The multilateral approach to climate change attempted at Copenhagen and Kyoto have so far not managed to substantially reduce our carbon emissions and therefore slow climate change....

Bob Brown says voters should decide preferences...

The Government's scientific research flagship, the CSIRO, now has an adventurer at the helm. As well as being a corporate banker with Macquarie Bank, Simon McKeon is a world record holder in sailing, a philanthropist, a director of a third world aid agency and a lawyer. ...

Investment in large scale solar plants and wind farms has been given a boost after the Federal Government struck a deal with the Coalition and the Greens to pass amendments to its renewable energy target scheme....

A Conservation Foundation survey indicates that Darwin is Australia's most sustainable city followed by Queensland's Sunshine Coast and Brisbane....

Calling for celebratory, thoughtful, descriptive, creative works that engage with the human/avian relationship. Birds are everywhere. Even in the center of the cities, the white cockatoos call as they form silhouettes against blue sky; the rosellas squabble for fruit. And in the bush birds ...

We're calling for your memories, and memorials, of times by the river. Any Australian river. We'd love your celebrations of times spent on the river, descriptions of 'your' river, love stories set on the riverbank... Your thoughtful observations of how the river you know has changed, in sound, in ...

Steve Schneider appeared on the television program Insight on SBS-TV, where climate doubters fired their questions and Professor Schneider batted alone, defending climate science. Just days after the recording, he died. We hear an excerpt: Insight 7 August 2010. ...

Climate change is on and off the political agenda in Australia. Whether an emissions trading system or a carbon tax win the day, one big barrier stands in the way of change: human nature. How we think about the problem can trump what we actually do -- right down to shorter showers and turning off the ...

The man who wrote a landmark report on the economic impact of climate change says political will is what's most needed to tackle global warming. Advocacy groups say Australia hasn't reached a strong consensus on the issue and lags behind many other countries. ...