Reports of the death of the Great Barrier Reef are greatly exaggerated. Despite having survived at least half a million years of nature’s vicissitudes, the Reef has been under supposedly imminent threat for almost as long as I can remember. In the 1970s, it was the crown of thorns
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Steve Goreham Steve Goreham is a speaker, author, and independent columnist on energy, sustainability, climate change, and public policy. More than 100,000 copies of his books are now in print, including his latest, Outside the Green Box: Rethinking Sustainable Development. cfact.org Which is more environmentally friendly — an energy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
