Global Warming and Climate Change News

Dry Australia to buy $2.9 billion of water
Wednesday May 07th 2008, 8:49 am

ALBURY, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 23: A raimbow is seen at sunrise over the Hume Weir on February 23, 2007 in Albury, Australia. The Hume Weir is the largest dam on the River Murray and is currently at two percent capacity, the lowest level ever for the weir. When full the weir has a capacity of 3,038 Gigalitres and was built to manage water for irrigation in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. The Hume Reservoir covers a total of 1,538,000 hectares. Reports suggest that inflow to the Murray-Darling Basin is at an all time low, now 60 percent lower than the previous minimum. Located in the south-east of Australia, the Murray-Darling Basin covers 1,061,469 square kilometres, comprising about 14 per cent of the continental landmass. Some seventy percent of the river's water is used for irrigation. In the midst of the worst drought on record, the federal government, along with, Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland and South Australia are examining ways to secure water supplies and to adjust the operations of their river systems to maximize flexibility and minimize losses from the system. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images)Australia's government promised Tuesday to spend about $2.9 billion to buy river water from farmers in a bid to address the country's worst drought in a century.


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Climate change threatens koalas
Wednesday May 07th 2008, 8:19 am

In this June 30, 2006 file photo, an 8-month-old koala joey, left, clings to his mother, Adori, at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, as she perches in her tree while eating fresh eucalyptus leaves. A researcher says koala numbers are under threat from carbon pollution in the atmosphere because the greenhouse gas saps nutrients from eucalypt leaves with are the animals' only source of food. Koalas are threatened by the rising level of carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere because it saps nutrients from the eucalyptus leaves they feed on, a researcher said Wednesday.


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RBA board member highlights climate change ‘policy vacuum’ (ABC via Yahoo!7 Finance)
Wednesday May 07th 2008, 4:18 am

A Reserve Bank board member and an internationally recognised climate change expert has expressed concern at the lack of Government policy to effectively deal with global warming. [News Source]

RBA board member highlights climate change ‘policy vacuum’ (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
Wednesday May 07th 2008, 4:18 am

A Reserve Bank board member and an internationally recognised climate change expert has expressed concern at the lack of Government policy to effectively deal with global warming. [News Source]

Koalas threatened by climate change (Midwest Times)
Wednesday May 07th 2008, 2:22 am

SYDNEY - The koala is under threat from climate change, according to new research which shows rising carbon dioxide levels are killing nutrients in the plants they eat.Lab tests have revealed that global warming is stripping the goodness from eucalypt leaves, and the University of Sydney researchers behind the study say the koalas that rely on them don't have enough time to adapt to the ... [News Source]

Koalas threatened by climate change (Lithgow Mercury)
Wednesday May 07th 2008, 2:20 am

SYDNEY - The koala is under threat from climate change, according to new research which shows rising carbon dioxide levels are killing nutrients in the plants they eat.Lab tests have revealed that global warming is stripping the goodness from eucalypt leaves, and the University of Sydney researchers behind the study say the koalas that rely on them don't have enough time to adapt to the ... [News Source]

Koalas threatened by climate change (Hastings Gazette)
Wednesday May 07th 2008, 2:19 am

SYDNEY - The koala is under threat from climate change, according to new research which shows rising carbon dioxide levels are killing nutrients in the plants they eat.Lab tests have revealed that global warming is stripping the goodness from eucalypt leaves, and the University of Sydney researchers behind the study say the koalas that rely on them don't have enough time to adapt to the ... [News Source]

Koalas threatened by climate change (Mandurah Mail)
Wednesday May 07th 2008, 2:19 am

SYDNEY - The koala is under threat from climate change, according to new research which shows rising carbon dioxide levels are killing nutrients in the plants they eat.Lab tests have revealed that global warming is stripping the goodness from eucalypt leaves, and the University of Sydney researchers behind the study say the koalas that rely on them don't have enough time to adapt to the ... [News Source]

Koalas threatened by climate change (Esperance Express)
Wednesday May 07th 2008, 2:19 am

SYDNEY - The koala is under threat from climate change, according to new research which shows rising carbon dioxide levels are killing nutrients in the plants they eat.Lab tests have revealed that global warming is stripping the goodness from eucalypt leaves, and the University of Sydney researchers behind the study say the koalas that rely on them don't have enough time to adapt to the ... [News Source]

Evangelicals differ on climate, global warming (Florida Baptist Witness)
Wednesday May 07th 2008, 12:15 am

NASHVILLE (BP)—Disagreements among evangelical Christians about global warming are rooted in a fundamental question: Is human-induced climate change a real problem? [News Source]