Growth in crop yields inadequate to feed the world by 2050 – research Agriculture productivity not rising fast enough to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population Share 58 inShare1 Email Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent guardian.co.uk, Friday 21 June 2013 02.21 AEST A Guatemalan farmer checks his maize crop. Photograph: Amanda Koster/Corbis If the Continue Reading →
Asbestos fears: concern hundreds exposed during Logan council work By Josh Bavas, ABCUpdated June 21, 2013, 6:12 pm tweet0 Email Print ABC © Enlarge photo A former Logan City council worker says he was told to dump asbestos cement in general landfill and fears hundreds of people may have been exposed to the deadly fibres. Continue Reading →
Brown warns against coalition Senate vote AAP June 21, 2013 2:56PM inShare Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print Email THE Senate will be effectively abolished as a watchdog for the people if the coalition wins control of both houses of parliament at the upcoming election, former Greens leader Bob Brown says. Mr Brown says Continue Reading →
Alaska’s Summer Temperatures Cause Floods While Residents Ward Off Record-Breaking Heat Reuters | Posted: 06/20/2013 11:53 am EDT 116 12 4 3 Get Green Alerts: Sign Up Follow: Extreme Weather, Alaska, Alaska Heat Wave, Alaska Heat Wave 2013, Alaska Heatwave, Alaska Heatwave 2013, Alaska Summer, Alaska Summer 2013, Alaska Summer Temperatures, Reuters, Summer Living, Continue Reading →
20 June 2013, 3.25pm EST Labor’s unpopularity could be a disaster for the Greens in the Senate too The publicly available opinion polls are in agreement about the fate of the Labor government. A landslide defeat in the House of Representatives is looming, the magnitude of which might place Julia Gillard alongside Bert Evatt, Arthur Calwell, Continue Reading →
7 June 2012 Scientists tip 2025 for possible planetary collapse by Will Parker Based on an evaluation of more than 1,000 previous studies, a new meta-review by an international group of 18 scientists suggests the Earth is perilously close to a tipping point where resource consumption, ecosystem degradation, climate change, biodiversity loss and population growth Continue Reading →