The North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) describes the final logging rules for public forests released last week as a disaster for oldgrowth forests, rainforest, river health, threatened species, Koalas, and global warming. The Governments’ decision remains as it was always intended, they have increased logging intensity throughout State Forests, established […]
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Green domestic heating. The race is on in the ‘war on climate change’.
Household heating systems are huge sources of carbon emissions, but many countries are showing how existing technologies can fix the problem Thermal imaging shows where bad insulation hikes carbon emissions By Michael Le Page WINTER is coming to the northern hemisphere. If you live in those climes, chances are you […]
“Scamming Australia for billions?” Gas Companies and royal ‘cronies’ in cahoots?
Senate Estimates confirmed last month that BG Group’s gas bonanza has delivered diddly-squat to Australia in tax – despite claims it would contribute “more than $1 billion”. Whistleblower, Simone Marsh, investigates the crony capitalism behind the Gladstone debacle; the history of how politicians kowtowed to the Duke of York-led British […]
Is this how to beat the drought?
Is Natural Sequence Farming the secret to restoring our water-starved continent? For more than a decade, two farmers have shown that parched landscapes can be revived. And finally Canberra’s listening. Australian Story By Winsome Denyer Photo: Before and After: Mulloon Creek in 1977 and 2015. (Supplied: The Mulloon Institute) […]
Our leaders are destroying our future. Wentworth must be a referendum on climate change
In the face of sustained government stupidity, many feel powerless. Voters in Wentworth can lead the way. By Richard Flanigan and Geoff Cousins If a bricklayer builds a wall that falls over 12 years later, killing someone, the bricklayer can be sued and even jailed. If a doctor finds some […]
“Government studies support the proposed Great Koala National Park” – Bellingen Environment Centre
‘Documents acquired by National Parks Association under freedom of information, shows the Government’s own experts have confirmed that the Great Koala National Park is the most important public land in NSW for koalas. “The documents confirm koala reserve proposals are right on the money, and confirms that the government’s reserves […]
Half the planet should be set aside for wildlife – to save ourselves
If we want to avoid mass extinctions and preserve the ecosystems all plants and animals depend on, governments should protect a third of the oceans and land by 2030 and half by 2050, with a focus on areas of high biodiversity. So say leading biologists in an editorial in the […]
Incredibly ambitious Ocean Cleanup project is launching this weekend
Big problems call for equally big solutions. That maxim will be put into practice this weekend when a multimillion dollar project called The Ocean Cleanup launches a giant floating vessel aimed at removing the largest accumulation of plastic in the world from a stretch of ocean referred to as the Great […]
Climate poll shows Morrison vulnerable as more voters back action
Number of Australians concerned about impact of climate change and wanting coal phased out rises By Katharine Murphy More than half of a survey of 1,756 voters believes Scott Morrison’s government needs to stay in the Paris agreement. Photograph: Dave Hunt/AAP A growing number of Australians are concerned about the […]
Filling the Sahara with solar and wind farms would double local rainfall
Covering the entire Sahara desert in solar panels and wind farms would not only help power the world, it would also improve the local climate. Rainfall would more than double and there would also be a modest increase in vegetation cover. Rain on the way? Image by FADEL SENNA/Getty By […]