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French Experts Say Doubts Remain on GMO Maize Risks Updated: 2008-01-11 19:47:31 Description: French experts said on Wednesday serious doubts remained over whether the only genetically modified (GMO) crop grown in France was safe, a move likely to prompt the extension of a current ban on GMOs. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Corn... fuel... fire! U.S. corn subsidies promote Amazon deforestation Updated: 2008-01-11 19:47:27 Description: According to Laurance, whose findings are reported this week in Science (December 14), a recent spike in Amazonian fires is being promoted by massive US subsidies that promote American corn production for ethanol. The ethanol is being blended with g...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Greens slam environmental law overhaul - Environment Australia Updated: 2006-12-09 19:47:27 Description: Parliament has approved a major overhaul of Australia's environmental laws which green groups have lamented as a backward step for the country's natural habitat. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Apple may be cool but it comes last on green list - Environment Australia Updated: 2006-12-09 19:47:27 Description: Apple Computer may be cool and hip with consumers, but it is anything but a trend-setter when it comes to good environmental policies, Greenpeace says. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD San Diego to ban Wal-Mart Supercenters - Environment Australia Updated: 2006-12-08 19:47:27 Description: The City Council here voted late Tuesday to ban certain giant retail stores, dealing a blow to Wal-Mart Stores Inc's potential to expand in the nation's eighth-largest city....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jimmy Carter: Israeli 'domination' over Palestinians is 'atrocious' - Environment Australia Updated: 2006-12-08 19:47:27 Description: Former Democratic President Jimmy Carter called Israeli "domination" over Palestinians "atrocious" during an interview Monday on ABC's Good Morning America. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Growth of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accelerating - CSIRO Updated: 2006-12-08 19:47:27 Description: Global emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide have more than doubled since 1990 and the rate of increase is accelerating, according to new information gathered and analyzed by the Australian government research service. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 'I can't go to Iraq. I can't kill those children' - Suicide soldier's dying words to his mother Updated: 2006-12-08 19:47:27 Description: While his peers from St Augustine's Catholic school were this month contemplating university careers or first jobs, Jason Chelsea was preoccupied with a different future: his first tour of duty in Iraq. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Australia lagging behind in solar uptake Updated: 2006-11-10 19:47:27 Description: Positive action in Germany has seen the industry boom with more than 30,000 jobs, while Australia is stagnant. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Wind industry sniffs new direction Updated: 2006-11-10 19:47:27 Description: The Australian wind energy lobby group believes there are progressive attitudes towards the renewable energy on the Australian scene ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rivers in crisis yet crops off hit list - Environment Australia Updated: 2006-11-09 19:47:27 Description: THE Murray-Darling river system could run out of water within six months, the Federal Government has warned. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD UN turns up heat on Australia - Environment Australia Updated: 2006-11-09 19:47:27 Description: THE head of the United Nations environment body has defended the Kyoto Protocol from attack by the Australian Government, and called on politicians to stop making decisions about climate change "based on narrow national self-interest". ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Wild Jatropha Stirs Hope of Biodiesel Bounty in India Updated: 2006-11-09 19:47:27 Description: The glow from burning jatropha seed torches has often saved Maruti Chindu from treading on snakes, but now he carefully nurtures them for a use that he never imagined before -- running cars and trucks. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Green groups tackling climate change in Victoria election. Updated: 2006-11-09 19:47:27 Description: Environment groups have weighed into Victoria's election campaign, calling on political parties to back a seven-point plan to tackle climate change. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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