Tag: Australia

• Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 - 09:04 UTC

  Australian firm will use revolutionary blockchain platform to track its toothfish

  

  WWF-Australia and BCG Digital Ventures launched a revolutionary new digital platform that uses blockchain and other technologies to track food and products, and that will help people and business to avoid illegal, environmentally-damaging or unethical products.

• Wednesday, January 16th 2019 - 05:48 UTC

  Australia exposed to record temperatures: some 45C expected this Wednesday

  

  Australians have been warned to avoid exerting themselves outdoors and to drink lots of water as record temperatures in parts of the country look set to linger, and even increase, over coming days. Parts of New South Wales, Australia’s most populated state, and an area of Western Australia, saw record high minimum temperatures of 33 Celsius overnight.

• Saturday, December 15th 2018 - 08:52 UTC

  Australia will recognize West Jerusalem as Israel's capital, but won't move from Tel Aviv until a peace deal

  

  Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed that his government will recognize West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. However, he said Australia's embassy would not move from Tel Aviv, until a peace settlement was achieved. He added Australia also recognized the aspirations of the Palestinians to a state with a capital in East Jerusalem.

• Tuesday, December 4th 2018 - 08:48 UTC

  Australian drought hits wheat estimates: lowest crop in a decade

  

  Australia on Tuesday lowered its wheat production forecast by 11% to the smallest in a decade amid a crippling drought across the country’s east coast that may cut exports from the world’s fourth biggest supplier.

• Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 06:35 UTC

  King steer Knickers size has proved to be his saving grace

  

  Knickers looms above the thousands of other cattle that he feeds with in rural Western Australia. At some 1,400kg (220st) and 194cm (6ft 4in), the seven-year-old is believed to be the biggest steer in a country home to millions of cattle. And his size has proved to be his saving grace.

• Thursday, November 22nd 2018 - 08:36 UTC

  Australia dust storm shrouds Sydney and reduces visibility to meters; air quality hazardous

  

  A dust storm that has swept across drought-stricken parts of New South Wales in Australia has shrouded Sydney's landmarks and sparked an air quality warning from the State Government. The dust storm, which stretches about 500 kilometers, reduced visibility to just meters in far western NSW including at Darling River and Broken Hill.

• Thursday, October 18th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Tasmania “fairy” penguins mauled to death by dogs

  

  Australian Wildlife officials are investigating a suspected dog attack in Tasmania, after 58 penguins were found mauled to death. A member of the public alerted rangers to the dozens of penguin bodies strewn across a beach on the north coast of Australia's island state.

• Tuesday, September 25th 2018 - 08:24 UTC

  Green mosses of East Antarctica are succumbing to climate change, says scientific paper

  

  Emerging from the ice for a brief growing season every Antarctic summer, the lush green mosses of East Antarctica are finally succumbing to climate change. That is according to a study of the small, ancient and hardy plants - carried out over more than a decade.

• Tuesday, August 21st 2018 - 08:04 UTC

  Emus flock to towns as Australia continues to struggle with extreme drought

  

  Large numbers of emus have been flocking to an outback mining town in New South Wales as Australia continues to struggle with extreme drought. The flightless birds are desperately searching for food and water in Broken Hill, local animal rescue services say.

• Monday, August 6th 2018 - 06:45 UTC

  East Australia suffering worst drought in living memory: massive cull of livestock

  

  The worst drought in living memory is sweeping parts of eastern Australia, leaving farmers struggling to cope and asking questions about their future. Record-low rainfall in some regions and successive seasons of above-average temperatures have blighted vast tracts of Australia's grazing and crop land.