Can anxious minds find solace working with plants? A therapist and her husband, a garden designer, say yes. By Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 17 August 2020 IN MID-MARCH, in the tense week before the British government announced its belated coronavirus-induced lockdown, certain everyday products became extraordinarily hard to find. Panicked buyers swept up
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Surprise! NSW embraces renewables big time
“How Australia’s State energy ministers are turning the tables on Angus Taylor” is the promising headline of a Guardian Australia story by Simon Holmes à Court. It outlines the positive renewables revolution in NSW that has quietly gathered speed since 2018 and a new environment/energy minister. Here’s a few sentences and
Renewables confidence rises as solar boom shows no sign of fading
By Peter Hannam, The Sydney Morning Herald. INVESTOR CONFIDENCE in clean energy is rising strongly, led by interest in NSW’s new renewables zones, while the boom in solar rooftop installations shows little sign of tapering. The latest semi-annual survey of renewable energy generators and storage firms by the Clean Energy Council showed
Medicinal cannabis is legal in Australia
but people like Grace are still turning to the black market. By Sophie Kesteven and Michele Weekes for Life Matters, ABC AFTER GRACE* was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year, she turned to medicinal cannabis. But accessing it through legal medical channels was a challenge: she faced long waiting times and substantial
Photographs and drone footage capture the grim reality
Cobargo area bushfire survivors. — Burnt out — The smoke has lifted and exhaustion has set in. Still without water or heating, some bushfire survivors are struggling through a bitter winter. By Stephanie March and Sashka Koloff with photography by Harriet Tatham — ABC News, 7 July 2020 — VIEW FULL CONTENT
Why Orange Roughy should be off the table
Orange roughy fishery report recommends ‘sustainable seafood’ status — but is slammed by conservation groups By Nick Kilvert, ABC Science CONSERVATION GROUPS have slammed moves to reclassify Australia’s orange roughy fishery as sustainable under the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification guidelines. CAPTION: Orange Roughy live for over 140 years and don’t reach sexual
Vitamin K found in some cheeses could help fight Covid-19, study suggests
Scientists in Netherlands explore possible link between deficiency and Covid-19 deaths PATIENTS WHO HAVE died or been admitted to intensive care with Covid-19 have been found to be deficient in a vitamin found in spinach, eggs, and hard and blue cheeses, raising hopes that dietary change might be one part of
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Cobargo to begin recovery months after ‘Black Summer’ as National Bushfire Recovery Fund spending plan is revealed
PAINSTAKING WORK TO remove the scorched rubble from the main street of Cobargo is expected to begin, as the Federal Government gives more details about how the $2-billion National Bushfire Recovery Fund is being spent. The tiny New South Wales South Coast town became one of the worst affected communities by
