Jennifer Marohasy

Last week I drove from Brisbane (south eastern Queensland) to Barham on the Murray River.
Listening to the news in Brisbane I was getting the impression the Murray River was nearly empty of water.
In fact there is still a lot of water in the river but the Hume and Dartmouth dams are very low. [...]

No one can deny that in recent years the need to “save the planet” from global warming has become one of the most pervasive issues of our time. As Tony Blair’s chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, claimed in 2004, it poses “a far greater threat to the world than international terrorism”, warning that by [...]

A vividly coloured fish could be the key to saving the Caribbean’s coral reefs from plummeting into terminal decline, scientists claim.
Their research forecasts that reefs risk being damaged beyond repair by the influx of seaweed.
BBC News website: Parrotfish to aid reef repair

Energy savings in UK households could be up to 30% lower than previously thought, jeopardising efforts to cut the nation’s carbon dioxide emissions.
The UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) blamed the miscalculation on “rebound effects” from energy-saving measures.
As people cut their bills by using more efficient devices, they tend to spend the extra money buying additional [...]