Australian Labor - 'C' word scrubbed right out of its latest carbon tax ads

The Australian Gillard Labor Government has mounted a $36.1 million TV advertisement campaign to promote its latest hand-outs to poor or middle income Australians - but it doesn't mention that these are actually compensation for their newly-imposed Carbon Tax. i.e. taking with on …

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BREAKING: Case of 'mad cow disease' found in California animal, but food supply said safe - The Washington Post

Mad cow disease is linked to about 225 cases worldwide of a fatal human brain aliment known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.  The first American case of mad cow disease since 2006 was found this week in a dairy cow in California. “The beef and dairy in the Am …

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Occupy v. Whole Foods? Rebel Farmers and Activists Take Over Land Slated for Development and Start a Farm

Invoking the spirit of international peasant farmer movements La Via Campesina and Brazil's Movimento Sem Terra, hundreds of people entered a five-acre plot of land at the Berkeley/Albany border on Sunday April 22, in one of this spring's first high-profile actions of the Occup …

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Professor: If you want to roll the climate dice, you should know the odds

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Climate change: on worsening Arctic Sea ice melt and coal mine canaries

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Oz professor - Gaia theory of Dr James Lovelock FRS: is it science yet?

Professor Ian Enting: "In discussing the concept of Gaia, Lovelock now distinguishes: Gaia hypothesis: the original version — the Earth’s organisms regulate the physical and chemical components of the earth system so as to maintain the planet as an optimal habitat f …

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Valley farmers may have cure for poisoned cropland thanks to Cactus

The prickly pear cactus may not sound like a trendy cash crop, but it could become a phenomenon among farmers on the arid west side of the San Joaquin Valley. The cactus can grow in the west-side's salty soils, drink briny water and live just fine in very dry times.

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Durban: Planning the Green Climate Fund so it works for African farmers

Niggol Seo (Research Fellow, Climate Change Economics, Sydney University) on the Durban Climate Change Conference outcome: "With long odds against a major breakthrough on a global mitigation policy, the Conference took important steps towards the “Green Climate Fund”. …

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