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News | Environment | National
3/12/2008 9:38:00 AM. Is the white lemuroid possum extinct? If so, it would make it the first mammalian extinction due to climate change.
If they have died out it would be first example of something that has gone extinct purely because of global warming. Researcher Steve Williams
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Climate change fight could create jobs: Ban Ki-moon
Environment | World
26/11/2008 8:17:00 AM. Levels of climate-warming greenhouses gases rose to record highs in 2007, leading to a one per cent increase in the overall warming effect, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) says.
The total warming effect of all long-lived greenhouse gases was calculated to have increased by 1.06 per cent from the previous year and by 24.2 per cent since 1990. World Meteorological Organisation
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Is this possum the first furry victim of climate change?
Environment
24/11/2008 1:26:00 PM. Five pilot whales tagged with satellite tracking devices after surviving a mass stranding have successfully joined a larger pod in deeper waters off Tasmania.
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150 whales dead after mass beaching
24/11/2008 9:49:00 AM. There is further incentive to install solar power panels, with homeowners to be paid for the power they generate.
By 2020 we need to be sourcing 20 per cent of our electricity from renewable sources and this will be part of our solution to meeting that challenge. NSW Minister for Climate Change Carmel Tebbutt
Govt to blame for solar factory closure: Greens
23/11/2008 8:15:00 AM. It’s a fight against time for a group of wildlife rescuers in Tasmania where they are trying to rescue a pod of beached whales.
Pilot whales stranded on Tasmanian beach
21/11/2008 11:17:00 AM. Japanese whaling ships will not be monitored by Australia this summer, with Environment Minister Peter Garrett saying enough damning evidence has already been collected.
The Oceanic Viking has successfully completed its mission on monitoring the Japanese whaling activity... Environment Minister Peter Garrett
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20/11/2008 11:38:00 AM. Australia has no plans to follow the US and the UK in adopting a tougher target to slash greenhouse gas emissions.
The Rudd government remains committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions 60 per cent from 2000 levels by 2050... Spokesperson for Climate Change Minister Penny Wong
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1/12/2008 8:53:00 PM. The $13 billion takeover of the Murray-Darling Basin is in doubt after the federal government used its numbers to override Senate changes to the plan.
From this moment forward (Prime Minister) Kevin Rudd owns the north-south pipeline. Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt
Grim forecast for Murray-Darling Basin
Business | Environment
1/12/2008 8:27:00 AM. Aid specialists support a claim by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that efforts to adapt to climate change could create "millions of jobs" if enough funding is available.
There is huge potential... UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
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Environment | National
30/11/2008 9:11:00 PM. The northern NSW region of Gunnedah Shire has been included in areas declared "natural disaster" zones, following torrential rain over the weekend.
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Fraser quits after shoving colleague
30/11/2008 5:15:00 PM. Authorities now say 150 whales perished in the gruesome mass stranding off Tasmania's west coast, which saw the animals dashed repeatedly against the rocky beach.
Our first priority was to try to stop other animals from stranding... we have met with some success. Department of Primary Industries and Water spokesman Warwick Brennan
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Take Japan to court over whaling: Liberals
Opinion
It’s the ultimate irony – on the same night the Labor party was voting to stop pub punch-ups, Nationals MP Andrew Fraser was shoving a female colleague on the floor of parliament, fresh from Christmas drinks.
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