People & associates
Jennifer Marohasy
Buy into the bunk or let biotech forge on
Early this year a professor from the University of Queensland predicted 60 per cent of the Great Barrier Reef would bleach this summer because of...
Fat ducks equal fat cows
Graziers like water, and the cheaper it is, the better. Environmentalists thrive on crises - no environmental problems, no crusades. In the...
Denying Good News about Salt
The Australian Parliament's Senate Environment Committee has just released a report about salinity, concluding we need to accept that salinity is...
Growing organic demand indulgent
What does the future really hold for Australia's enthusiastic organic farmers? Last week former NSW Democrat MP, Richard Jones, from Possum Creek...
Time to Lift Unhelpful GM Crop Ban
A new report from the Federal Government's Agriculture and Food Policy Reference Group titled Creating Our Future: Agriculture and food policy for...
When words emit a powerful odour
Methane is a greenhouse gas which, once release into the atmosphere can contribute to global warming. But, interestingly, it was not until a month...
Save the Planet, Cut Down a Tree
The latest round of restrictions on broad-scale tree clearing in NSW and Queensland were driven in part by the Federal Government's global warming...
Hot, But Not All Bad
Last year was the hottest on record in Australia, with temperatures about one degree Celsius warmer than the 1961-1990 average, which is the...
Con-fusion over going green
Australia and India are the only nations in the Asia-Pacific partnership without a significant nuclear energy capability Last year was the hottest...
Bad year for doom, gloom
The end of year is perhaps a time to reflect on what was, and offer a word of advice for next year. Global warming has been the number one issue...