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Attacking patents is a way to halt progress on climate accord
A hundred countries are meeting in Accra this week in negotiations for a new climate change agreement after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012....
Tariffs, not patents, hurt low-carbon innovation
A hundred countries are meeting in Accra, Ghana, this week in negotiations for a new climate change agreement after the Kyoto Protocol expires in...
Case of the warm and fuzzy
Three claims have been repeated so often they are accepted as fact: global temperatures are rising, we have less rainfall and so water is becoming...
Go Gorillas: Endangered Critters Fight Back
In between all the gloomy news about the global environment, it is nice to hear some good news every so often. Last week the humpback...
Battling green noise
"Beyond Petroleum" is a strange slogan for a company that sells mostly petrol. Is BP really that embarrassed by the 3.8 million barrels of oil they...
Saving the Coorong by restoring its native state
When the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Penny Wong, recently announced that there was insufficient water in upstream dams to flood the...
Dam good idea holds water
Water saving and agonising over an augmentation of Victoria's urban supply have been long and unnecessary exercises. We have plenty of water...
More science less opinion on GM and rats
Another Look at GM Corn Seems Merited Those who make their living from lobbying/marketing sometimes claim "perception is reality". One topic...
Climate mettle about to be tested
An emissions trading scheme has not even started but the Government's hostility to carbon emissions is already choking off the supply of...
Tax on energy use is best way to fight pollution
The emissions trading scheme (ETS) is advertised as being a "market solution to a market problem". This is a clever piece of rhetoric that has long...