It takes a lot of water to feed us, but recycled water could help.

It takes a lot of water to feed us, but recycled water could help.

Author: Rachel Carey, Jennifer Sheridan and Seona Candy
Source: The Conversation
Date: 7th of March 2016
 Australians eat a lot of water – the water that is used to produce our food. New findings from our Foodprint Melbourne study estimate that more than 475 litres of water is used to grow each person’s food every day. This is just the irrigation water used to grow our food. We consume much mo...
Eight million tonnes of plastic are going into the ocean each year

Eight million tonnes of plastic are going into the ocean each year

Author: Britta Denise Hardesty & Chris Wilcox
Source: The Conversation
Date: 15 November, 2015
  You might have heard the oceans are full of plastic, but how full exactly? Around 8 million metric tonnes go into the oceans each year, according to the first rigorous global estimate published in Science today. That’s equivalent to 16 shopping bags full of plastic for every metre of ...
Great Pacific Garbage Patch puts fish on 'plastic diet'

Great Pacific Garbage Patch puts fish on ‘plastic diet’

Author: ABC
Source: Australia News Network
Date: 17 June 2014
Researchers are about to head to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to spend a month analysing the huge build-up of rubbish that's polluting the ocean. The patch, also known as the Pacific Trash Vortex, was discovered in 1988 by Captain Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Institute in Califo...
Scientists turn manure into water

Scientists turn manure into water

Author: Science Alert Staff
Source: Science Alert
Date: 02 June, 2014
Would you drink water made of cow manure? Could you tell the difference? Researchers have developed technology that turns cow poop into drinkable water.   Ten years ago researchers at Michigan State University started working on a technology that would turn cow manure into clean water a...
This edible water blob could replace plastic bottles

This edible water blob could replace plastic bottles

Source: Springwise.com
Date: 10 April, 2014
Plastic water bottles have long been recognised as a big problem for the environment, so much so that San Francisco recently banned the sale of bottled water on city property. But a new invention from a group of UK students could offer a solution. Ooho! is a spherical membrane for carrying water...
Plane Search Shows World's Oceans Are Full of Trash

Plane Search Shows World’s Oceans Are Full of Trash

Author: Laura Parker
Source: National Geographic
Date: 07 April, 2014
Before Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing, sea trash was not a global headliner. But as hundreds of objects sighted off the Australian coast as possible aircraft debris turn out to be discarded fishing equipment, cargo container parts, or plastic shopping bags, a new narrative is emerging ...
Fish may end up in hot water as climate warms the ocean

Fish may end up in hot water as climate warms the ocean

Author: Michael Burrows
Source: The Conversation
Date: 11 February, 2014
The rate at which the world has warmed over the past 50 years and is likely to continue to do so in the future poses problems for life on land and in the ocean. Most species have a defined range of temperatures within which they can live – and when temperatures exceed the upper limit for a p...
Common chemical kills coral reefs

Common chemical kills coral reefs

Author: ABC
Source: ABC
Date: 29 January, 2014
A CHEMICAL FOUND IN MANY soaps, laundry detergents and cosmetics is killing young coral reefs at concentrations commonly found in the environment, according to a newstudy. Corals, which provide habitat for a rich array of fish and other marine life, are threatened worldwide. The new study is the fi...
The world has fresh water, but it’s full of poison

The world has fresh water, but it’s full of poison

Author: Peter Fisher
Source: The Conversation
Date: 19 December, 2013
Images of the typhoon-ravaged Philippines were terribly confronting, vividly conveying what an angry planet can dish up. But amid the destruction and death, an important point was largely missed: the world’s freshwater supplies are being degraded by a seemingly endless sequence of extreme events. ...
Slime and poo: making energy and treating waste

Slime and poo: making energy and treating waste

Author: Christopher Doyle
Source: ABC
Date: 03 December, 2013
THINK OF THE WORD "raceway" and images of fast cars and chequered flags probably spring to mind. But for Associate Professor Tryg Lundquist, an environmental engineer at California State Polytechnic University, the term conjures up a very different image; one of a green algal slurry flowing thro...

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