Botany Bay and Catchment Alliance

9 October 2007

Media release  Contact: Andrew Macintosh (02) 6162 4146 or 0403 804 540

Shipping’s falling market share is making greenhouse emissions worse: New Report from The Australia Institute (more…)

An international working group of scientists, researchers and public health policy professionals (The BioInitiative Working Group) has released its report on electromagnetic fields (EMF) and health. They document serious scientific concerns about current limits regulating how much EMF is allowable from power lines, cell phones, and many other sources of EMF exposure in daily life.

The report concludes the existing standards for public safety are inadequate to protect public health.  Full report at http://www.bioinitiative.org/
 

Climate Change in the Sydney Metropolitan Catchments  This CSIRO report has just been circulated by the Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management Authority.

A survey of aircraft noise and its impact on self-assessed quality of life was conducted in Sydney by A/Prof Deborah Black and Prof John Black of UNSW. Subjects (aged 15 - 87) chronically exposed to aircraft noise have odds of 2.61 61 (95% CI 1.42 - 4 .80) of having stress, and those chronic noise stress individuals have odds of 2.74 (95% CI 1.55 - 4.84) of having hypertension compared with those without chronic noise stress. New research design - a novel intervention based on meditation - is outlined for application by environmental managers wishing to be more pro-active in embracing health impacts of airport operations…..read full paper…

The latest research on plants recorded by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander in a paper by Doug Benson(Botanic Gardens Trust) and Georgina Eldershaw(NPWS) Link to paper

Report by DPI in 2002 on Introduced Marine Pest Species in Botany Bay 

The Invasive Species Council wants stronger laws on invasives, tighter quarantine controls, regular monitoring of habours for marine invaders, and Rapid Response Teams to eliminate new invaders.  You can support the Council by joining them: full details at www.invasives.org.au For information on Global Ballast issues:  http://globallast.imo.org/