IT WAS billed as the climate change election, but the climate lost. Last month, Australians re-elected the Liberal-National coalition government, a shock win over the opposition Labor party. By James Mitchell Crow The government has been seen as slow to act on climate change, while Labor offered an ambitious carbon […]
Report from India: Tracing Gautam Adani’s ruthless ambition By Hartosh Bal In 2017, an extraordinary board meeting was convened at the offices of Economic and Political Weekly (EPW ), a venerable Indian publication with a reputation for solidly researched articles by Indian academics. Two years earlier, in a bid to spruce […]
Forget 10,000 steps a day. Modern sports science and evolutionary biology now tell us how much exercise the human body really needs By Herman Pontzer THE Spine Challenger is a brutal race. It claws its way along the toughest 174 kilometres of the Pennines, the geological backbone of England, in […]
The Coalition has been re-elected to government, and after six years in office it has not created any effective policies for reducing greenhouse emissions. Does that mean the Australian climate change debate is stuck in 2013? Not exactly. By Michael J. I. Brown While Australia still lacks effective climate change […]
Critics of the Green New Deal ask if we can afford it. But we can’t afford not to: our civilisation is at stake Advocates of the Green New Deal say there is great urgency in dealing with the climate crisis and highlight the scale and scope of what is required […]
New Zealand’s latest budget, unveiled last week, is being touted as the first in a Western country to put well-being over economic pressures. By Ruby Prosser Scully The country’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern promised billions of dollars in additional funds to address mental health problems, suicide and child poverty. Almost […]
Putting people in their place | Discussions of population’s impact on Earth have been off limits, but scientists and conservationists are challenging the taboo and politicians must do the same. By Graham Lawton One occupational hazard of writing about the environment is readers criticising my failure to mention the P-word. No, […]
Fracking operations could switch from using water to CO2 By Adam Vaughan Could a greenhouse gas be the answer to making fracking less controversial? Counterintuitive as the idea might seem, Chinese researchers claim that using carbon dioxide instead of water for fracturing rocks could be a greener way of extracting […]
Independent candidate for Cowper, Rob Oakeshott has described as madness a last minute admission from the National Party that they are considering damming Mid North Coast rivers. “Desperation dams on our rivers are surely the nail in the coffin of 117 years of National Party control. The community must use […]
A very handy pdf produced by Science and Technology Australia on the science and technology policies of the Coalition, ALP and The Greens can be found at the following link: https://scienceandtechnologyaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Election-2019-Science-and-Technology-Priorities-web-FINAL.pdf?utm_source=2019+Fedeal+Election+contacts&utm_campaign=7dac4c5bf6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_04_03_11_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_35f9ff3cb1-7dac4c5bf6-588075493