Jennifer Marohasy

“The boom of thunder and crackle of lightning generally mean one thing: a storm is coming. Curiously, though, the biggest storms of all, hurricanes, are notoriously lacking in lightning. Hurricanes blow, they rain, they flood, but seldom do they crackle,” at least that was how NASA s Patrick Barry and Tony Phillips began an article [...]

The new issue of The Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development is online at www.ejsd.org.
In this issue, “Sustaining the Seas”:
Measuring the biological sustainability of marine fisheries: property rights, politics, and science: Michael de Alessi shows that there is currently no adequate measurement for biological performance in fisheries. His paper addresses the impact of scientific uncertainty on [...]

Temperatures in the Arctic are rising far faster than in other parts of the world. Climate models produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which are tuned to reproduce the human-made greenhouse effect, predict the region should have warmed by 1.4 °C between 1960 and 2000. In fact, the Arctic’s average air temperature [...]

“An infamous media type said, ‘In essence we’re a conceited naked ape but in our mind we’re a divine legend and we see ourselves as some sort of God that we can walk around the earth deciding who will live and die and what will be destroyed and saved.’ Wilderness has no gods or one [...]

“IN A blow to Victoria’s massive plantation industry, the State Government has moved to make thirsty timber plantations accountable for the water they use.
“Companies such as Timbercorp may face extra costs as Government documents show it is considering making them pay for the water the trees suck up…
Read more here: http://www.theage.com.au/news/environment/plan-to-make-timber-industry-pay-for-rain/2008/05/10/1210131335198.html