The late Douglas Adams might well have been thinking of the mainstream media when he described sheep: “they were creatures who learned very little on their journey through life and would be startled to see the sun rising in the morning”. Your average Australian journalist has, in their less-than-30 years
Gabriela Fernando Gabriela’s key areas of interest are in interdisciplinary concepts across global health equity, non-communicable diseases, and women’s health and gender equality, with a particular focus on the South and Southeast Asia region. lens.monash.edu Young people are suing their governments in the US state of
by Danelle Morton and Topher Sanders, with additional reporting by Jessica Lussenhop ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Train Country; Investigating Railroad Safety in America As powerful railroad companies race to maximize
Timothy Welch University of Auckland theconversation.com With National, ACT and NZ First locked in coalition negotiations, various urgent and climate-related transport challenges hang in the balance. Based on pre-election rhetoric, the Clean Car Discount (CCD) scheme may soon be gone. While popular with the public, National has criticised the
Mary Hackshaw The rank hypocrisy of the Green Left has been on full display in the last week. The Melbourne Cup drew the usual rabble of protesters outside the Flemington venue, claiming that horse racing is cruel and that it kills. Following protests at recent Melbourne Cup parades of jockeys
John Klar libertynation.com Since its development as an integral part of genetically modified organism (GMO) cropping, glyphosate – the active weed-killing ingredient in Roundup – has attracted controversy over whether it causes human disease, particularly non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Previous jury verdicts have been split, with some finding liability and others not. Bayer,
dailytelegraph.co.nz GREENPEACE HAVE SHOWN THEY ARE NOTHING BUT AN ANTI-FARMING LOBBY GROUP BY CRITICISING FONTERRA’S NEW ON-FARM EMISSIONS TARGETS, SAYS FEDERATED FARMERS PRESIDENT WAYNE LANGFORD. “Yesterday Fonterra announced that they plan to reduce their emissions intensity 30% by 2030, but before the dust had even settled Greenpeace
cfact.org “The forces on the Left are just too big and powerful. There’s no way to stop them. We are locked out of the process. Our elected officials just won’t listen to us!” This is what I hear every day from activists who truly want to stand
cfact.org The transformation to a fossil-fuel-free, all-electric economy would take the world back to living conditions in the 1800’s by ridding the world of crude oil, coal and natural gas usage and result in: * The pre-1800’s, when the world had no fuels other than wood, dung, and
Ronald Stein Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations. cfact.org Worldwide crude oil consumption is currently estimated at roughly 96.5 million barrels per day. According to OPEC, global demand is expected
Diana Furchtgott-Roth Diana Furchtgott-Roth is the director of the Center for Energy, Climate and Environment and the Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/ PA Pundits International papundits.wordpress.com CLAYTON, GEORGIA – Driving through rural Georgia, I have yet to see an electric vehicle
Adrian Dyer Adrian is a vision scientist and photographer. He’s interested in the comparative physiology of how different animals evolved their visual capabilities depending on the ecology of their environment, and the information that can be learnt to improve the design of new systems. Scarlett Howard Scarlett is a
Frank Lasee CFACT policy advisor Frank Lasee is an expert on energy and environmental issues. His articles have appeared in the Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Real Clear Energy, Town Hall. He has been a guest on TV and radio news. He is the president of Truth in Energy and Climate.
I still remember how much it blew my child’s mind to realise that beneath the vast, icy wastes of Antarctica was an entire, buried continent. A continent bigger than Europe or Australia, buried beneath kilometres of ice for nearly twenty million years. Like island peaks in the Pacific Ocean,
Alexandra Sims University of Auckland Trish O’Sullivan Massey University theconversation.com There was a time when the family washing machine would last decades, with each breakdown fixed by the friendly local repair person. But those days are long gone. Today, it is often faster, easier and cheaper to replace
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com A Court of Appeal decision was released last week that will have a profound influence on the future of New Zealand. Poor drafting and a radical application of ‘tikanga’ by the judiciary has delivered the exact opposite outcome from what the public was promised. The
