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Environment - 2012

‘Golden age’ for gas fails to illuminate solution for climate change

by Rebecca McNicholl and Matthew Wright - 5/03/2012 - 18 comments

Short-sighted approaches to climate and energy won’t fix anything

by Benjamin Sporton - 15/03/2012 - 59 comments

Tassie's forests: deal or no deal?

by Mark Poynter - 6/12/2012 - 2 comments

NASA scientist out of control

by Tim Ball - 8/08/2012 - 84 comments

March of the dead zones

by Julian Cribb - 24/08/2012 - 48 comments

Climate change: why do the facts fail to convince?

by Tom Harris - 4/06/2012 - 25 comments

Tasmania's forestry debacle

by Mark Poynter - 24/08/2012 - 16 comments

World Food Day

by Tim Andrews - 16/10/2012 - 59 comments

Extreme weather in Australia

by Don Aitkin - 19/10/2012 - 37 comments

Is solar power the answer?

by Don Aitkin - 7/12/2012 - 56 comments

On ‘belief’ and ‘denial’

by Don Aitkin - 27/12/2012 - 277 comments

Covering the Occupy movement

by Corey Ellen - 16/02/2012

Atlas of Australia

by Viv Forbes - 31/07/2012 - 17 comments

AGW, Hollywood and Frankenstein

by Anthony Cox - 28/06/2012 - 22 comments

Doing something to stop roadkill

by Valerie Yule - 10/09/2012 - 9 comments

Exceptions that disprove the AGW 'rule'

by Anthony Cox and Joanne Nova - 2/10/2012 - 87 comments

Making the world a more dangerous place: the eager role of Julia Gillard

by John Pilger - 26/10/2012 - 16 comments

How travel broadens the mind

by Rafe Champion - 9/01/2012 - 5 comments

Fossil fuels versus renewables

by Kurt Cobb - 25/01/2012 - 20 comments

Cost of living just the symptom

by John Coulter - 12/04/2012 - 67 comments

The ultimate compliance cost for the ETS

by Peter Lang - 7/05/2012 - 51 comments

Labor bequeaths us climate careerism

by Ian Plimer - 25/05/2012 - 55 comments

Answering Barry Brook on Australia's nuclear power future

by Noel Wauchope - 12/06/2012 - 43 comments

Japan steps away from nuclear power

by John Daly - 26/09/2012 - 2 comments

Poland gives green light to massive fracking efforts

by John Daly - 6/02/2012 - 10 comments

Cubbie throws Nationals a lifeline

by Matthew Holloway - 13/09/2012 - 15 comments

The Lowy Institute's dangerous nuclear propaganda

by Jim Green - 28/12/2012 - 13 comments

Mayan calendar picks a pivotal year

by Peter McMahon - 12/01/2012 - 19 comments

Why are Australians whingeing?

by Millsom Henry-Waring - 9/02/2012 - 21 comments

Environmental elephants

by Greg Donoghue - 17/01/2012 - 36 comments

The importance of facts in research: the IFR

by Ben Heard and Tom Keen - 18/06/2012 - 80 comments

Does 'Conservative Environmentalism' really unite?

by Stephen McGrail - 20/06/2012 - 8 comments

Peak oil and the lost message of the carbon tax

by Tom Holland - 2/07/2012 - 61 comments

Forecasting for disaster

by Mark S. Lawson - 3/08/2012 - 35 comments

Securing Australia’s food future

by Sophie Love - 13/08/2012 - 25 comments

A short response to Robert Manne's A Dark Victory

by Tim Florin - 6/09/2012 - 92 comments

Food shortages feed instability

by Julie Bishop - 13/09/2012 - 12 comments

Wind power running out of puff

by Mark S. Lawson - 31/10/2012 - 35 comments

Greg Hunt’s carbon illusion

by Ben Rose - 18/09/2012 - 11 comments

Sold down the Murray

by Will Mooney - 28/11/2012 - 4 comments

Energy debates need imagination, public interest and honesty

by Sam Powrie - 21/02/2012 - 24 comments

The poor art of modelling climate change

by Michael Kile - 26/03/2012 - 33 comments

An Olympic dream

by Everald Compton - 2/04/2012 - 35 comments

Just how green is Google?

by Jen Alic - 25/05/2012 - 3 comments

Sex, Sustainability and iPhones

by Ian Chambers - 22/06/2012 - 59 comments

Learning sustainability from the unsustainable

by Andrew Ross - 24/08/2012 - 23 comments

Gunns, forestry, and the flawed notion of 'social licence'

by Mark Poynter - 9/10/2012 - 13 comments

Woodchipping – the new way to save koalas

by David Shoebridge - 18/12/2012 - 18 comments

Smelter closure good for Australia

by Matthew Wright - 15/02/2012 - 19 comments

The low carbon generation

by James Dyson - 27/04/2012 - 37 comments

Facts blow wind myths away

by Max Rheese - 26/11/2012 - 13 comments

Moving on: the clean development mechanism after Kyoto

by Kahlil Lloyd - 4/12/2012 - 13 comments

Perhaps more CO2 is good for us

by Don Aitkin - 12/12/2012 - 59 comments

Environmentalism for people on low incomes

by Elizabeth Jakimow - 12/01/2012 - 18 comments

The future of fire in Australia

by Valerie Yule - 28/02/2012 - 15 comments

The not-so-clean Energy Finance Corporation

by James Wight - 27/06/2012 - 12 comments

Blue can be as green as red

by Ross Chapman - 17/07/2012 - 24 comments

Whatever happens don’t work together

by Bruce Haigh - 18/09/2012 - 4 comments

How to save us from climate-change doomsayers

by Crispin Hull - 3/12/2012 - 61 comments

How unconventional oil changes the world

by James Stafford - 14/12/2012 - 41 comments

Don't fall for the shale boom hype

by James Stafford - 28/12/2012 - 10 comments

SpongeBob SquarePants and the brave new world of comparative genomics

by Roger Kalla - 11/01/2012 - 11 comments

What if they are wrong?

by Mike Stopa - 23/02/2012 - 27 comments

What would our kids think?

by Arron Wood - 1/03/2012 - 5 comments

Those who've cared the longest should have a strong say

by Leah Talbot - 12/09/2012 - 22 comments

Agriculture in Australia's north – now that's a plan

by David Leyonhjelm - 14/09/2012 - 33 comments

Aliens v Predators on a remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean

by Roger Kalla - 31/12/2012 - 5 comments

Saving the lower Murray

by Peter Smith - 7/03/2012 - 35 comments

Global market needs Canada's crude

by Daniel Graeber - 23/03/2012 - 7 comments

Permaculture: a new dominant narrative?

by Cameron Leckie - 4/04/2012 - 16 comments

Without oil, modern civilisation doesn’t work

by Mark O'Connor - 30/04/2012 - 107 comments

China’s looming conflict between energy and water

by Christina Larson - 3/05/2012 - 6 comments

Coal seam gas: undermining Australia’s clean energy future

by Ethan Bowering - 17/08/2012 - 22 comments

Shale gas boom hardly shaking up the world

by Cameron Leckie - 1/11/2012 - 14 comments

Reef alarmists jump the shark

by Walter Starck - 12/10/2012 - 22 comments

Lessons from Australia? Engaging indigenous peoples in carbon markets

by Elizabeth Buchan - 5/12/2012 - 10 comments

Engineering the climate: is science fiction becoming reality?

by Kerryn Brent and Jeffrey McGee - 19/12/2012 - 52 comments

Logging and bushfires

by Mark Poynter - 25/01/2012 - 6 comments

Poor want climate policies that work

by Max Rheese - 23/02/2012 - 50 comments

Wind jobs falling into a federal black hole

by Ben Courtice - 29/03/2012 - 24 comments

Analyse this! Climate mind games

by Michael Kile - 18/10/2012 - 15 comments

A gaping wound in democracy

by Julian Cribb - 5/11/2012 - 116 comments

Sea Change: Tim Winton’s view from the deep

by Max Rheese - 30/04/2012 - 4 comments

Corruption and mismanagement see much of the US without power

by Jen Alic - 20/07/2012 - 12 comments

Tasmania’s broken ‘forests peace talks’ expose the ugly face of eco-extortion

by Mark Poynter - 7/11/2012 - 10 comments

Finkelstein, free speech and the global warming debate

by Anthony Cox - 8/03/2012 - 68 comments

Restoring the Murray River's estuary

by Jennifer Marohasy - 26/03/2012 - 5 comments

Three books that made me

by John Töns - 5/01/2012 - 2 comments

Shale gas: the view from Russia

by Dmitry Orlov - 11/05/2012 - 11 comments

An interview with Arthur Berman

by James Stafford - 19/11/2012 - 9 comments

The think tank that didn't

by Jim Green - 16/02/2012 - 4 comments

Tough beef with Coles

by David Leyonhjelm - 12/04/2012 - 5 comments

Fukushima - local children unwitting (and unwilling) radioactive guinea pigs

by John Daly - 31/07/2012 - 68 comments

Global crisis, global reform

by Peter McMahon - 24/09/2012 - 27 comments

A global warming primer

by Cliff Ollier - 10/09/2012 - 85 comments

The Kimberley land grab is back on

by Wade Freeman - 11/04/2012 - 2 comments

Seven myths used to debunk peak oil, debunked

by Andrew McKay - 8/05/2012 - 23 comments

Populate or perish?

by Ross Elliott - 16/05/2012 - 34 comments

No easy substitutes for fossil fuels

by Tom Biegler - 27/07/2012 - 47 comments

Nuke South Wales?

by Natalie Wasley and Pepe Clarke - 20/08/2012 - 19 comments

Tourism's long green miles

by Ross Elliott - 27/08/2012 - 9 comments

The gaping wound in the cruelty argument

by Garry Mallard - 14/09/2012 - 14 comments

How to build a climate agreement from the bottom up

by Matteo Gagliardi - 10/12/2012 - 16 comments

Scientists find mega-oil field

by James Burgess - 19/12/2012 - 32 comments

Fighting Ferguson's dump

by Natalie Wasley - 22/03/2012 - 11 comments

The Renewable Revolution

by Sophie Love - 20/11/2012 - 35 comments

Mayans and the end of the world

by Malcolm King - 11/12/2012 - 55 comments

Slam carbon scams

by Michael Kile - 2/08/2012 - 12 comments

Could a changing climate set off volcanoes and quakes?

by Fred Pearce - 10/05/2012 - 21 comments

Ionising radiation: perhaps we have little to fear except fear itself

by John Ridd - 19/07/2012 - 14 comments

The heart of a nation

by Sue Arnold - 25/07/2012 - 18 comments

Myths, politics, and Leadbeater’s Possum

by Mark Poynter - 29/10/2012 - 8 comments

Climate of hunger

by Julian Cribb - 27/11/2012 - 42 comments

Climate change litigation - a two-edged sword

by Anthony Cox and David Stockwell - 28/02/2012 - 23 comments

The Observer Tree

by Miranda Gibson - 10/01/2012 - 14 comments

What carbon price is right to bite into, not bark at, climate change?

by Ted Christie - 3/02/2012 - 56 comments

Rapid obsolescence as a form of waste

by Valerie Yule - 3/02/2012 - 6 comments

Manne and ordinary people

by Anthony Cox - 7/08/2012 - 98 comments

Flannery and the Climate Commission.

by Anthony Cox - 22/08/2012 - 142 comments

The place of human rights in The Future We Want

by Bridget Lewis - 29/06/2012 - 14 comments

Combet removes the floor and pulls the carpet on carbon trading

by Anthony Cox - 31/08/2012 - 20 comments

Peak oil moves to the mainstream

by Michael Lardelli - 13/02/2012 - 65 comments

Peeking at Peak Oil: book review

by Michael Lardelli - 15/05/2012 - 22 comments

Low dose ionising radiation is harmful to health

by Noel Wauchope - 19/06/2012 - 53 comments

Rio+20 and a Green Economy

by Shenggen Fan - 14/06/2012 - 95 comments

A problem of cunning tasmanian foxes or much less cunning innovation?

by Clive Marks - 25/09/2012 - 6 comments

Reducing emissions or redistributing income: why is Australia pricing carbon?

by Geoff Carmody - 2/08/2012 - 13 comments

No 4 wheel drive in my Brunswick or Glebe back yard

by Roger Kalla - 10/12/2012 - 13 comments

Factory farming - essential to feed the world

by David Leyonhjelm - 11/01/2012 - 19 comments

Taking legal action against illegal logging

by Julie Bishop - 5/04/2012 - 11 comments

Grandmother Adams' bushfire story

by Roger Underwood - 6/01/2012 - 5 comments

Very fishy: Australia fails to see ocean for the fish

by Frances O'Brien - 22/06/2012 - 4 comments

What does 'growth' in the 'Asian Century' even mean?

by Charles Berger - 2/11/2012 - 10 comments

Floods wash away carbon tax support

by Mark S. Lawson - 27/04/2012 - 41 comments

Shale gas revolution shaking up the world

by Julie Bishop - 4/10/2012 - 32 comments

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