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A Guide to the Murray Darling Basin

Water Under the Bridge

By Kate Jennings

Settle down. I insulted the Greens on purpose to get your attention. Green-ish myself. Climate change? Happening. Melting poles, warming oceans. People, do something! But if I’d started by discussing tillage fractures or SER statistics, you would’ve drifted, flipped the page. I also wanted to make a point about insults. If you begin an op-ed piece, as Tim Flannery did in the Age, with “

Tim Flannery’s 'Here on Earth'

Primary Care

By Christine Kenneally

For many years, India’s White-rumped Vulture population was large and thriving, but from the late 1990s the number of vultures suddenly declined. So precipitous was the drop that 97% of the birds disappeared over 15 years. As they died out, the animals they once scavenged were left to rot. Cattle carcasses piled up, feral dogs increased in number and the spectre of a rabies epidemic grew. T

Nuclear Dawn

By Malcolm Knox

The one constant is the belief of nuclear proponents – as durable as a radioactive isotope – in their technology. Even though the political momentum for introducing nuclear energy in Australia has been lost, advocates are supremely confident that the ‘nuclear renaissance’, touted for years and firmly underway elsewhere in the world, is less than a decade from reaching the last advanced economy to resist it.*As a budding scientis

Recent Books about Climate Change

Six Degrees of Apocalypse

By Clive Hamilton

Travels Through a Recovering Landscape

Silent Country

By Tim Winton

I remember driving through wheat country on winter's nights as a boy to see mile upon mile of burning windrows, whose parallel lines were like the columns of an army on the march. When I was a kid, the sons of wheat farmers believed they would inherit somethin

Making Sense of the Flores Find

Lovely Bones

By Ashley Hay

This something took three days to extricate. It was a skeleton, so tantalisingly conserved that some of its sections were still joined, and so fragile that it had the consistency of wet blotting paper. The researchers thought it was a pre-modern child; they to

Tim Flannery's wake-up call to the planet

Be Afraid

By E.M. Holdsworth

I love going down the freeway in Shanghai and looking up at the apartment buildings … There’s an airconditioner in every residential window, which is fantastic.—Chip Goodyear, August 2005We create CO2 every time we drive a car, cook a meal or turn on a light, and