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Solar Power Australia

9 April, 2013   
Published by Samantha in General, Habitat, Household, Industry, News, Pollution, Scientific / Research / Environmental

Australian solar power has reached a major milestone with the number of residential systems installed in the country surpassing a million in total. Figures from the Clean Energy Regulator indicate that as of March, over a million Australia homes had been equipped with solar power panels on their roofs, providing power to around 2.5 million [...]

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19 Year Old Leads the way on Ocean Clean Up

25 March, 2013   
Published by Samantha in Beautiful Wave Makers, General, Habitat, News, Pollution, Scientific / Research / Environmental

19-year-old Boyan Slat has unveiled plans to create an Ocean Cleanup Array that could remove 7,2500,000 tons of plastic waste from the world’s oceans. The device consists of an anchored network of floating booms and processing platforms that could be dispatched to garbage patches around the world. Instead of moving through the ocean, the array [...]

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Red Tide Algae Bloom Killing Record Number of Manatees

14 March, 2013   
Published by Samantha in Climate Change, General, Habitat, News, Pollution

MIAMI, March 11 (Reuters) – A red tide algae bloom has killed a record 174 manatees so far this year off Florida’s southwest Gulf Coast, authorities said on Monday. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said it was the highest number of red-tide-related manatee deaths in any single calendar year. The previous record was [...]

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Shell Abandons Arctic Drilling in 2013

28 February, 2013   
Published by Samantha in General, Indigenous, News, Pollution

Royal Dutch Shell announced Wednesday that it will not drill in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Alaska this year, declaring a cease-fire in one of the nation’s fiercest political battles over energy development and environmental protection. Shell Oil President Marvin Odum described the decision not to conduct exploratory drilling in the Chukchi and [...]

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Plastic Packaging Harming Brain & Nerve Cell Growth in Babies

26 February, 2013   
Published by Samantha in Beautiful Wave Makers, General, News, Pollution, Scientific / Research / Environmental

A chemical widely used in plastic packaging and food containers may be toxic to the central nervous system by interfering with a key gene involved in the development of nerve cells, a study suggests. Scientists have found that bisphenol A (BPA), which is used in a variety of consumer products ranging from fizzy-drink cans to [...]

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