A low carbon future for WA
The long-awaited Western Australian Climate Policy was released earlier this week; it sets out the State Government’s plan to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, and a climate-resilient, […]
Category Archives: environment
Turtle Island
Turtle Island is a place 1,900 km way up north of Perth in Cone Bay, and approximately 200 km north east of Broome. It is a beautiful little island that […]
Dry: free from moisture or liquid; not wet or moist (see Perth).
As the mercury in our thermometers here in spring-y Perth start to expand, and the almost-summer warm air starts to drift into town, the (sort of) rains of our winter […]
Hotham-Williams all wRAPped up
Urbaqua has had the opportunity to work closely with the Peel Harvey Catchment Council (PHCC) this last year on a number of partnership projects monitoring and assessing the health of […]
Wharf St smart park now online
The ribbon has officially been cut and the turtles have been released at the Wharf Street Basin Next Generation Community Park in Cannington, and the City of Canning‘s first smart […]
In This Together, 20 years on
Twenty years ago, more than a quarter of a million people walked across the Sydney Harbour Bridge calling for change and a more reconciled Australia. And in recent days another […]
The Current – Environmental Condition in Oz
It’s easy to lose sight of all the old issues we used to pay so much attention to before COVID-19 became a primary focus for most of us. But while […]
Positives of a pandemic?
The impact of the raging COVID-19 pandemic should not be understated, with half a million people infected, tens of thousands dying from the virus and epicentres shifting around us. It […]
BOM drops latest data review
Whew… what a hot summer… isn`t it? If you thought that the weather has been hotter than usual, it turns out you’re right. According to the Bureau of Meteorology’s (BoM) […]
Ranford Pool – planting for protection
In the rural and beautiful Shire of Boddington, approximately 120 km south-east of Perth, runs the tranquil Hotham River. The Hotham River is one of the major upstream waterways which […]
