When the Soviet Union existed and included Kazakhstan and Usbekistan, tremendous volumes of water were diverted from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers to grow cotton. This resulted in the drying up of the Aral Sea a once huge body of water in … [Read more...] about Has Anybody Visited the North Aral Sea Lately?
Why are The Opinionators also ‘Environmentalists’?
Sydney-based think tank the Centre for Independent Studies puts out a quarterly magazine called Policy. The latest issue features a piece titled 'The Rise of the Opinionators' by Peter Saunders which suggests that: "In the last 50 years, people’s … [Read more...] about Why are The Opinionators also ‘Environmentalists’?
Save the Albatross
There is a campaign to 'save the albatross' at www.savethealbatross.net . The website includes bits of information on the biology of these birds including that there are 21 different species with a mostly southern hemisphere distribution, that the … [Read more...] about Save the Albatross
Reflections on World Environment Day 2006
It's World Environment Day and I woke to hear Australia's MInister for Foreign Affairs Alexander Downer talking up the possibility of the Australian Government building a nuclear power station to run a water desalination plant for Adelaide. Adelaide … [Read more...] about Reflections on World Environment Day 2006
Reconciling with the Murray River
I lived for the first six years of my life in a mud brick house up the hill a bit from a creek in the Northern Territory. I remember the water as black and very deep. I remember as a child jumping as far into the middle of that creek as I could, … [Read more...] about Reconciling with the Murray River
More on Salt: Badly Wrong Public Science
Since last Sunday's feature story 'Australia's Salinity Crisis, What Crisis?', I've pondered whether Wendy Craik's claim on the program that decisions in the past were based on the best available information really hold's up to scrutiny. If funding … [Read more...] about More on Salt: Badly Wrong Public Science
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
