Waste Treatment & Environmental Management Feature Articles

A Southern Cross University law academic has teamed up with one of the world’s leading experts in environmental governance to discuss what would happen 'If Mother Nature Could Sue' ...

A low-cost new material that could lead to innovative technologies to tackle global warming has been discovered by scientists at The University of Nottingham.

A Flinders University researcher has been developing a cheaper and faster way of making large-scale plastic solar cells using a lamination technique, paving the way for a lucrative ...

The University of Nottingham in the UK is helping a small local business develop a unique technique for converting waste products from farms into energy.

Two of Australian's leading clean-up scientists have urged governments and policymakers to earmark a portion of the carbon tax to cleaning up the mess that may be left by the nation's ...

Murdoch University researchers have come up with a potential solution to one of sustainable energy's greatest challenges: power storage for use in non-generation times.

Perth has gained Australia's first electric car fast recharge network with 23 new fast-charge stations installed across the metro area, in a project led by researchers from The ...

Ship engine exhaust emissions make up more than a quarter of nitrogen oxide emissions generated in the Australian region according to a recently-published study by CSIRO and the ...

University of Sydney researchers will be looking for ways to slash one of the world's biggest single sources of energy consumption — the heating and cooling of buildings — at a ...

The political football that is carbon pricing could be deflated thanks to a scientist who has discovered a way to turn carbon dioxide emissions into stockfeed.

The rush to plant trees to offset carbon emissions could have a harmful impact on Australia's native environment if it is not very carefully managed, some of the nation's leading ...

A parched inland village in Peru has an innovative water resource thanks to a simple 'fog harvesting' system installed by two University of Sydney honours students.

A revolutionary sound-powered stove and electrical generator is currently being tested in the conditions it was designed for — rural villages in Nepal and Bangladesh.

Australia should take a lead in tackling the emerging global crisis in groundwater, according to one of the nation's most eminent water scientists.

Ziltek Pty Ltd and CSIRO recently announced the commercialisation of a new hand-held device for the rapid in-field analysis of petroleum contamination in soil.

Simple production process for lowering the reflectance of solar panels lends itself to commercialisation.

Griffith University's Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre has been awarded $1 million in research funding by the state government to develop production processes for a silicon ...

Curtin University researchers will develop new technology for reducing carbon dioxide emissions after receiving $1 million of State Government funding.

The Carbon Tax is a good first step in addressing Australia’s high carbon emissions but we really need to introduce the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in 2015 for the carbon price ...

For a country with so much sunlight, some might think Australia has been slow to adapt its electricity generation mix to include solar power.