Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In the Great Lakes region of the United States, changing seasonal ice conditions are putting at risk “snow snake,” a culturally important game which for many Ojibwe youth is a rite of passage. The drawings use complex geometric patterns which also facilitate communication among many of Vanuatu’s 110 different language groups.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 2, 2024

Glencore was given a permit to build a dredging waste dump site to serve the McArthur River Mine lead and zinc extraction operation in Australia’s Northern Territories. The regional government was sued by members of the Yanyuwa and Yanyuwa-Mara community (who hold Aboriginal title to the site) for failing to consult them.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 6, 2021

A cold front is moving over parts of Australia after a weekend of heavy rain. Large stretches of Australia are preparing for a massive cold front after heavy rainstorms poured 44 millimeters (1.7 YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Tropical Storm Elsa tears through parts of the Caribbean, including Cuba. ” ON THE RADAR.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 29, 2023

Australia’s Murray-Darling river basin. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN Millions of fish have died in southeastern Australia , reigniting a local battle over river overuse. Water capacity at Sidi Salem Dam, which provides drinking water for multiple regions, has fallen to 16 percent.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Melting glaciers in the north Pacific could create temporary habitats for regional salmon. In Australia , many of the same areas that endured brutal bushfires in 2019 and 2020 are now drowning in record-setting rainfall. Australia smoldered during the epic “Black Summer” bush fires of 2019 and 2020.

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Inhabitant

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Nestled in the forests of Australia's Blue Mountains, Anderson Architecture's Off Grid House is an experimental dwelling that pushes the limits of sustainable living in remote regions.

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JULY 20, 2022

Australia’s Kakadu Flood Plains in February 2022. Constant flooding in Australia is taking a toll on residents’ mental health. Also in Australia , a new report reveals severe environmental deterioration over the last five years. Regional experts point to deficits in local institutions and risk planning. 90 PERCENT.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 2, 2022

Heavy rain batters parts of Australia. Why It Matters: Water indeed could make the Great Lakes region a climate refuge. Read the collaborative’s work that explores the greatest challenges and opportunities throughout the Great Lakes region. Bombings in Ukraine have left hundreds of thousands of citizens without drinking water.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 14, 2022

A gas exploration project in an Australia river basin may have immense consequences for global CO2 emission goals. A new report has found that a project to extract gas from the Lake Eyre basin in Queensland, Australia could stop Australia from meeting its emission targets.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Across the world’s primary grape-growing regions, from Europe to Australia and California, winemakers and growers are facing the same challenges: severe drought and heat in the summer and early warm temperatures in the winter followed by punishing frosts that are killing their vines or leaving them vulnerable to disease.

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JUNE 24, 2021

An atmospheric river will bring heavy rainstorms across Australia this week. Severe storms are forecasted across Australia this week. The storms will deliver much needed precipitation to desert areas of South Australia. But they will miss regions in Gippsland that have been severely flooded over the past two weeks.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

It’s not a good areal sample of the northern hemisphere, it’s not a good sample of rural stations – many of which exist in the rest of Europe, Australia, Southern Africa, South America etc., An areal weighting of the four regional time series might be justifiable, but that isn’t what’s done. Lean, and D.H.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In Syria, a major cholera outbreak that began in the northern regions has now spread across the country. Lack of water doomed plans for a proposed hydrogen production facility in Australia that were shelved in May. Welcome to “What’s Up With Water” – your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 10, 2022

This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers recent heatwaves in India and Pakistan and the reason some homes in Australia may become “uninsurable.” The severity of this and other recent heat waves in the region is a consequence of climate change. Transcript.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2021

“Every region behaves differently,” Hallegraeff, an emeritus professor at the University of Tasmania, told Circle of Blue. This work shows very clearly that we need to study this problem region by region and species by species. Though lacking proof of a global trend, the study did find evidence of regional variations.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 16, 2024

They’re found in the Indo-Pacific region from China to Australia and can reach a maximum of six feet in length. They are found in coastal and pelagic habitats in temperature and tropical regions around the world. Similar to greats, they are found around the world in tropical and temperate regions.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 6, 2022

More News From Australia: As historic flooding continues in New South Wales and Queensland, affected residents say real estate agents should be required to make buyers aware of risks. . Persistent drought has led to economic crises in Honduras’s farm regions. In Recent Water News. Latest IPCC Report Tackles Climate Mitigation.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Rivers around the world, like the Darling River in Australia, are at risk for major ecological change as hydrologic regimes shift. On the other hand, northern boreal regions are at relatively lower risk. Photo credit: Tim J. Keegan , CC BY-SA 2.0. By Emily Cerf.

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Physics World

JANUARY 27, 2022

Radio waves can penetrate dust that permeates the region and obscures the view at other wavelengths such as optical. MeerKAT is the most sensitive telescope of its kind and is a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope, which will be built in South Africa and Australia within the coming decade.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Chambers Asia-Pacific spans the region's largest and smallest jurisdictions, including Australia, India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Nepal, Afghanistan, and nine Pacific Island nations. David Park—International Trade/WTO (Asia-Pacific Region). Lee—Dispute Resolution: International Firms (South Korea).

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Corp Watch

JULY 2, 2020

The Juukan Gorge, a 46,000 year-old sacred Aboriginal site in the Pilbara region of Western Australia was blown up by Rio Tinto, the world’s second largest mining company, in a quest for iron ore, despite the fact that company executives were aware of the site’s significance to local tribes.

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MARCH 9, 2022

Indigenous groups across the region have spent lifetimes battling state governments for water allocations in Australia. What’s Up With Water—March 8, 2022 – This week’s episode covers disrupted water supplies in Ukraine and historic flooding in Australia. gigalitres (332.8 In Recent Water News.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

Cutting down trees in Brazil’s Amazon region is threatening to destabilize moisture feedbacks that nourish the iconic rain forest. Meanwhile, extreme weather like the Millennium drought in Australia has been shown to trigger anxiety and worsen mental health. Climate change is bad enough, but human actions are making the fallout worse.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 31, 2023

The differences in sea foam density and proliferation depend on the concentration and type of organic matter and the intensity of the agitation, which varies by region and season. In Australia, there were reports of venomous sea snakes beneath the massive sea foam —apparently, they like the bubbles.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Chambers Asia-Pacific spans the region's largest and smallest jurisdictions, including Australia, India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Nepal, Afghanistan, and nine Pacific Island nations. David Park—International Trade/WTO (Asia-Pacific Region). Lee—Dispute Resolution: International Firms (South Korea).

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Climate change mitigation solutions should be prioritized in regions not affected by water scarcity.”. Severe droughts in Australia, East Africa, the Mediterranean, and the American West in recent years have underscored the fact that a warming climate means dry areas will become drier.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 19, 2022

light rail projects (powered by overhead electric lines) cost around 15 percent more than similar projects in Europe, Canada, and Australia. In the United States, different governance authorities hold veto power over multiple decision points, and lack of alignment between these authorities can derail regionally-crucial projects.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

We are pretty much locked into 1.5,” said report co-author Malte Meinshausen, a climate scientist at the University of Melbourne in Australia. is a politically demarcated boundary beyond which things get worse and worse incrementally especially for the most vulnerable people and regions of the world.” mark soon. “We

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2022

The Russian war in Ukraine is an abominable humanitarian catastrophe, and it poses many risks for the region and the wider world. Most of the world’s commodity grains are used in the country or region where they are produced. Only a fraction of what is produced goes on the global market. percent of its wheat imports.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

These issues often result in conflicts with local and indigenous communities, as brine deposits are typically found in water-scarce desert regions. Although not exempt from controversy, SQM and Albemarle have been incredibly successful, making Chile the largest producer of lithium carbonate until 2017, when Australia surpassed it.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 27, 2022

Water in Australia—Too Much and Too Little: In Sydney , experts say development has put more and more residents at risk of flooding. Meanwhile, Australians in more than 400 remote or regional communities lack access to clean drinking water, new research has found. More Water News.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Join us for this compelling assessment of the US relationship with China, India, North Korea, and other countries in the Indo-Pacific region and the expected changes in US policy under the Biden Administration. Ambassador Paul Myler, Embassy of Australia, Minister-Counsellor. Ambassador Kenneth I.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 16, 2022

What’s Up With Water—March 15, 2022 – This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers the aftermath of devastating floods in Australia, a flood resilience project in New York City, and water conservation legislation in Utah. If their predictions are correct, it will the longest the region has experienced in 40 years. On the Radar.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 24, 2021

New research out of Australia finds that water levels on the southern part of the Murray Darling Basin are rapidly declining. Climate change, water mismanagement and overuse paint a grim future for many parts of the region. Four million people in Lebanon could face a water shortage as a fuel crisis causes rolling blackouts.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Human Rights Committee (Committee) handed down a landmark decision in Daniel Billy and others v Australia , holding that Australia is violating its human rights obligations to the indigenous Torres Strait Islanders through climate change inaction. A landmark decision recognizing the impacts of climate change on human rights.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2023

Trials I recently returned to the Union of Concerned Scientists as the Wester States Regional Director. Now, we have hundreds of plans, each comprised of hundreds of pages, and each using different models to estimate how groundwater works in their region (sometimes contradicting the models of overlapping and neighboring areas!).

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

United Nations Human Rights Committee finds that Australia is violating human rights obligations towards Torres Strait Islanders for climate inaction. The eight Torres Strait Islanders are indigenous inhabitants of Boigu, Poruma, Warraber and Masig, four small, low-lying islands in Australia. By Maria Antonia Tigre. The Complaint.

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