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Category Archives: State of the Planet

The future of uranium mining in the Kakadu National Park

March 19, 2009 – 12:38 pm

Green news for the day:

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Naked cyclists take to the streets

March 18, 2009 – 12:01 pm

News from planet earth:

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Gunns felled by own law suit

March 17, 2009 – 12:41 pm

News from around the planet today:

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Using the carrot and not the stick

March 16, 2009 – 1:22 pm

Today’s green news:

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Today’s green news:
Drinking viagra? With a water crisis predicted as serious offshoot of climate change — a UN tome released on Wednesday, the World Water Development Report, found that “water stress, amplified by climate change, will pose a mounting security challenge”, says AP — we’re going to need to get water wise. Recycling water [...]

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Sea level story a washout?

March 12, 2009 – 12:08 pm

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 [...]

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Coverage from Copenhagen

March 11, 2009 – 11:19 am

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 [...]

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The world’s leading climate change deniers, now in playing card form

March 10, 2009 – 12:14 pm

News from Planet Earth:

Not ace: Just who are the world’s leading climate change deniers? George Monbiot has a round-up in The Guardian, in playing card form. A handy guide.
Audience participation 1: With negotiations on the new international climate change treaty due to open in three weeks’ time, The Independent is using readers’ input to [...]

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Chances of climate change accord up sh-t creek?

March 9, 2009 – 11:30 am

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, [...]

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Greenies push for online habitat

March 6, 2009 – 10:30 am

Today’s green news:
Giving the environment its own domain. Al Gore (via his Alliance for Climate Protection) is partnering with Dot Eco LLC to try and secure the to .eco domain for environmental causes. People like .COM domains, or alternatively country level domains. But WashPo’s Michael Arrington is dubious about who this is really [...]

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