Dr. Ian Storey, lecturer at Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, outlines…
Category: Environment
The Evolution Of Energy – From Fossil Fuels To Renewables
We marvel at the extraordinary success of Tesla in becoming the world’s…
OH Honey!
Over the past few years we have been interviewing Simon Mulvany of…
CO2 From Air Into Beer
CSIRO has found a way of capturing carbon dioxide directly from the…
Honey Giant Withdraws Legal Action Against Activist Simon Mulvany
The legal battle that has ground on for years between beekeeper activist…
3D-Printed Fake Fish To Hit Supermarket Shelves
San Diego start-up BlueNalu has found a way to make a plant-based…
Post Fires, Will Australia Reconsider Climate Change? (Part 2)
The bushfire emergency has killed over a billion animals and decimated national…
Is Extreme Weather The New Normal?
With bushfires still burning out of control in South Eastern Australia, the…
Post Fires, Will Australia Reconsider Climate Change?
With 1.5% of Australia’s land mass burnt in disastrous bushfires – an…
Climate Change, Not Just A Rogue Asteroid, Killed The Dinosaurs
Fossilised Antarctic seashells show the planet was unstable, warmed by intense volcanism,…
World’s Oceans Have A Million Times More Plastic Than We Thought
New measurement methods show that pieces of plastic smaller than 5 mm…
The World’s Darkest Skies
The River Murray International Dark Sky Reserve in South Australia is a…
Coming To Grips With The Science Behind Buruli Ulcers
Piers talks with leading experts on Buruli ulcers Professor Tim Stinear of…
Lab-grown Meat Coming Of Age
Production costs are falling dramatically and the day may come when a…
How To Do More With Melbourne’s Class A Sewage (Part 2)
A staggering 350 million litres of recycled water is pumped from Gunnamatta…
How To Do More With Melbourne’s Class A Sewage (Part 1)
A staggering 350 million litres of recycled water is pumped into the…
Taking Aim At The Flesh-Eating Buruli Ulcer
A dangerous and hard-to-treat ulcer is spreading among residents and visitors on…
Antibiotics, Illicit Drugs And Effluent Polluting Our Waterways
Whether it’s antibiotics polluting the world’s major rivers, illicit drugs – especially…
A Clean And Green Alternative To Styrofoam
Researchers at Washington State University have invented an environmentally-friendly foam made from…
China’s Growing Footprint In Antarctica
China and others are rapidly expanding their presence in Antarctica – not…
Some Good News About Plastic
Big companies like Samsung and KFC are curtailing their use of single…
An Update From Bee Activist Simon Mulvany
Simon gives the low down on his recent activism, including the removal…
World’s Biggest Air Purifier
China is building enormous towers in an effort to scrub dangerous pollution…
ACCC Denies Results Of German Honey Tests
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission reckons that the nuclear magnetic resonance…
Bee Expert Mulvany Weighs Tilt At Federal Politics
After getting more than 4% of the primary vote in the Victorian…
Electriq’s Water-based Fuel
An Australian/Israeli start up has developed a clean, efficient and cost effective…
Update On Australian Battery Storage Tech
Victoria is following in the footsteps of the world’s biggest battery at…
Latest CSIRO Funding For AI And Space
Australia’s national science agency is spending up on space technology and AI.…
Details Emerge Of Capilano’s Law Suit
Simon Mulvany of Save The Bees Australia takes us through some of…
Capilano Honey Law Suit Grinds On
Simon Mulvany of Save The Bees Australia has been embroiled in a…
The Dangers To Humans And Bees Of The Herbicide Round Up
Monsanto has been ordered to pay $290m to Dewayne Johnson, a Californian…
Anachronistic Arachnophobia
Peptides extracted from Australia’s deadly funnel web spider appear to be very…
Killer Drones To Hunt Down Crown Of Thorns
RangerBot, developed at the Queensland University of Technology, is a compact autonomous…
Food Fraud – Honey Industry Whistleblower Vindicated
After recent ABC News revelations about adulterated imported honey from China, activist…
Food Fraud – German Testing Exposes Fake Honey On Sale In Australia
Independent analysis using nuclear magnetic resonance at the Quality Services International lab…
The White Cliffs Project: Conserving Australia’s Engineering Heritage
Graeme Hanigan, Secretary of White Cliffs Solar Thermal Power Station Friends Inc,…
CSIRO Hydrogen Membrane “A Watershed Moment For Energy”
Hydrogen derived from ammonia could soon be powering cars in Japan, Korea…
The Problem (And Opportunity) Of E-Waste
What to do with old phones, laptops, TVs, printers, monitors, cables and…
Issues Facing The World’s Bees (Part 3)
In the final part of our interview with professional apiarists Simon Mulvany…
Cedar Anderson On Inventing And Crowd-Funding The Flow Hive
The co-inventor of the Flow Hive and founder of Beeinventive describes the…
Issues Facing The World’s Bees (Part 2)
Simon and Ben discuss different approaches to bee keeping in different parts…
Issues Facing The World’s Bees (Part 1)
In the first of a three part interview, bee experts Simon Mulvany…
Chipping Away At The Global Problem Of Plastic Pollution
To find an alternative to cellophane, NZ biotech start-up Humble Bee looks…