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Sydney rainfall makes 2022 wettest year on record

Sydney has officially seen enough rainfall for meteorologists to declare 2022 the Australian city’s wettest year on record on Thursday, October 6. As more than...

Australia urged to roll out national climate health action plan

A coalition of top medical groups has called on the Australian government to urgently roll out a national climate health action plan. The Climate and...

Aussie scientists develop method to recycle methane

A team of chemists from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia has devised a new method of recycling potent fossil fuel,...

Groups accuse Australia of rebranding plastic waste as refuse-derived fuel

A global environmental health network and its members in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines have criticised Australia’s exportation of plastic waste that has...

Australia to provide $26m for maritime disaster prevention in Indian Ocean

Australia will provide 36.5 million Australian dollars (26 million U.S. dollars) over a five-year period to support maritime security and disaster management in the...

Researchers call for phasing out of cigarette sales in Australia

Researchers from Australia’s University of Queensland’s (UQ) School of Public Health have called for a restriction on tobacco sales in Australia as the next...

Surging waves threaten Aussie coastline, researchers warn

Ocean waves in the Southern Hemisphere are becoming more powerful, adding to Australia’s coastal erosion, according to an international oceanographic team. Dr Tom Mortlock, an...

Aussie scientists join global push for low emissions energy systems

Australia’s national science agency has recruited top energy research organisations in the global push to decarbonise electricity systems. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation...

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Expert outlines causes, measures to mitigate flood in Yobe

An environmental expert, Dr Babagana Boso, has called on stakeholders in Yobe to take urgent action to mitigate flood...
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WHO official dismisses rumors about new virus in Russia

The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) country office in Russia, Batyr Berdyklychev, has dismissed rumors about a...

Philippines expresses alarm over rising adult tobacco, vape use

The Philippines’ Department of Health (DOH) on Friday, April 4, 2025, expressed alarm over the increasing prevalence of adult...

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Expert outlines causes, measures to mitigate flood in Yobe

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