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Are global conservation efforts enough to save the environment?

Environmental movements have produced some impressive

How can it be that, 20 years after whaling was 'banned', whales continue to be harpooned? How does Japan get away with bribing small nations to vote to reintroduce commercial whaling? Come on a global journey to follow

John Howard, climate change and the selling of Australia's future

Australia's climate is changing. Water shortage is chronic

In the third Quarterly Essay for 2008, Professor Tim Flannery investigates the latest climate science

Risk and the role of government and industry

A seasoned environmental educator and researcher addresses the issue of environmental policy over the last three decades and asks: How has government responded to environmental

This is the book that blows the whistle on the politics of global warming in Australia. Why have our political leaders been so slow to

A fascinating account of the recurring fights over Tasmania's natural resources that have torn its people apart for three decades.

A farsighted and powerful manifesto for clear thinking from Al Gore, former Vice President of the USA and author of An Inconvenient Truth.

Provocative, personal, and inspirational, The Green Collar Economy is not a dire warning but rather a substantive

The Still-Burning Bush traces the environmental and social significance of the use of fire to shape the environment through Australian history, beginning with Aboriginal usage, and the

Any day saving a whale is a good day to die.

In 2005 adventure–writer Peter Heller joined the crew of the vegan pirate ship the Farley

Globalisation, energy, international crime, Weapons of Mass Destruction, nuclear proliferation, small arms proliferation, international drugs