Another report, another plan and yet still, we are as far from political consensus over energy and the environment as ever. By Ian Verrender, ABC Continue Reading
Science/Environment
Australia’s spending on research now far below OECD average
Universities Australia says government and business have ignored economy’s ‘backbone’ Australia has fallen well behind the rest of the developed world when it comes to Continue Reading
Groundhog Day is back: ‘climate science and charities under attack’
“I’m often asked if it gets tiring standing up to the naysayers. And while there are days when I contemplate with tired resignation facing yet Continue Reading
SCU’s National Marine Science Centre says no to plastic waste
Worldwide each year hundreds of thousands of marine creatures are casualties of our plastic obsession, suffering – and dying – after inadvertently eating plastic or Continue Reading
Bellingen Council votes to express logging concerns to State Government
Five per cent of Bellingen Shire’s forests could be clear-felled and almost 20 per cent subjected to a doubling in harvest intensity if new logging Continue Reading
The hemp house is almost here.
A Perth-based company has found a new way of processing the versatile plant and has developed building panels to create affordable, carbon negative housing. Mirreco chief Continue Reading
Bags, Bans and Bacteria – “Bugger Woolies and Coles.”
Come Saturday morning the phone will ring and Mum will be on the other end. At 90, she’s still sharp upstairs but the years have Continue Reading
Finally we can power the planet on renewables alone – here’s how
Ditching fossil fuels to go 100 per cent renewable is a dream within reach – thanks to new tech that keep things humming even when Continue Reading
Farmers being pushed to brink by worsening drought.
Liverpool plains farmer Megan Kuhn says cows are being slaughtered because there is no way of feeding them after years of extreme weather by Lisa Continue Reading
The Great Koala National Park proposal: 26 years in the making – Part 1
The Great Koala National Park (GKNP) is an idea that has been floating about since mid-2014 when it was picked up by then NSW Opposition Continue Reading
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