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1. ‘The Forgotten Pacific’ shows islanders’ fight against climate change

   shrinking, extreme drought prevails, and water is a precious commodity. Rising sea levels are consuming the ...

2. Climate, health experts sound warnings over coal and gas expansion

   coast to stop the project. He said environment minister Tanya Plibersek could use the water trigger to ...

3. Yidaki Magarran: Marking the three-year occupation at the Adani mine

   changes the patterns of water. Together our sounds will sing out to Country that we are here to protect ... it,” McAvoy said. “We’ll come together and raise the vibrations of water, with a clear message: we need ... to protect the water for future generations. “Many Tribal nations, across the continent, face the ...

4. Award-winning novel confronts racism and trauma with humour and compassion

   government armed the Sri Lankan Army as they wanted to build a deep sea-water port on Tamil land. The book ...

5. Whitehaven Coal sells stake to Japanese steel companies

   in a shaft furnace to reduce the iron oxides. Only water is produced as the by-product. Known as ...

6. Climate activists Rise Up outside Kirribilli House

   scott free! Like the flood waters and the flames, we rise up,” said the AYCC. While communities face ...

7. You’ll never look at a loaf of bread the same way again

   stabilisers, emulsifiers A typical supermarket-bought multigrain bread loaf contains wheat flour, water and ... yeast, salt and water. For those who enjoy a morning cup of coffee with a snack, van Tulleken ...

8. Traditional Owners take Qld gov’t to court over Adani’s coal mine

   waters)". The case will set an important precedent for human rights in Queensland. W&J Cultural ... extraction and have undergone a subsequent decline in water volume. Data from Adani/Bravus showed ... "hundreds of instances" where water quality or groundwater levels declined at a rate above approved ...

9. Korean community protests Fukushima waste plan

   Company (TEPCO) to release 1.3 million tonnes of radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear ... constructing an underwater tunnel to divert the radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, beginning in the ... northern summer — the cheapest option. It would be safer to store the radioactive waste water on land, ...

10. Bruce Shillingsworth: ‘First Nations people need control over water flow’

    South Wales towns that have been badly affected by a lack of water in the rivers, as part of the Yaama ... Nations people need to be given back the power to make key decisions about water flow and the rivers. ... government and greedy corporations that we have had enough and we need water back in the rivers.” Speaking in ...

11. Menindee Aboriginal resident: ‘Water is the source of our survival’

    Environment Coral Wynter Jim McIlroy Water Darling River Murray Darling River system Menindee ... climate change, but more significantly by corruption of the water allocation system from the Darling River ... years. Wilson told us: "Many people don't fully understand the depth of the water crisis we are ...

12. Rising Tide activists stop coal train, seek support for more civil disobedience

    children have recently died from drinking brackish water. Richard Denniss from The Australia Institute gave ...

13. NSW rivers crisis: A ‘perfect storm’ of drought, theft and corruption

    Water Environment Coral Wynter Water For Rivers Corruption Bourke “The problem is mismanagement of ... people travelled through western NSW towns that have been badly affected by a lack of water in the ... Shillingsworth. Discussing the causes of the lack of water, Thompson explained: “There is a water crisis. It is ...

14. Save the Burrup, Songlines and Murujuga rock art

    plants. Our water is getting contaminated; our air is getting contaminated by these companies. We have ...

15. Citizens inquiry reports on Baarka River, Menindee Lakes

    Environment Coral Wynter Barka/Darling River system Water The Australian Peoples’ Tribunal (APT) ... Gwynn MacCarrick, Manav Satiga, Mary Graham and Ross Williams. Quentin Grafton, from the Water Justice Hub at the ... infrastructure. Dams do not increase the amount of water available, but lose water through evaporation. By ...

16. Wangan and Jagalingou man Coedie MacAvoy: ‘No more propping up coal miners’

    �����DZ�����Գ���Գ�-�ǷɲԱ�� water corporation] Sunwater to court. I envision that it will get to the point, where [Adani] just ...

17. Is NSW deliberating shutting down towns to mine underground?

    Environment Coral Wynter Rivers in crisis Water Wilcannia “It seems that towns in western New ... Hill’s water has always come from the Menindee Lakes, a gigantic lake system in the middle of a semi-arid ... desert that contains water bodies more than 15 kilometres wide. In 1949, infrastructure works modified ...

18. Rylstone communities fight NSW government push to mine coal

    agriculture and tourism would all be adversely affected. Coal mining would also impact the pristine waters of ... out as much coal as fifteen Adani-sized mines. Coal mines need water, which would be drawn from ... catchment areas and upland swamps, and deplete ground water. The proposed mine will cut into the grassy ...

19. Spring into Pilliga protest against coal seam gas

    Gas Environment Coral Wynter Santos Pilliga Forest Great Artesian Basin saline water Pilliga State ... consequences of mining CSG in the Pilliga, is the destruction of the fresh water supply. The Pilliga Forest ... level, the sandstone was covered by a layer of marine sedimentary rock, which trapped water in the ...

20. Torres Strait Islanders say: ‘Our Islands, Our Home’

    a result of climate-induced drought and hotter seasons, and fresh water wells are contaminated by salt ... water. The meeting was told how Torres Strait culture includes women, after giving birth, placing their ...

21. COVID-19: Gov’t negligence puts First Nations communities at risk

    that essential items such as medication, food boxes, masks and water supplies should be distributed by ... COVID-19 can be made here. Follow Maari Ma  for updates. Rachel Evans, Paul Oboohov and Coral Wynter are Water ...

22. Farmers discuss threats from ‘gas-fired recovery’

    alternatives to gas for energy needs. The impact on the water supply to farms could be catastrophic if gas ... not taken into account. The loss of water assets is of most concern because of its potential ... about moving from a linear to a circular economy where food waste, water overuse, packaging and ...

23. Pilliga: Eyewitness from a forest under threat from Santos

    company, to dispose of in a toxic hole inside the Pilliga Forest. “The brine waste water is intended to be ... two waste water dams and a large storage tank. “Officially, there are 10,000 litres of waste here,” ... also crack and fail. The waste water includes radioactive uranium.” Another potential catastrophic ...

24. Santos gas project opponents overwhelm NSW planning body

    the water experts and Santos’ modelling of the connection between the Pilliga sandstone, the Great ... water. No waste depot in Narrabri is licensed to take this liquid brine and hazardous waste cannot be ... contained in landfill, as rain will allow it to seep back into underground water supplies, Khan said. The ...

25. Broken Hill: ‘Give us our river back’

    headlines and farmers struggling to survive, the water crisis is deepening. But the current crisis has ... decisions on its future. We have to return the water to the rivers. “We must stop the mass extractions of ... water from the Barwon-Darling river system. We need to stop the NSW government's system of ...

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