BOOK REVIEW by Jenny Goldie. The Water Will Come – rising seas, sinking cities, and the remaking of the civilized world by Jeff Goodell Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2017. 341 pp. AT THE RECENT Climate Change Update in Canberra, Professor Mark Howden said sea-level rise, one of the manifestations of climate change,
Environment
Environmental issues in Palerang, Queanbeyan and surrounds.
Pooping for the planet: Part I
Just gone through ‘hottest’ five years
"More than 260 heat and low rainfall records smashed in one (winter) season in Australia by The Climate Council THE HOTTEST PERIOD on record has been officially confirmed, with the world experiencing its hottest five-years from 2013 through 2017, according to new climate data released today. Ed note: this does not mean
Oceans: Science and Solutions for Australia
BOOK REVIEW by Nick Goldie. I love a sunburnt country – and its oceans too Australia (surprisingly) is a maritime nation. We have the third largest marine area of responsibility in the world, almost twice the area of our ‘ragged mountain ranges and sweeping plains’. We have maritime territories in three oceans
Aboriginal Australians co-existed with the megafauna for at least 17,000 years
What it could have looked like when humans and megafauna lived together: a giant macropod Procoptodon goliah in the foreground, while Thylacinus cynocephalus hunts for prey nearby. A herd of Zygomaturus can be see on the lake edge of the ancient Willandra system. Illustration by Laurie Beirne, Author provided. AUSTRALIA WAS
National Energy Guarantee — what’s it mean for lights, power, jobs?
Bush Heritage charged with misleading donors about kangaroo cull
THE AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY for Kangaroos (ASK) alleges: “An internal source from Bush Heritage Australia has contacted (us) exposing their plans to slaughter 500 kangaroos and their joeys at their Scottsdale reserve 75km south of Canberra (near Bredbo)." The shooting may have started at the end of June and may continue until
Turtle Tale from Bywong
Global ocean dead zones and hot greenhouse climate during age of dinosaurs
CSIRO media report. AN INTERNATIONAL TEAM of scientists aboard research vessel JOIDES Resolution have arrived in Fremantle after an eight-week voyage studying Australia’s climate and tectonics during the Cretaceous Period (the last age of the dinosaurs). Of particular interest are the global ocean dead zones, known as Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAEs). They
Last century thinking threatens forests, ignores climate remedy
Between Palerang, Queanbeyan and the whole south coast, and in the north, native forest are still being logged and fragmented with government/industry regional forest agreements that value native forests more as woodchips than as greenhouse gas carbon ‘sinks’ and wildlife habitat. HOPEFUL CONTRACTUAL agreements with multi-nationals threaten to lock in forest