A meaningless sentence
The following is a guest post by David Morris, Principal Lawyer of the Environmental Defenders Office (NT). The Northern Territory already carries a 1 billion dollar burden...
Is destroying illegal ivory a really bad idea?
Governments around the world have in recent years destroyed their seized stockpiles of illegal ivory, egged on by the World Wildlife Federation which believes it...
Fracking off the gas drillers
This week's announcement by Pangaea Resources that it is suspending its NT onshore gas exploration drilling program and laying off 140 workers, following the Labor...
Don’t holler for a Marshall (Island) just yet
[caption id="attachment_28231" align="aligncenter" width="676"] From National Geographic[/caption] Julie Bishop is in strife with the left-leaning Twittersphere for making light of the plight of Pacific Islanders,...
Natural gas, global warming and the NT
I've written a few Northern Territory posts recently. This is another one, but it has some significant national implications (I think). Tuesday's announcement of Asian conglomerate...
Where are we with Geo-Engineering in 2014?
Geo-engineering is increasingly looking like the only politically viable way of averting temperature rises above 2 degrees in the coming century. This is for three...
The economic costs of pollution
Gray Matters: Fetal Pollution Exposure and Human Capital Formation by Prashant Bharadwaj, Joshua Graff Zivin, Matthew Gibson, Christopher A. Neilson Abstract: This paper examines the impact...