ENVIRONMENT

The cat is out of the bag, as more evidence continues to emerge proving that clean-up workers at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in Japan deliberately covered up high radiation readings at the order of their superiors.

Using the half glass point of view, Opposition leader Tony Abbott insisted on Monday that despite recent survey results showing more acceptance of the carbon tax, many Aussies still dislike the $23 per tonne carbon price.

Residents of South Canberra are opposing the moves of the National Capital Authority (NCA) to create an embassy row at a parkland in the suburb of Yarralumla. The NCA is eyeing the land on Stirling Park near the Old Canberra Brickworks, which residents said should be preserved.

A second survey in less than one week and barely a month since the Gillard government started to collect the controversial carbon price of $23 per tonne would put a smile on Prime Minister Julia Gillard's face and a frown on Opposition leader Tony Abbott's. The report by Nielsen, released Monday and two days short of the one-month mark of the levy, said opposition to the carbon tax has been easing. Similar findings were reported by the Climate Institute last week.

Western Australia (WA) banned on Wednesday coalmining in the wine and tourism region of Margaret River. The prohibition was made by WA Mines and Petroleum Minister Norman Moore who declared a no coalmining zone which covers 230 square kilometers.

More information is the key for the federal government of Australia to reverse the voter dislike for the carbon tax, a study by the Climate Institute said.

The city sees its new program as a way to help animals and people, but critics say dogs are being put at risk.

The wet weather conditions in the summer months at UK are filling the countryside with some amazing splendor, but at the expense of the failing crop harvests.

Huge chunk of Greenland glacier breaks off and poses major environmental challenges.

While a new report released on Monday acknowledges that the carbon trading scheme is needed for Australia to meet long-term targets that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it is not sufficient to cut the cost of clean technologies to generate sufficient electricity and replace coal.

Los Angeles Zoo officials insist that when a big male chimpanzee killed a three-month-old baby chimp last week, it was just, so to speak, one of those things.

Many Australian businesses, particularly those outside the resources sector, are suffering from revenue and profit squeeze due to increasing cost of energy, expected to worsen with the imposition of the carbon tax on July 1 and huge investments in energy networks.

While more Australian men are shifting to careers within the lucrative resources sector, there are also a rising number of Aussie women who are venturing into Outback jobs.

South Korea earned praises this time as it hinted the likelihood of backing down from its earlier announced plan of resuming whale hunting in pursuit of scientific research.

On the second week of the implementation of the carbon tax, Treasurer Wayne Swan said the $23 per tonne carbon price is now a reality which Australians would have to judge its impact on their lives.

Despite the threat of a $1.1 million fine from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), some Aussie entities continue to gouge residents by blaming the two-week-old carbon tax for large increase in prices.

Marine scientists from different parts of the world meeting in Cairns this week are urging the Gillard government to step up protection of the Great Barrier Reef.

The first week of the implementation of the controversial carbon tax ended with an announcement by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) that it investigated and sanctioned two solar panel producers.

While the Opposition, the New South Wales government and some businesses such as bakery chain Brumby's are blaming the carbon tax for rise in prices, Australia's retail industry is rejoicing because the carbon compensation caused the sector's growth rate to hit a two-year high.

In spite of promises by Coalition leader Tony Abbott to repeal the carbon tax if the Opposition wins in the 2013 election, big polluters in Australia believe otherwise.

Australian bakery chain Brumby's apologised on Wednesday after being caught by regulators attempting to make more dough by blaming the carbon tax for price increases. Brumby's parent company, Retail Food Group Limited, apologised for the unacceptable error of judgment.

The carbon tax, despite the support by some large Australian businesses, continues to be the favourite whipping boy of the Opposition and even some state governments.

This morning, several days after the first shocking reports of a young graduate student being attacked and seriously injured by chimpanzees at a sanctuary in South Africa, the story remains at the top of the news around the world. This morning I counted 1,321 stories from just the last 24 hours.

The New Zealand earthquake Tuesday night was the biggest hit the northern part of the country “in a long time,” but the impact had been limited due to depth and distance offshore.

Scientists who are studying the Higgs boson hinted that they are getting closer to discovering the last piece of Higgs boson. The Higgs boson discovery would mean that they are closing in to one of the most important scientific discoveries of the last century.

On the second day of the implementation of the controversial carbon tax, the Labor-led government of Australia scored three points against the Opposition after three major Aussie companies aired their support for the measure.

Like what it has done to the Australian Parliament, the carbon tax has also divided Aussies as groups both opposed and favoured the $23 per tonne carbon price which started to be collected Sunday, July 1.

Divers and explorers of the UFO Baltic Sea claims that all of their electric equipments were disabled whenever they try to approach the UFO Baltic sea location. Most of their electric equipments were not working when they try to get a closer look of the said object.

A question if due process was followed was the basis in the Western Australian government's halt of the release of the Environmental Protection Authority's (EPA) approval of the $40-billion James Price Point gas project.