Given the chance, a Patagonian toothfish can live for 50 years. But that chance doesn’t often come because pirate fishers have another name for the Patagonian toothfish. They call it “white gold”.
This week, Governor Bob Danaya climbed on board a logging ship in Daru, in Papua New Guinea’s Western Province. He is the first politician to talk to the workers rather than the logging company’s representatives.
"Farmers are being sued for having GMOs on their property that they did not buy, do not want, will not use and cannot sell." Tom Wiley, farmer, North Dakota, US.
For 18,000 miles and 10 weeks, a nuclear transport of terror has been making its dangerous way from Japan to Britain. With the two ships now on the home stretch, their cargo of weapons-usable plutonium could pass less than 10 miles from populated coastlines.
On Friday, 13 September, Greenpeace activists donned nuclear waste barrels again to bear witness outside the Federal Court. Inside, a decision on the construction of a new reactor at Sydney’s Lucas Heights was about to be handed down.
As the Earth Summit ended, Greenpeace and other groups took action against the inaction of world leaders. In particular, we challenged the United States’ claims that it behaved as a responsible planetary citizen in Johannesburg.
Some welcome announcements at the Earth Summit have shown up Australia as a selfish member of a fast-shrinking club. As leader of the world’s worst greenhouse polluter per capita, why is John Howard still refusing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol?
