Migration patterns into and out of cities are the result of millions of individual decisions, which in turn are affected by thousands of factors like economics, location, politics, security, aesthetics, sentiments and others. However, it is becoming more and more …
A newly published article in Conservation Biology, Continental-Scale Governance Failure Will Hasten Loss of Australia’s Biodiversity, expresses concern about the recent spate of substantial policy, legislative and management changes being made by three of six Australian state governments for exploitative …
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In the Global Forest Change study, Earth observation satellite data were used to map global forest loss (2.3 million square kilometers) and gain (0.8 million square kilometers) from 2000 to 2012 at a spatial resolution of 30 meters. Read the …
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British Columbia’s pioneering carbon tax shift, passed in 2008, has been remarkably effective in reducing fuel use, with no apparent adverse impact on the province’s economy. These findings come from a new study by Sustainable Prosperity researchers to be published …
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The Science Daily article Scientific Consensus On Anthropogenic Climate Change reports that a comprehensive analysis of peer-reviewed articles on the topic of global warming and climate change has revealed an overwhelming consensus among scientists that recent warming is human-caused. The study …
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As part of implementing the actions in the National Research Investment Plan, the Australian Research Committee has developed Strategic Research Priorities to drive investment in areas that are of immediate and critical importance to Australia and its place in the …
A media release from The Climate Institute alerts that humanity entered uncharted territory on Saturday 11 May, as the concentration of the heat-trapping greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hit a record daily average high of 400 parts per …
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A NASA-led modeling study provides new evidence that global warming may increase the risk for extreme rainfall and drought. The study shows for the first time how rising carbon dioxide concentrations could affect the entire range of rainfall types on …
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New research Exploring the Attitudes-Action Gap in Household Resource Consumption surveyed three environmental lifestyle segments representing the spectrum of attitudes, opinions and intentions across the population in Melbourne: “committed” greens, “material” greens and “enviro-sceptics”. Despite a divergence of attitudes, opinions and …
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The Australian Government has pledged $47 million over eight years for a new Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre from 1 July 2013. This CRC will build on the 10 years of national research of the Bushfire CRC, funding …
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