Throughout the entire region the environment continues to face growing pressures. It comes from a growing range of converging issues like urban expansion; destruction of native forests; rapidly expanding populations; growing inequality and poverty; water, soil and air pollution; and the international inaction on climate change.
Queenslanders have already lost homes and livelihoods to floodwaters, now they could be faced with huge impacts to biodiversity in beautiful Moreton Bay.
The NSW Government's decision to end its support for the Hunter's unpopular Tillegra dam has been described as a major victory for the community by the NSW Greens.
While water activists and environmentalists have hailed the recent decision by the UN General Assembly to grant access to safe water and adequate sanitation as a human right, Australia and New Zealand followed the United States, Canada and the UK in abstaining from the vote.
The Philippines-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) $US100 million loan to China’s Wuhan Province to help finance the Wuhan Urban Environmental Improvement Project is expected to act as a template for the country and the region, bank officials have said.
A new report issued by specialist insurance group Lloyds, along with environmental organisation WWF, has warned global businesses of the consequences of corporate inaction in fighting the growing global water scarcity crisis.
A UN-sponsored report has listed nine recommendations for world Governments and NGOs to reach Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on sanitation.
Developing countries, including those in the Asia Pacific region, require increased funding and community cooperation to ensure schools have access to clean water and adequate sanitation facilities, according to a new UNICEF report.
A growing population and increasing industrialisation have been listed as the chief threats to water supply in the Asia Pacific, according to a UN-sponsored report released last month.
By Rich Bowden: Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has turned up the heat on the Queensland Labor Government, calling its proposed legislation to protect a number of wild rivers in the State’s north “outrageous.” Mr Abbott promised to introduce a private members’ bill into the federal Parliament which would would reverse the Queensland Government’s...
Lae city in Papua New Guinea’s eastern Morobe Province is struggling to cope with another outbreak of cholera.
While PM Kevin Rudd has welcomed 60 percent population growth in Australia by 2050, others have questioned if the country can sustain this.
Uncle Dootch Kennedy from the Illawarra Aboriginal Land Council welcomed two NT Aboriginal representatives, to Climate Camp '09.
