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…