Tag Archives: pollution

Australia COVID: Kevin Rudd calls for ACMA to be abolished over Sky News COVID-19 claims

Posted on August 16, 2021 by groundswellbasscoast

Australia COVID: Kevin Rudd calls for ACMA to be abolished over Sky News COVID-19 claims — Read on amp.smh.com.au/politics/federal/monumentally-failed-rudd-calls-for-media-watchdog-to-be-abolished-over-sky-news-covid-19-claims-20210812-p58i79.html

Posted in Events local, Events National | Tagged | Leave a comment

Fish supplies face rising threat from algal blooms

Posted on June 11, 2021 by groundswellbasscoast

10 June, 2021 – Fish farms, and the protein supply of over three billion people, are at increasing risk from algal blooms. — Read on climatenewsnetwork.net/fish-supplies-face-rising-threat-from-algal-blooms/

Posted in Events International, Events local | Tagged , | Leave a comment

AGL takes Greenpeace to court over climate campaign

Posted on May 10, 2021 by groundswellbasscoast

Coal industry giant AGL attempts to silence Greenpeace for exposing its devastating ongoing damage to the environment and human health. — Read on independentaustralia.net/ Imagine AGL disputing they’re biggest polluter in Oz?

Posted in Events local, Events National | Tagged | Leave a comment

Fuel’s paradise

Posted on October 14, 2020 by groundswellbasscoast

Australia lags by more than a decade in tackling the health effects of low-quality petrol — Read on insidestory.org.au/fuels-paradise/ How smugly is this, after 5 years investigation to 2018… …”environment minister, Josh Frydenberg, declared that “Australia’s petrol quality is the lowest … Continue reading →

Posted in Events International, Events National | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

TAKE ACTION: Send the EPA an OVERDUE Notice

Posted on October 13, 2020 by groundswellbasscoast

It has been almost THREE YEARS since the EPA began their coal power station licence review. Now it has stalled without explanation. — Read on environmentvictoria.org.au/action/send-the-epa-an-overdue-notice/ In a country with emission limits for residential slow combustion wood fires, wouldn’t you … Continue reading →

Posted in Events local | Tagged | Leave a comment

Clean ships needed now to cut polluting emissions

Posted on June 26, 2020 by groundswellbasscoast

25 June, 2020 − The vessels plying the world’s oceans release huge volumes of polluting emissions. Existing fleets badly need a clean-up. — Read on climatenewsnetwork.net/clean-ships-needed-now-to-cut-polluting-emissions/

Posted in Events International | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Pollution in Deepest ocean trenches, high levels

Posted on February 14, 2017 by groundswellbasscoast

PHOTO: Pollution levels in amphipods in the Mariana Trench were higher than in estuaries of polluted rivers in China (Wikimedia Commons: Daiju Azuma) An interesting item which reminds of reference by Tim Flannery in book Atmosphere of Hope, about worries that emissions … Continue reading →

Posted in Events local | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Oceans de-oxygenated

Posted on July 17, 2016 by groundswellbasscoast

Ocean anoxia – widespread oxygen-starved dead zones in oceans – did the killing of ocean life in several mass extinctions of Earth’s past.  Anoxia went hand-in-hand with CO2emissions, rising global temperatures, and (often) ocean acidification, a situation which today’s climate change is recreating … Continue reading →

Posted in Events local | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Gold Mining devastated Peruvian Amazon

Posted on June 1, 2016 by groundswellbasscoast

…mining pollution has become so severe that last week Peru declared a 60-day emergency to curtail mercury poisoning from illegal gold mining. “Forty-one percent of the population of Madre de Dios is exposed to mercury pollution,” On a good day, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Events local | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Climate change believers can still be climate change deniers, says author

Posted on May 20, 2016 by groundswellbasscoast

She says bleaching of up to 95 % of Great Barrier Reef, the worst ever recorded coral bleaching event, should be a Hurricane Katrina-like “wakeup call”. From Cairns to Torres Strait, once colourful ribbons of reef are ghostly white. It’s the third mass … Continue reading →

Posted in Events local | Tagged , , | Leave a comment