Links to latest eco articles
Following is a list of various eco and enviro articles of interest selected from various websites. Please email your favourite eco- or enviro-tech articles and they will be added to this list.
Climate change
- GE says solar power cheaper than fossil fuel-based power in 5 years, 27/5/11
- Carbon solutions as political footballs, a great piece on facts about Australia's energy market, 27/5/11
- Japan's nuclear catastrophe: How nuclear apologists mislead the world over radiation
- Reading the Coca Leaves: Climate Change, Cancun and Bolivia
- Scientists Find 'Drastic' Shifts in Atlantic Currents Are Affecting Weather
- Soil may belch out CO2 to warm planet
- Red tides and desertification alarm Chinese scientists
- Top researchers: Global warming must be addressed immediately
- Scientists seek to ‘tighten up’ climate change forecasts
- Supercomputer finds climate likely to heat up fast
- Shell Oil chief: my fears for planet
- California seeks to force automakers to cut emissions
- UN says globe drying up at fast pace
- Christian, Jewish and Muslim Fundamentalists Agree that Natural Disasters Are God's Revenge on the Modern World
The 'Future' conversation
- Vision: How a Better Future Is Being Made Right Now
- Vision: Homemade Prosperity: How to Get Out of the Consumer Trap
The natural environment
- US bees in freefall - Disease and and low genetic diversity seen as cause
- GM crop safety a little seedy
- Pesticides indicted in bee deaths
- Plundering the oceans
Energy
- The relentless pursuit of cold fusion
- You are my sunshine: Let's look at solar thermal energy costs
Greenies are obsessed with solar energy, he's right. It's obvious why.
Paddy Manning 19/09/2009 Sydney Morning Herald - Qld Test project uses algae to recycle emissions
A new technology using algae to recycle carbon emissions from coal-fired power stations
Marian Wilkinson. 20/11/2009 Sydney Morning Herald - Touched by sun stroke
Taxpayers subsidising household solar power just doesn't add up, argues Mark Davis.
Sydney Morning Herald 06/06/2009 - Solar, wind power may meet 2020 energy use
A massive introduction of solar-thermal power plants and wind farms would allow Australia to generate all its energy needs from renewable technologies by 2020, research shows. Tom Arup, Sydney Morning Herald 22/06/2010 - Energy: it's time to start concentrating
After an interview with Australian solar energy pioneer David Mills in October, this column previewed a Stanford University study showing that renewable sources - principally wind and solar - could meet all of our energy needs.
Paddy Manning, Sydney Morning Herald 27/02/2010 - Nuclear likely to be priciest option
NUCLEAR energy will be more expensive than most forms of renewable energy by 2020, according to the University of NSW energy expert Mark Diesendorf. Sydney Morning Herald 01/12/2010
Food and agriculture
- U.S. Ploy to Promote GE Seeds and Pesticides to Mexican Farmers Is Impoverishing Their Communities
- Bamboo shoots and trees - some snakes in the grass
- GM crop safety a little seedy
- Our lost nutrients (Australia)
- New Research: Environmentally Caused Cancers Are 'Grossly Underestimated'
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