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The Rise and Rhetoric of the Climate Chicken Littles

Roger Koops Roger W. Koops holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Riverside as well as Master and Bachelor degrees from Western Washington University. brownstone.org For those who may not recall Chicken Little (AKA Henny Penny), the character was derived in the 1880s and was meant

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EPA Approved a Highly Carcinogenic Fuel Ingredient

EPA Approved a Highly Carcinogenic Fuel Ingredient

Sharon Lerner Sharon Lerner covers health and the environment. She joined ProPublica in 2022 after seven years as an investigative reporter at The Intercept, where she focused on failures of the environmental regulatory process as well as biosafety and pandemic profiteering. This story was originally published by ProPublica EPA Approved

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Eight Key Questions about Lab-Grown Meat

Paul Wood Paul has been a full-time research scientist throughout his career, from Melbourne University to CSIRO, CSL and Pfizer. He has received a number of awards, including the CSIRO Medal and Clunies Ross Award. He now help academic groups work with Industry. lens.monash.edu What is it? Cultured

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A Lesson Not Learned, Yet Again

It’s the same old cycle that’s been going on for almost as long as Australia’s been a nation: catastrophic bushfires result in an official inquiry. That inquiry invariably recommends that state authorities engage in vigorous fuel-reduction activity (i.e. controlled burning) during the winter months, to stop

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Life Finds a Way, Indeed

Life Finds a Way, Indeed

It’s commonly assumed that cities are wildernesses for wild animals. In fact, wild animals often thrive in cities: everything from magpies and lorikeets, to bandicoots and possums in Australia, to coyotes and white-tail deer in America – even cougars in suburban Los Angeles (the four-footed kind, to be clear). Why

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The Truth about Heatwaves

Joanne Nova A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was formerly an associate

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Bulldozing a Forest to Save the Planet

When Heather du Plessis-Allan laughed in the face of a spoilt-brat “Climate Striker”, she was only saying out loud what we all know: these people are the biggest hypocrites on the face of the planet. It’s impossible, after all, not to notice just how selective the Climate Cult’s

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Climate Models Are Incorrect on Rain Fall

Climate Models Are Incorrect on Rain Fall

Joanne Nova A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was formerly an associate

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Greta Shows off Her Manners

Greta Shows off Her Manners

Robert Kogon Robert Kogon is a pen name for a widely-published financial journalist, a translator, and researcher working in Europe. brownstone.org Greta Thunberg was photographed at the European Parliament in Strasbourg last Wednesday smiling broadly while flipping a double-bird – apparently to the opponents of heavily contested new EU environmental

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What of the Waste from Wind Turbines?

What of the Waste from Wind Turbines?

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 Wind turbines, once touted by a few wealthy and less populated countries as a clean solution for electricity, are now becoming an

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Spectacular NZ Fossil Site Saved

Spectacular NZ Fossil Site Saved

John G Conran, Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology University of Adelaide Daphne Lee, Honorary Associate Professor in Geology/Paleontology University of Otago Uwe Kaulfuss, Geologist (PhD) Georg-August-Universität Göttingen One of New Zealand’s most exceptional fossil sites may soon be open to scientists again following a land purchase that saved

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The Danger of Wild Foods

The Danger of Wild Foods

Jack Heinemann Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics Sophie Joy van Hamelsveld Postdoctoral Scientist University of Canterbury Traditional harvesting sites, or mahinga kai, continue to be used throughout New Zealand to provide food and to share skills and cultural practices between families and generations. But our new research shows that

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The Illusion of a Woylie Successful Conservation

The Illusion of a Woylie Successful Conservation

Cat Williams particle.scitech.org.au They save our animals from extinction but ‘safe havens’ also have a major drawback. The last remnant populations of woylie – a critically endangered native mammal – remain in southwest Western Australia. There are other woylie populations across Australia. However, they’re all in conservation areas

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They Are Ramping up the Alternatives

They Are Ramping up the Alternatives

Ronald Stein Ron Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations. PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com In answer to the provocative question posed in an article of Issues and Insights, “Are We Finally Heading

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Plastic in NZ Lakes: a Global Study 

Deniz Özkundakci University of Waikato theconversation.com The level of microplastic pollution in New Zealand lakes is comparable with those in the US or Europe, despite much lower population densities, according to our global analysis of plastic pollution in freshwater lakes and reservoirs. Globally, our results show two types of

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Plenty of Good News on Conservation

Plenty of Good News on Conservation

An ABC piece about the death of a platypus in suburban Hobart shrieked that it was a sign of the species’ imminent threat. While it is indeed shocking and tragic that the animal died because of a loop of twine embedded in its fur, it might also be pointed out

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