Jennifer Marohasy

Hollywood blockbuster ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ was an apocalyptic tale about the Gulf Stream — the ocean current which circulates warm water from the tropics to the Northern Hemisphere — being disrupted by global warming. In the following guest blog post, Rog summarises the latest research findings from Richard Seager on the Gulf Stream. [...]

The Macquarie Marshes is a large non-terminal wetland in central western New South Wales (Australia) recognised internationally as an important breeding site for migratory birds. The marshes are degraded and the popular perception is that upstream irrigators are to blame.
Most of marsh lands are privately owned and used for cattle grazing. There [...]

Last year the United States produced 3.9 billion gallons of ethanol from corn. Brazil produced 4.2 billion gallons over the same period all from sugar and mollasses.
The United States Department of Agriculture has just published a report entitled ‘The Economic Feasibility of Ethanol Production from Sugar in the United States’ concluding that at the [...]

You can now register for the first conference of new environment group the Australian Environment Foundation (AEF) by downloading the registration brochure here.
Keynote speaker is Mike Archer, palaeontologist, author and Dean of Science at the University of New South Wales, who will:
“Plead for the revolution we must have – between the ears and on the [...]