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
The North Eastern Forestry Alliance (NEFA) today said the Liberal Party’s commitment of $6 million to protect Koalas in north-east NSW’s and south-east Queensland is too little too late. “If the Morrison Government really wanted to do something about Koalas then they would amend their Regional Forest Agreements to protect […]
New polling from a respected foreign policy think tank underscores the point that 2019 is the climate change election, with a majority of Australians saying global warming is a critical threat. By Katharine Murphy The poll undertaken for Lowy says 64% of adults rank climate change number one on a […]