-Source:ABC
Is Environmentalism Failing? (video)
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
The environmental movement in Australia was the first in the world to become a political movement and Australia was home to the world's first Green Party. Australian public opinion and policies have been swayed in the past on crucial issues such as land conservation and nuclear power, but what about climate change?
Humans are causing the sixth great extinction
Thursday, 14 October 2010
While the global population's set to top nine billion by mid-century, non-human life is dying at rates not seen in 60 million years. Scientists are calling it the sixth great extinction, a catastrophic drop in the number of the world's plant and animal species. The UN's holding a major biodiversity meeting in Japan . . .
The figures are staggering. UN scientists estimate that the world is losing 200 species every day - that's every day. And here's another one for you: the total number of vertebrates on the planet - that's mammals, reptiles, fish, birds and amphibians - plummeted by a third between 1970 and 2006.
And while Australia has one of the richest and most unique range of species, we also have one of the highest extinction rates. But because most of us live in cities, isolated from the rhythms of nature, we don't seem to notice the carnage. It may be the International Year of Biodiversity, but research shows that most people don't know what biodiversity is or why it's important.
Report aims to combat climate 'misinformation'
Monday, 16 August 2010
Some of the nation's top scientists have united in a new climate statement which issues fresh warnings about the dangers of global warming.
The statement released by the Australian Academy of Science is a first for the organisation and details the key evidence identified globally by climate scientists.
It also says global emissions must peak within a decade and decline rapidly if dangerous climate change is to be avoided.
Developing nations stage climate summit walkout
Monday, 14 December 2009
Talks have resumed at the international climate change summit in Copenhagen after a walkout by developing countries.
The protest was led by African nations, which accused rich countries of trying to wreck the existing UN Kyoto Protocol.
The G-77 group of developing nations want talks on a second period of commitment to Kyoto to be given priority over broader discussions on a long-term vision for co-operative action.
