Jennifer Marohasy

“Wilderness is mainly in the mind’s eye – to be a stranger in a strange land for a fraction of a second and create an other world where what is familiar and drab and safe is fleetingly unrecognisable yet beckons like a siren’s song. A place like home yet a place like no other.”
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There is an interesting News Focus story in this week’s Science journal, that helps to confirm the different climate histrories for the East and West Antarctic ice sheets – a phenomenon that persists in modern times:
ANTARCTICA: Freeze-Dried Findings Support a Tale of Two Ancient Climates
A surprising cache of ancient plant material adds evidence for divergent [...]

“Why do we love to believe that mankind is a plague upon the Earth? We view anything and everything that happens in nature, no matter how barbaric, bloody, or destructive, as good. Indeed, the word ‘natural’ has no negative connotation at all.
If a volcano like Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines dumps millions of tons of [...]

Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, the directors and producers of the documentary on mining and environmentalism, Mine Your Own Business, have just finished a new film ‘Not Evil Just Wrong’.
The trailer is now on you tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHMOEVRysWE
Their new focus appears to be global warming.