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Bushfires … heatwaves … floods …
Greenpeace’s condolences go out to those Australians who have lost loved ones and homes in the horrific bushfires which continue to rage out of control in Victoria. Australia is in the midst of it’s worst natural disaster with the death toll from the bushfires reaching over 100. The fires have spread on the back of…
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Was climate change a key factor in Darfur?
It’s a question posed by Stephan Faris in his new book Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, From the Amazon to the Arctic. Tee Lim, our volunteer Communications Intern, reviews the book. Forecast is a relatively quick and accessible account of the many and varied ways in which climate change is affecting regions and communities,…
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An open letter to Kevin Rudd on climate
Today Greenpeace released this joint statement, together with over 50 Australian environmental organisations. Any day now the Federal Cabinet will be making a decision about the target for cutting greenhouse emissions over the next decade. It’s a crucial moment. We’ll find out what the target is on the 15th – when we will know if…
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Diet Coal or Pure Spin? “Clean Coal” Gets Re-badged In The Spin Cycle
Today the Australian Coal Association launched its $2.5 million advertising campaign to convince the Government and the good people of Australia that a) it cares about climate change and b) that it has a solution that will allow us to keep digging up coal and burning it without killing the planet. But somehow, despite…