The scientific advice is clear; the world is tracking towards a climate catastrophe. Shamefully, the Australian government is contributing to the risk of a catastrophe with its support for fossil fuels, especially with its plan for a long-term expansion of gas production. This is a major policy failure. Australia is highly prone to extreme weather Continue reading »
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A number of new studies highlight an embarrassing fact: Australia is playing a not insubstantial and growing role in slowing the reduction of global carbon emissions. By diligently increasing the development of unwanted new gas and coal fields we are only adding to Trump’s exhortation ‘drill baby drill’ with ‘drill mate drill’. Reversing these policies Continue reading »
Secretaries of State allow passenger numbers to soar by 38% at business airport, despite objections from locals and climate campaigners
An acoustic experiment reveals that spooky forest sounds may come from above.
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The five activists face the "longest ever" jail terms for peaceful protest, and international NGOs have rallied behind them
Tamsin Mather on her 3 greatest revelations while writing Adventures in Volcanoland.
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Spaceship Earth remains a compelling metaphor for our collective reality. Unfortunately,
our ship looks as if it may have been made by an inter-galactic branch of Boeing. Continue reading »
The strange mushroom that puffs life into forests around the world.
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“Forget 1.5C and 2C. Let's hope - if we fight really hard - we can keep the rise this side of 3C."
The hole in the Antarctic’s ozone layer is recovering but very slowly. How to eat seafood sustainably, restoring our disappearing mangroves and cemeteries for the living. Has the hole in the ozone layer been fixed? I was puzzled by a headline in the New York Times that read ‘A Global Push Fixed the Ozone Hole. Continue reading »