Help the Wild Wielangta find ways to keep its old growth, high conservation value forest in the ground by applying pressure to the Australian (Federal) and Tasmanian (State) governments to recognise the role...
I used to like the penultimate Australian Prime Minister, John Howard (Liberal.) He was great in the early days and accomplished much - economically, politically and socially - in fact he did a lot of good for...
As the G-8 Summit in Germany looms, the carbon credit trading system as a useful method for tackling climate change is coming under more fire. The system of buying and selling these credits is...
"Australia's Prime Minister John Howard has warned his government that it risks "annihilation" by the opposition Labor Party in elections later this year. A string of opinion polls suggests the Labor Party would...
Environmental activists held a rally across Canada called Rally for Kyoto in support of the Kyoto Protocol. One of the biggest gatherings was held in Toronto at Nathan Phillips Square on Queen Street -- in Calgary...
Presidential Candidate, Gov. Bill Richardson spoke at The Center for Strategic and International Studies. There he outlined a Progressive Foreign Policy for America’s future.
""I know the Kenyan government has proposed to have such a summit. I'm going to discuss that with the president (Kenya's Mwai Kibaki)," he told reporters during a brief visit to a Nairobi slum.
"Climate change is one of the most important issues that the international...
The first United Nations climate conference since the Kyoto agreement came into force in February is due to begin in the Canadian city of Montreal.
Delegates will discuss how targets on cutting greenhouse gas emissions over the next seven years will be met.
Talks over the...
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THE drive for "green energy" in the developed world is having the
perverse effect of encouraging the destruction of tropical rainforests.
From the orang-utan reserves of Borneo to the Brazilian Amazon, virgin
forest is being razed to grow palm oil and soybeans to...
Canada's Alberta province has oil reserves
second only to Saudi Arabia's, but they're not a liquid asset. We visit
Fort McMurray, the boomtown where oil-rich sands are mined-and a
black-gold rush is on.
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