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Queensland will become the nation’s first to introduce recycled sewage to its drinking water, and the rest of Australia would follow suit as drought threatens water supplies around the nation. A referendum planned for March on the subject was…

The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is to be out in April, but a leaked draft in the hand of the Age is making serious headlines. It predicts dire consequences of a warmer world. Shortages in food and water, droughts, rising.

With the 89 centimeters rise in the sea level( as expected)in the costal of Indonesia, a country that consists of 17,000 islands, would submerge its 2,000 islands by the end of 2030. These apprehensions were made by country’s environment minister while..

This country has a really fast economic growth, however, as far as improving and protecting the environment is concerned it lags way behind.It holds fast to its rank of the second largest producer of greenhouse gases after the US.

Its inexorable…

President Bush is calling for more federal dollars to conserve America’s oceans and coastlines.

In his fiscal plan for 2008, the president budgeted an additional $140 million to protect oceans, fish and ecosystems.

John Connelly, president of the.

A huge 500m deep Antarctic lake covering an area twice the size of Yorkshire and having enough water to provide London its water needs for 5,000 years lies under an ice sheet four kilometres deep.
Lake Vostok, was discovered beneath a Russian research..

That is what scientists are postulating as per a tooth study of an underground trove of fossil skeletons. Discovered first in 2002 in the Nullarbor Plain of southern Australia the fossils are of 70 animal species dating from 800,000 to 400,000…

The Amazon, the world’s most biologically diverse habitat is also home to numerous unidentified, isolated tribes. These people still live off the forest yet protect it by their wider wisdom. Today their land is under threat from deforestation and…

The West Virginia tributaries of the Potomac River are found to be polluted with sex-changing chemicals. These chemicals contaminating the water that runs through Washington, D.C. and surrounding areas is known to change the sexual characteristics of.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has taken a mammoth decision by moving to create a special committee to recommend legislation for cutting greenhouse gases. This move is surely going to jumpstart the traditional thinking concerning economic gains vis-a-vis.