| Fires: New Wildfire Threat
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| Monday, 09 February 2009 11:50 |
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 The Western Cape is currently experiencing nice hot weather but put together with the high winds that have been predicted by the Weather Bureau it is potentially a disastrous mix causing a dire warning to be issued.
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 Some biofuels cause more health problems than petrol and diesel, according to scientists who have calculated the health costs associated with different types of fuel.
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 “Waves are already concentrated solar energy”, says Michael Ottaviano, who leads a Western Australian firm that is developing a method to convert wave power into electricity. He believes that wave power has the potential to supply all of Australia’s needs many times over.
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 Not long ago the majority of surfboards made of polyurethane were considered to be un-recyclable.
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 This week on the 2nd February was World Wetlands Day which is celebrated on this date every year as it marks the day the Convention on Wetlands was signed in 1971. This details the conservations of the Wetlands and how it should be used in order to do this.
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 Production of solar panels is set to change after researchers from the Australian National University, solar company Spark Solar Australia, and Finnish materials company Braggone Oy, set up a three year project to produce a cheaper and more efficient panel.
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| Forests replanted from the air
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| Saturday, 31 January 2009 08:50 |
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 Forests devastated by fire or illegal logging could soon be replanted from the air, if tests of a technology being developed in the UK prove successful.
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 The Western Cape has set a target for the province to have 15% of energy from renewable sources by 2014 and by the same year to have a 15% reduction on the 2000 levels of carbon.
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 The Business Day reported that a recent survey of 181 small water treatment works in SA found that 28% of the works did not comply with the faecal coliforms standard - an indicator of contamination from human faeces.
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 The SumbandilaSat Science Satellite is due to be launched on the 25th March from a submarine in Baikonur, Kazakhstan by the South African Department of Science and Technology.
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 PRESS RELEASE: British Airways today unveiled a radical new environmental target of halving net CO2 emissions by 2050.
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PRESS RELEASE: British Airways today unveiled a radical new environmental target of halving net CO2 emissions by 2050.
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 On the 23rd of January A Japanese-made H-2A rocket carrying the world’s first satellite dedicated solely to monitoring the world’s greenhouse gas emissions was successfully launched.
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