November 17, 2006

The commitment by the Victorian ALP to new River Red Gum National Parks along the River Murray and its tributaries has been cautiously welcomed today by leading conservation groups.

November 17, 2006

Victoria’s peak environment groups welcomed Steve Bracks increased protection of Cobboboonee in the South-West and some old growth forests in Eastern Victoria today, but significantly more needed to be done, the groups said.

November 17, 2006

Senator Ian Campbell should be reflecting on the approach of the Australian government to climate change as he travels home from the International Climate Change negotiations in Nairobi.

November 14, 2006

NAIROBI, KENYA, November 14, 2006 -- By insisting that the 'Convention Dialogue' it chairs should replace the climate change agreement known as the Kyoto Protocol, the Australian government is offending the 165 nations that ratified the United Nations agreement and have gathered here to start negotiations for the Protocol's continuation after 2012. [1]

November 13, 2006

Federal industry minister Ian Macfarlane will this afternoon release the report of the Uranium Industry Framework Steering Group, which will include numerous recommendations to expand Australia's uranium mining industry.

November 10, 2006

Community groups all over the world will be participating in an international day of action against Shell today November 10.

The groups are taking part in actions to commemorate the lives and deaths of the Nigerian writer and activist Ken Saro Wiwa and eight others who were executed 11 years ago today.

November 09, 2006

[Nairobi, Kenya] The Australian government delegation is still using its position as a signatory to the UNFCCC manipulate and obscure the intentions and principles of the International Climate Change Convention.

November 3, 2006

Friends of the Earth Australia is concerned that the Australian government will continue to mislead the international community as well as the Australian people with rash statements made this week that the Kyoto Protocol is dead and the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (AP6) is the real solution to climate change.

October 30, 2006

The Stern report, written by UK economist Sir Nicholas Stern for the British Government,  and released this week, says drought and floods could render large areas of the planet uninhabitable, turning 200 million people into refugees. This would form the largest migration in human history.

CANBERRA, Oct 16 - North Korea's nuclear test last week was proof that development of nuclear power for peaceful purposes could not be guaranteed, Greenpeace said today.