Jennifer Marohasy

A new fisheries paper, Fiskeribladet, states that the Norweigan whaling and sealing industries are in serious trouble.
According to the Marine Research Institute (Havsforskningsinstituttet), the seals in the East Ice Area (off Russia) and the minkes in the North East Atlantic are consuming as much fish as the entire Norwegian fisheries fleet.
“That’s why it is [...]

Lawrence Soloman, who has been writing the so-called ‘Deniers’ series in Canada’s National Post revealed on the weekend in a piece entitled ‘Wikipedia’s Zealots’ that an individual on staff with Wikipedia has been de-editing his corrections to a Wikipedia article on Naomi Oreskes who rose to fame (infamy) with her 2004 Science article on the [...]

This weekend one thousand of Australia’s best and brightest will gather in Canberra, the national capital, to consider the challenges facing us over the next decade. There is a website dedicated to the 2020 Summit and Prime Minister Rudd has asked that ordinary Australians contribute:
“The new century has thrown up enormous challenges, [...]

China has already overtaken the US as the world’s “biggest polluter”, a report to be published next month says.
The research suggests the country’s greenhouse gas emissions have been underestimated, and probably passed those of the US in 2006-2007.
The University of California team will report their work in the Journal of Environment Economics and Management.
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