The ABC has a great analysis on the Timor Sea oil spill and how the mainstream media only started paying attention once the leaking rig burst into flames.
Endangered marine life? Pah. Big explosions?! Now you’re talking!
It’s an unfortunate reality: science doesn’t sell; sex (and other big bangs) does.
But what’s the lesson in all this for [...]
How will the predicted 4C rise in global temperature by 2050 affect the planet?
The UK’s Met Office has produced this interactive map showing just how dramatically Earth could change in our lifetime if urgent action isn’t taken to curb this grim forecast.
A new film clip from a Melbourne-based hip-hop artist celebrates the joy of two-wheelers.
Green news for the day:
Happy Birthday, nuclear disaster! It’s 30 years since the nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island melted down.
TIME looks at how it changed the US energy industry, and asks: if the disaster hadn’t happened, and the nuclear industry had continued to grow unabated, would the country’s greenhouse emissions be significantly smaller?
Scientific [...]
News from around the planet today:
Disney goes green? The happiest company on Earth is planning to cut their greenhouse gas emissions in half over the next four years, but the Guardian’s Fred Pearce calls BS, asking: just how green can they be if they still rely on people travelling around the world to visit their [...]
Sea level story a red herring? Yesterday, we noted that the first big story — or at least the one picked up by all the international press — coming out of this week’s climate conference in Copenhagen was claims that sea levels may rise by more than twice the previously expected levels.
But Island of Doubt [...]
Coverage from the Copenhagen Climate Congress (try saying that five times fast):
In The Guardian, Oliver Tickell describes the conference as “chaos” and wonders how those present can expect to save the world when they can’t even run a press conference.
TreeHugger reports on a talk by the University of Copenhagen’s Katherine Richardson, who proposed that climate [...]
Green news for today:
Chances of climate change accord up sh-t creek? With a massive conference on climate change about to kick off in Copenhagen this week where environmental leaders are expected to nut out a successor to Kyoto, two climate scientists are already saying the chances of any meaningful global deal being established are slim, [...]
Green news for the day:
Aggro over aquaculture. The UN recently called for an increase in fish farming in order to ease pressure on wild stocks, a suggestion not received well by many environmental groups, according to Discover magazine:
Environmental groups say the report appeared to ignore the huge environmental problems posed by fish farms: particularly the [...]
Green news for the day:
Grand sale, grand sale, grand sale.* Solar panel manufacturers will be slashing prices this year, reports Worldchanging. With a recent increase in investment in the production of silicon, the price of solar photovoltaics could fall between 30-40%.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the cost of installing solar panels in the US [...]
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