Despite government or corporate opposition the Greenpeace message gets out there and is more accepted than ever before, according to television personality Bert Newton.
Consumer demand for luxury flooring and furniture is driving a rare tree species to commercial extinction. And it will take more than the Australian government's global illegal logging fund to save it.
Australia faces more natural catastrophes (droughts, bush fires, heat waves, floods and storms) and the loss of many ecologically rich areas such as the Great Barrier Reef unless urgent action is taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to recent findings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
