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Just 90 companies caused two-thirds of man-made global warming emissions
• Interactive - which fossil fuel companies are most responsible?
The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which between them produced nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions generated since the dawning of the industrial age, new research suggests.
The companies range from investor-owned firms – household names such as Chevron, Exxon and BP – to state-owned and government-run firms.
Continue reading...Western Australia Marine Aquarium Fish Managed Fishery
Aqua Marine Tasmania
Commonwealth Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery
SENG National Newsletter - November 2013
Victorian landowners to rehabilitate and protect native grasslands in response to grassland clearing
Public consultation: draft assessment bilateral agreement between the Commonwealth and the State of New South Wales
Global deforestation: 10 hot spots on Google Earth – in pictures
Gigha watts: Scottish island tests batteries for wind farms
The Scottish island of Gigha is to be the focus of a £2.5m experiment aimed at solving a major technological problem: how to store energy generated by wind, tide and wave power plants. The project, which will involve building giant batteries containing 75,000 litres of sulphuric acid mixed with vanadium pentoxide, is intended to allow power generated by the island's wind turbines to be stored for later use.
At present, while Gigha's turbines are running, their power is used to run households on the island and excess is transmitted by cable to the mainland electricity grid. When winds are low, and Gigha's turbines do not turn, the grid feeds power to the island. But the cable link has an upper power limit. As a result, much of the island's excess power cannot be transmitted to the mainland and is wasted. The battery project, backed by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, is intended to get round this problem.
Continue reading...CSIRO report on sampling soil organic carbon released
Public consultation: draft assessment bilateral agreement between the Commonwealth and the State of Queensland
Water Matters - Issue 31 now online
Water Matters - Issue 31 now online
Polar bears fight for survival as sea ice melts – video
Borneo bay cat photographed in heavily logged region
One of the world's most elusive wild cats has been captured on camera in a heavily logged area of Borneo rainforest together with four other endangered species, suggesting that some wildlife can survive in highly disturbed forests.
The Bornean bay cat (Pardofelis badia) has been recorded on camera traps on just a handful of occasions to date and was only photographed in the wild for the first time in southern Sarawak in 2003. The cat, extremely secretive and similar in size to a large domestic cat with a long tail and either a reddish or grey coat, had been classified as extinct until new images taken in Malaysian Borneo in 2009 and 2010 gave fresh hope for its survival.
Continue reading...Fears for Scottish salmon farming after China production targets missed
• Concern that new strict eco standards may be compromised
The Scottish salmon farming industry is struggling to meet a controversial target to rapidly increase production to help feed China's growing appetite for fresh and smoked salmon.
The Guardian has established that Scottish salmon producers have fallen way behind their goal of increasing production by 60,000 tonnes, or 50%, by 2020 to help meet surging demand for the fish from China's middle classes. Scottish ministers now admit that hitting the target is a "challenge".
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