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Police end PNG logging protest
22:11:27, 5 September 2008, Radio Australia News
Armed police officers have ended a three day protest by Greenpeace activists who have been preventing an export ship loading logs at a remote port in Papua New Guinea.
Australian government rejects coal, rail project
22:11:26, 5 September 2008, Radio Australia News
Australia's Environment Minister Peter Garrett has rejected a proposed rail line and coal terminal at Shoalwater Bay in Central Queensland.
Activists continue to halt logging ship loading in PNG
22:11:14, 4 September 2008, Radio Australia News
Greenpeace activists are still preventing an Asian export ship from loading logs bound for China at a remote port on the Papua New Guinea south coast.
Greenpeace activists storm logging ship in PNG port
14:08:42, 3 September 2008, Radio Australia News
Greenpeace activists have stormed on board a logging ship at a port in Papua New Guinea, preventing stevedores from loading logs bound for China.
Emissions trading will cost Australia's community sector: economist
11:58:30, 1 September 2008, Radio Australia News
An economist has warned Australia's community welfare sector will need more than a billion dollars in compensation to cope with an emissions trading scheme.
Indonesia doubles size of Sumatra national park
13:25:36, 28 August 2008, Radio Australia News
Sumatra's endangered elephants and tigers are to get a boost from an Indonesian government move to expand one of their last havens.
Australian inquiry aims to replenish river system
09:40:47, 27 August 2008, Radio Australia News
The Australian Federal Government and the Liberal National Opposition are expected to support a motion by the minor Greens party to set up an inquiry aimed at replenishing the Murray River's lower basin.
Business lobbies for changes to Australian emissions scheme
17:45:53, 21 August 2008, Radio Australia News
The Business Council of Australia is lobbying the Australian government to change its proposed emissions trading scheme because of the cost to the economy.
Disaster warning system needed: Australian scientists
08:24:18, 18 August 2008, Radio Australia News
Geoscientists say Australia is in urgent need of an early warning system to alert governments of impending environmental disasters.
Australian activists fined for damaging ship
17:47:00, 14 August 2008, Radio Australia News
Ten Greenpeace activists charged with vandalising coal ships, have appeared in a magistrates court in Australia's east coast town of Cairns.
Asia's primates being driven to extinction
00:32:43, 6 August 2008, Radio Australia News
Humanity's closest cousins - gorillas, orangutans and other primates - are dying out at an unprecedented rate, with some being eaten to extinction.
Study finds Australian forests store more carbon
10:25:16, 5 August 2008, Radio Australia News
A new study has found that Australia's untouched forests can store three times as much carbon as previously thought.
Beijing clear skies continue
22:20:15, 3 August 2008, Radio Australia News
China's concern that the Beijing Olympics would come to be known as the 'dirty games' is steadily disappearing as anti-pollution measures start to take effect.
Australian opposition may change climate policy timing
01:17:27, 1 August 2008, Radio Australia News
Australian opposition treasury spokesman Malcolm Turnbull says the coalition may have to change its emissions trading scheme policy in the lead-up to the next election, depending on what the government does.
Australian opposition to support carbon emissions trading
02:36:26, 31 July 2008, Radio Australia News
The Australian opposition's climate change spokesman says public wrangling over the coalition's stance on emissions trading has produced a 'sharper' policy.
Japan aiming for 80 per cent cut in carbon emissions
22:22:43, 29 July 2008, Radio Australia News
Japan's cabinet has adopted a plan to slash carbon emissions up to 80 per cent by 2050.
Australian opposition to discuss emissions trading
00:11:46, 29 July 2008, Radio Australia News
Australia's federal coalition begins two days of meetings in Canberra today, which will focus on the Opposition's climate change policy.
Australian PM visits Great Barrier Reef
19:25:19, 25 July 2008, Radio Australia News
Australia's prime minister, Kevin Rudd, has used a visit to the Great Barrier Reef off the north-east coast to promote his government's plans for a carbon emissions trading scheme.
90 billion barrels of oil in Arctic: scientists
22:13:17, 24 July 2008, Radio Australia News
American government scientists say there are 90 billion barrels of untapped oil and vast quantities of natural gas within the Arctic Circle.
New plan to reduce Australia's dependence on oil
19:16:51, 22 July 2008, Radio Australia News
A new plan to end Australia's dependence on oil is calling for better fuel efficiency standards, more investment in bio-fuels and the return of the electric car.
Australian PM urges support for carbon trading scheme
22:35:00, 17 July 2008, Radio Australia News
Australia's prime minister, Kevin Rudd, has urged the opposition to dispense with, what he calls, short term politics, and support the government's carbon trading scheme.
Australia trials plastic bag levy
20:28:57, 17 July 2008, Radio Australia News
Australian trade authorities say the trial of a plastic bag levy will help retailers assess the reaction of customers.
Australia to start carbon trading scheme in two years
22:35:26, 16 July 2008, Radio Australia News
The Australian government is sticking with its plan to start a carbon trading scheme in two years that will make electricity more expensive.
Australian government promises compensation over fuel emission scheme
14:22:26, 16 July 2008, Radio Australia News
The Australian government's plans to reduce carbon emissions will include compensation for motorists and big polluting companies.
Australia freight emissions expected to double
21:35:43, 14 July 2008, Radio Australia News
New figures reveal carbon emissions from the freight transport sector in Australia are expected to increase by 100 percent by 2020.
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