Sea Shepherd and coast guard ships collide
A coast guard icebreaker and a ship owned by the Sea Shepherd collide as tensions mount over the Canadian seal hunt.
Sunday March 30, 2008
'Cave dwelling' developers cop Moore's wrath
Sydney's Lord Mayor blasts property developers after a claim that
proposed green building requirements would add $29,000 to the cost
of every new home.
Sydney gets weather wrong
Weather forecasters correctly predicted Sydney's maximum and minimum daily temperatures on just 35 days last year.
Earth Hour
Our big turn-off could get bigger
Organisers plan for 1 billion to take part in next year's Earth Hour.
- Our gift to the world
- River crowd basks in light of a glowstick
- City slickers are the best flickers
- Oh say, do you see in the dark?
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Conservation
Sea Shepherd and coast guard ships collide
A coast guard icebreaker and a ship owned by the Sea Shepherd
collide as tensions mount over the Canadian seal hunt.
- Kangaroo cull put on hold
- Do or die for threatened species
- Seal hunters die in icy waters as cull begins
- Canada's seal hunt begins
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Water Issues
Police your own water restrictions
State governments have been told to let people decide for
themselves how to cut back on water.
- Irrigators wait for funds to flow
- Water prices to rise 13 per cent
- Delivered: the water deal Howard failed to navigate
- Desalination plants in 50-year plan
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Global Warming
Gore launches $US300m climate change campaign
Al Gore has launched a $US300 million three-year campaign to mobilise Americans on climate change.
- Developers see light on energy efficient offices
- Floral world is in a spin
- Ice shelf 'hangs by a thread'
- Warning of 'accelerated melting' of ice caps
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Energy Smart
How green is my pollie
The Federal Government will audit its own sustainability, including investigating the possibility of switching to hybrid cars.
- Biofuels boom hurting Asia's poorest: UN
- Biofuel boom threatens food supplies: Nestle
- Backyard answer to energy crisis
- On the road with electric cars
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Whale Watch
When a long-time friendship becomes stormy
Protesters severely disrupted the Japanese whale hunt this summer,
while Australia's relations with a major trade partner came under
strain.
- Terri Irwin honours Sea Shepherd chief
- Garrett calls on Iceland, Norway to end whaling
- Japanese 'overreact to anti-whaling pranks'
- Whale watchdogs' ship comes home
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hOpinions
Always look on bright side
Environmentalists might be too pessimistic, says Michael Duffy.
- Miranda Devine: Bag ban carries no weight
- Paul Watson: Hi-ho, me hearties
- Paul Sheehan: Japan must stop taking the minke
- Minoru Morimoto: Enough to watch and eat
- Tim Costello: Time to look beyond Kyoto
- Simon Webster: Animals are people too