Waste Treatment & Environmental Management Feature Articles

CSIRO wants to work with more SMEs to help them overcome environmental hurdles.

Although European countries have been quick to pick up wind power, Australia is a relative newcomer to the concept.

If the Federal Government is to reduce carbon emissions, it needs to learn from its previous errors in designing the failed Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) of 2009-10, according to ...

What are we ever going to do with all the accumulated amounts of plastic waste?

The Australian government claims an ongoing commitment to developing renewable energy resources, but there is little evidence that its words are having much of an impact on industry. ...

Toyota Motor has agreed to develop and deploy telematic services, including its smart-grid technology for running electric systems more efficiently, on Microsoft's cloud-based Azure ...

Australia currently has no organised, long-term way of monitoring levels of commercial fungicides in soil and waterways, leading environmental scientists have cautioned.

A meat processor and dairy manufacturer are among sixteen Australian manufacturers going green to tackle climate change and ensure a healthier future for all Australians.

New technologies like hybrid engines, electric vehicles and light-weighting are paving the way for Australia to become a world-leader in green car manufacturing.

West Australian scientists will put pig welfare and production under the microscope in a bid to help the environment and consumer health.

Ants and termites have a significant positive impact on crop yields in dryland agriculture, according to a paper published recently in the journal 'Nature Communications' by scientists ...

With petrol prices recently hitting $1.60 per litre in some parts of Australia, the days of sub $1.00 per litre petrol appear long gone.

Transforming waste plant material into a sustainable, low-emission fuel for the world’s cars, trucks and planes is the aim of a new research collaboration between CSIRO and leading ...

It's not often that worries over interest rates are upstaged by another factor in consumers' thinking, but the furious debate over a carbon price appears to be too much to bear.

Electricity costs have steadily risen over the past five years, with prices expected to increase dramatically in the near future.

Adding a new dimension to the climate change debate, a discussion paper recently published by researchers at the University of South Australia, suggests that we may actually run ...

Most topsoil in Australia, what hasn’t been blown or washed away, is biologically dead, yet the use of organic compost in the intensive agriculture sector still remains in the "too ...

Exploiting the cane toad's biggest weakness - a thirst for water - could be the key to stopping its march across northern Australia, according to new research.

Relatively harmless microbes which pass through water treatment systems could be allowing dangerous bacteria, such as Legionella, to reproduce in drinking water supplies, researchers ...

A new study has revealed that human-induced changes in the flow of the Murray River has led to mass weed invasion and reduced biodiversity in wetlands along the riverbank, highlighting ...