Labor would return funding to Queensland CRCs
If elected, the Australian Labor Party says it will allocate $35 million to co-operative research centres examining Queensland’s reef and rainforest areas.

If elected, the Australian Labor Party says it will allocate $35 million to co-operative research centres examining Queensland’s reef and rainforest areas.

In a first, the UN and officials from North Korea have agreed on an assessment of the environment in the isolated nation for 2003. The report paints a devastating picture, but also suggests that North Korea may be more willing to work with the international community towards improving its environmental sustainability.

Conservationists are alarmed at reports an Irish super-trawler capable of storing 7000 tonnes of fish is headed for Australia.

More than a hundred British MPs have sent a petition to John Howard urging him to protect Tasmania’s forests.

Two scientists from UNSW claim to have found a way to produce hydrogen energy - touted as the energy of the future - without producing greenhouse gases.

Hydrogren power from solar energy can make Australia the world’s richest nation, according to T. Nejat Veziroglu, director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation

Friends of the Earth are calling on the Federal Science Minister to release the secret shortlist of potential sites for a planned national nuclear waste dump.