed by climate change, Ozwater09 will gather hundreds of water experts in Melbourne to chart the nation's path to sustainable water management.
New Antarctic Laboratory Conserves Artefacts From Sir Douglas Mawson's Expediti
12th January 2009 -
Views: 675
The multi-year program to conserve Australia’s Antarctic heritage at Cape Denison, Antarctica, has moved into a major new phase with the inauguration of an on-site artefact conservation laboratory. The laboratory is now being used by conservators at Cape Denison, members of the 2008-09 Mawson’s Huts Foundation team, tackling the conservation challenges posed by artefacts buried in ice for nearly 100 years.
New Ocean Monuments Give President Bush A Blue Legacy
7th January 2009 -
Views: 615
President Bush today designated 3 new marine national monuments in the Pacific Ocean totaling more than 195,000 square miles, an area greater than Oregon and Washington combined. Together with Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, which was established in 2006 in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, President Bush will have designated monuments protecting 335,561 square miles of ocean, a larger area of the world's marine environment than protected by any other person in history.
Pacific Churches Thank Australia For Effectively Wiping Out The Pacific Region
16th December 2008 -
Views: 575
“A proposed reduction of between 5-15% in greenhouse gas emissions will not put a dent in the global efforts to reduce the effects of climate change” said Mr Fe’iloakitau Kaho Tevi, General Secretary of the Pacific Conference of Churches.
A Medal For The Genoa River Wilderness
15th December 2008 -
Views: 891
A pioneering rural project, the Nungatta Station Land Management Project, central to the local ecology of the pristine Genoa River wilderness, has won the 2008 NSW Medal in Landscape Architecture. The Genoa River travels from South Eastern NSW through to Victoria, a fantastically remote location for a project of this kind.
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