ENVIRONMENT
Environment topics: Pollution
Flying beyond our means – air travel and the environment
A sense of things to come – smart sensors and the environment
Clean speed ahead with catalysts
Capturing the greenhouse gang
Quiet please! Fighting noise pollution
Which way ahead for hydrogen cars?
Making packaging greener – biodegradable plastics
Cleaner production – a solution to pollution?
Fuelling the 21st century
Enhanced greenhouse effect – a hot international issue
Local air pollution begins at home
Harnessing direct solar energy – a progress report
Earth's sunscreen – the ozone layer
Flying beyond our means – air travel and the environment
With aviation’s emissions growing faster than any other transport sector our impacts on the environment are heading sky high.
Sponsored by Dr Margaret Middleton.
A sense of things to come – smart sensors and the environment
Monitoring reef systems or catchments for environmental change can be a big job; sometimes too big for humans to handle without a bit of technological assistance. Now that assistance is increasingly available in the form of smart sensors.
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ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing |
Clean speed ahead with catalysts
Catalysts could help solve some of the world’s biggest pollution problems.
Sponsored by the bequest of J R Anderson, FAA.
Capturing the greenhouse gang
The search is on for ways to capture greenhouse gases and store them out of harm's way.
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Quiet please! Fighting noise pollution
Increases in the density of residential and commercial buildings, more traffic on the roads, and out-dated building regulations are all contributing to serious noise pollution in our cities.
Sponsored by the bequest of J S Anderson, FAA.
Which way ahead for hydrogen cars?
Rising petrol prices and diminishing oil supplies may drive motorists to demand alternative forms of fuel – such as hydrogen.
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the Australian Government's National Innovation Awareness Strategy |
Making packaging greener – biodegradable plastics
Biodegradable plastics made with plant-based materials have been available for many years. Their high cost, however, has meant they have never replaced traditional non-degradable plastics in the mass market. A new Australian venture is producing affordable biodegradable plastics that might change all that.
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the Australian Government's National Innovation Awareness Strategy |
Cleaner production – a solution to pollution?
What is cleaner production, and how can it help reduce pollution loads?
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Environment Protection Authority | |
the Australian Government's National Innovation Awareness Strategy |
Fuelling the 21st century
Fuel cells are an efficient and low-polluting way to generate power. The Australian Technology Park in Sydney has installed Australia's first commercial fuel cell.
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the Australian Government's National Innovation Awareness Strategy |
Enhanced greenhouse effect – a hot international issue
The Kyoto Protocol put the enhanced greenhouse effect in the spotlight. But what is the enhanced greenhouse effect and what are we doing about it?.
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Local air pollution begins at home
Local air pollution is a major health threat. It ranges in scale from cigarette smoke in a house to the photochemical smog that can cover a city.
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Harnessing direct solar energy – a progress report
We often hear about solar car challenges and solar heating, but will solar energy ever be a major energy source for industrial societies?
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the Australian Government's National Innovation Awareness Strategy |
Earth's sunscreen – the ozone layer
The ozone layer screens out the sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation. Can we reverse its destruction?
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the Australian Government's National Innovation Awareness Strategy |