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Oct 05

Marine biologist, Professor Callum Roberts, is leading the scientific community's push for a moratorium on deep sea destruction. Enlarge image

Save deep seas, say scientists

A letter signed by 100 marine scientists and other delegates urges the Australian government to help stop deep sea destruction. This follows similar recommendations from scientific communities in the UK and Canada to urgently ban the destructive fishing practice called bottom trawling.

Thai community leader, Charoen Detkhum (left), distributes information outside ANZ's head office in Sydney. ANZ is funding a coal-fired power plant in Thailand. Enlarge image

ANZ funds climate change

Australia exports huge piles of polluting coal to developing countries, making them increasingly addicted to the fuel. Australian banks offer huge loans to fund climate changing projects, like coal-fired power plants.

Forest Campaigner Nathan Argent chained to a palette of illegal rainforest plywood in London Enlarge image

Illegal logging destroys the world's last rainforests

The world's last rainforests are being destroyed through illegal and destructively logged timber, which is flooding markets throughout the world such as Australia and the UK.

Unless we significantly reduce greenhouse pollution, scientific studies show that coral reefs could disappear within 100 years due to bleaching. Enlarge image

Cross-examining the government on climate change

John Howard and his government publicly say they are committed to taking action on climate change by reducing greenhouse pollution.

A Trolley Watcher checking product labelling. Enlarge image

GE food found in supermarkets

Greenpeace Trolley Watch volunteers have completed a nationwide supermarket survey to see how many products containing genetically engineered (GE) ingredients are actually labelled.

Concentrated solar thermal power exploits the heat from the sun to combat climate change. Enlarge image

Sunny prospects for solar thermal

A solar thermal power project in the Hunter Valley, featured in a new report on solar thermal power by Greenpeace, the European Solar Thermal Power Industry Association (ESTIA) and IEA SolarPaces, puts the region at the forefront of a new energy industry with massive global potential.

Devastated: Victorian farmer Geoffrey Carracher holds the bag of GE seed that contaminated his field. "My 64 hectare crop worth $48,000 is now at risk." Enlarge image

Bayer contaminates Victorian canola field

A Victorian farmer is the first confirmed case in Australia of in-field contamination with Bayer’s genetically engineered (GE) canola.

The giant squid is the largest invertebrate that ever lived, growing up to 21.3 metres with eyes the size of dinner plates. Enlarge image

It's time to protect deep sea creatures

Life forms we haven't even seen yet are under threat by the fishing practise of deep sea bottom trawling. Every week the bottom trawling continues, fragile environments we are just beginning to understand are being wiped out.

Littering the planet with nuclear power plants won't put a lid on nuclear weapons. Enlarge image

Who won the Peace Prize? Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?

The Nobel Peace Prize, founded on a fortune made from explosives, has gone to the agency whose job it is to promote nuclear power without promoting nuclear weapons, and the man who heads it. Anybody with that job probably deserves some kind of prize.

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