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Opinions Clash at Climate Conference

Food & Environment and Climate Change | | Jennifer Marohasy
The Land 20th March, 2008

I was recently in New York for the International Conference on Climate Change. The 500 delegates came from a great diversity of professions...

Carbon rationing or freedom

Food & Environment | | Jennifer Marohasy
Online Opinion 14th March, 2008

Australia has now ratified the Kyoto Protocol and when George Bush's Presidency expires the United States is also likely to join up. Indeed all...

Myths on food miles

Food & Environment and Food | | Tim Wilson
The Australian 10th March, 2008

Last week federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Tony Burke, exposed the ``food miles'' campaign as ``nothing more than...

Cattle versus Ducks down in The Marshes

Food & Environment | | Jennifer Marohasy
The Land 6th March, 2008

NSW Water Minister, Nathan Rees, has allocated $400,000 to conduct an audit of water diversion structures in the Macquarie Marshes, north of...

Future carbon

Food & Environment | | Tom Quirk
Online Opinion 5th March, 2008

In 1897 Lord Kelvin, a former President of the Royal Society in London declared that the atmosphere would exhaust its oxygen in some 300 years as a...

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