The evidence is clear and health professionals are taking notice, writes Melissa Sweet. Now it’s time for government to act
19 Apr 13 Comments (0)Force of nature
Australian journalist Natalie Bennett has big ambitions for Britain’s Green Party. Carmela Ferraro talked to her in London
17 Apr 13 Comments (0)Noisily flows the Manning
A river community’s campaign to stop coal-seam gas captures the new face of rural politics in Australia, writes Robert Milliken
05 Mar 13 Comments (2)The humility of local consciousness
Could thinking globally be a kind of cognitive intoxication, asks Jane Goodall
13 Feb 13 Comments (1)Shades of green, black and white
David Bowman considers the environmental politics of managing Indigenous lands
07 Feb 13 Comments (0)Can we afford to get back on the rails?
Australia’s largest cities still rely heavily on massive investments in rail before the second world war. With renewed interest in rail as a way of dealing with congestion, Peter Mares looks at what history can tell us about the value of reinvesting in railways
12 Dec 12 Comments (1)The disturbing logic of “Stay or Go”
The experts driving Australia’s bushfire policies won’t acknowledge that different forests produce different fires, writes Tom Griffiths
22 Nov 12 Comments (1)Time for a national oceans plan
Public debate about the super trawler FV Abel Tasman and new national marine reserves have highlighted major flaws in the way Australia manages its ocean resources, writes Amanda Cornwall
21 Sep 12 Comments (0)Climate policy and our sphere of influence
Our policies have focused on the small portion of emissions that we account for within Australia. It’s time to start thinking about how we can influence emissions beyond our borders, argues Fergus Green
02 Aug 12 Comments (0)
Don’t mention the floor
Amid tumbling international carbon markets and calls to weaken the carbon pricing scheme, Fergus Green makes the case for retaining an Australian carbon price floor
14 Jun 12 Comments (0)Looking for an island circuit-breaker
Although the forestry agreement is looking shaky, innovative projects are flourishing in Tasmania, writes Natasha Cica. Strategic assistance could speed the move to a different kind of economy
24 May 12 Comments (1)Not so fast to the green scheme graveyard
As politicians take the razor to state and federal “complementary” climate policies, Fergus Green examines their role with the federal carbon price looming
30 Apr 12 Comments (0)Thus began the Australian occupation of Antarctica…
Tom Griffiths was on board the Aurora Australis as it sailed south to Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Douglas Mawson’s historic expedition. Once again, a complex interplay of science and sovereignty was at work
24 Feb 12 Comments (1)A world of our own making
Without realising it, we seem to have entered a new geological epoch. Brett Evans looks at how we got there and what it means
17 Feb 12 Comments (0)Sarawak’s roads to development
Logging has changed remote Sarawak in many ways, but the aftermath can produce a new kind of isolation, writes Christine Horn
03 Feb 12 Comments (0)The failure of “treaties, targets and trading” and the future of Australian climate policy
In the first of a two-part series examining the future of Australian climate policy, Fergus Green explains why the international policy consensus, on which Australia has based its carbon pricing scheme, has broken down
02 Feb 12 Comments (0)“Preserved for the people for all time”
Is “balanced” development really the best way to manage our inland rivers? Cameron Muir looks at the language that could save or condemn them
Comments (0)What Durban revealed about climate’s shifting allegiances
Canada’s reversal on Kyoto won’t undermine the sense that the Durban climate conference achieved more than many expected, writes Michael Jacobs
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