Jennifer Marohasy

I reckon it is nearly impossible to keep up with the climate change literature particularly the latest climate change scare story. Working out whether a particular piece of information is invented, real, real but exaggerated, etcetera, certainly takes effort.
Brisbane’s newspaper, The Courier-Mail, has a story on page 19 of this weekend’s edition titled ‘Greenland [...]

A paper published in Nature (Frank Keppler et.al., Vol 439, pgs. 187-191) some weeks ago indicating that tree emit methane, generated lots of media for a couple of days, and then nothing.
I wrote my last two columns for The Land on the issue, click here and here.
I received the following email in response:
Hello Jennifer,
It was [...]

Growing up, I aspired at different times, to be a florist, a marine biologist, an archaeologist and a botanist. I worked for many years as an entomologist. I never thought I would become a writer.
Now I am a writer I am very aware of the importance of ideas, evidence, and freedom of expression in [...]

I have previously written that more effort should be put into “saving sun bears”, click here for that blog post.
The international organisation that regulates trade in endangered species, CITES, lists sun bear as threatened with extinction and notes that there is a trade in sun bear ‘body parts’ including for traditional medicines.
Several readers have commented [...]