Environmentalists suing state government over threatened species
Tom Arup Environmentalists have launched Supreme Court action suing the state government over a failure to draw up plans for the survival of threatened species.
Warming to take longer in reaching forecast levels
Tom Arup The rate of global warming caused by rising greenhouse gas levels could be slower than previously thought, but will still result in the same eventual higher temperatures as earlier forecast, new...
VicForests attacked over logging plan
Tom Arup Victoria's state-owned timber company will reduce logging by 25 per cent in the bushfire-ravaged mountain ash forests of the central highlands -- but will wait until mid-2017 to make the shift.
Australia seeks to limit ocean 'geoengineering'
Tom Arup Australia has launched a bid to stop the commercial use of a controversial ''geoengineering'' technique that involves dumping iron into the ocean in a bid to counter the effects of man-made climate...
Australia bid to stop 'ocean fertilisation'
Tom Arup Australia has launched a bid to stop the commercial use of a controversial ''geo-engineering'' technique that involves dumping iron into the ocean to counter the effects of man-made climate change.
Coal investors face risks as world cuts emissions
Tom Arup Companies are sitting on Australian coal resources likely to generate an extra 150 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases.
Coal producers ignore policy on carbon
Tom Arup Companies are sitting on Australian coal resources likely to generate an extra 150 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases.
20th century 'hottest in 1400 years'
Tom Arup Warming over the 20th century produced the hottest global average temperatures in 1400 years, a major scientific research project has found.
Carbon price could fall after European vote
Tom Arup Labor has conceded it will revise revenue projections from its carbon scheme after a key vote to shore up the struggling European carbon market failed, triggering a price crash that will affect...
Price crash could tear a hole in future budgets
Tom Arup The government has conceded it will revise revenue projections from its carbon scheme.
I love them, but we can't have them everywhere: Premier on wind farms
Tom Arup Premier Denis Napthine has declared his personal love for wind turbines, but says his government's restrictions to where they can be built won't change.
Litter data recycles case for bottle and can refund
Tom Arup Bottles and cans are a significantly smaller proportion of litter in South Australia than NSW or Victoria, a result conservationists say is evidence the state's 10ยข refund for recyclable containers...
Rooftop solar burns past 1-million mark
Tom Arup Australia has reached 1 million rooftop solar systems on homes and businesses.
Asia catching on to benefits from cutting gas emissions
Tom Arup Australia's neighbours in Asia - especially China - are emerging as the countries best placed to prosper from moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions, an international study has found.
Rainbow Warrior in town on reef mission
Tom Arup The famed protest ship, Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior, has docked in Melbourne as the green group ramps up a campaign against coal development on the Great Barrier Reef.
River researchers may face axe
Tom Arup The key scientific centre studying the environmental health of the Murray-Darling is preparing to cut staff and research in the wake of state government budget cuts to the authority overseeing the...
Fears for Snowy River as scientists ditched for industry-funded group
Ben Cubby, Tom Arup The future of environmental flows into the Snowy River are in doubt after the NSW government released a plan to replace its independent scientific committee with an industry-funded advisory group.
National park boundary redrawn for resort
Tom Arup and Henrietta Cook The Baillieu government has redrawn the boundaries of the Alpine National Park to allow the Falls Creek resort to expand.
Plants soaking up a third of carbon
Tom Arup Landscape soaked up third of national carbon dioxide emissions over past two decades.
High price of Melbourne's hot weather
Tom Arup Hot weather in Melbourne is set to cost the city on average $46.5 million a year to the middle of the century, unreleased economic research has found.
