After 14 years Iceland has resumed commercial whaling by using the well-worn excuse of science. Yesterday Icelandic whalers killed their first minke whale.
Australia’s genetically engineered food labelling laws have so many loopholes that most GE foods get away without labelling. A chicken that is fed entirely on a diet of GE feed won’t be labelled GE when it hits the supermarket shelves. Canola oil made from 100 per cent GE canola doesn’t have to be labelled either.
In January 2003, Professor David Karoly, an Australian member of the world climate science body, the IPCC, wrote that “This is the first drought in Australia where the impact of human-induced global warming can be clearly observed."
On this day in 1945, the world’s first nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The death, suffering and destruction which followed were unprecedented in the history of war.
After 18 years of delays, bureaucracy and invasions, an indigenous group of people to the Amazon, the Deni, have finally won the recognition and protection of their lands.
In a historic victory for the environment and indigenous rights, the Northern Territory government has approved plans to clean up the Jabiluka uranium mine in Kakadu National park.
