Planet Watch
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Planet Watch: Regenerative agriculture as one answer to planetary crisis
Over the last few decades, modern industrialised agriculture has wrought havoc on natural systems. It has razed forests, decimated biodiversity, and has done immense damage to soils.
11 days ago | Willow Hallgren | 4 Planet Watch, Articles & Columns -
Planet Watch: the madness and corruption of unconventional gas
The people of the Northern Rivers of NSW breathed a big sigh of relief when they stopped the unconventional gas industry at Bentley. But the industry didn't stop when it hit resistance – it simply went around us, and left the region in a false bubble of security.
25 days ago | David Lowe | 3 Planet Watch, Articles & Columns -
Planet Watch: Deforestation leads to more disease
Conserving primary forest and its biodiversity will reduce the likelihood of future disease outbreaks including pandemics like COVID-19, Ebola.
July 3, 2020 | Willow Hallgren | 5 Planet Watch, Articles & Columns -
Planet Watch: Is hydrogen the fuel of the future?
There's been a lot of hot air in the media recently about hydrogen. The problem is that there's hydrogen and then there's hydrogen.
June 16, 2020 | David Lowe | 21 Planet Watch, Articles & Columns
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Planet Watch: Regenerative agriculture as one answer to planetary crisis
Over the last few decades, modern industrialised agriculture has wrought havoc on natural systems. It has razed forests, decimated biodiversity, and has done immense damage to soils.
11 days ago | Willow Hallgren | 4 -
Planet Watch: the madness and corruption of unconventional gas
The people of the Northern Rivers of NSW breathed a big sigh of relief when they stopped the unconventional gas industry at Bentley. But the industry didn't stop when it hit resistance – it simply went around us, and left the region in a false bubble of security.
25 days ago | David Lowe | 3 -
Planet Watch: Deforestation leads to more disease
Conserving primary forest and its biodiversity will reduce the likelihood of future disease outbreaks including pandemics like COVID-19, Ebola.
July 3, 2020 | Willow Hallgren | 5 -
Planet Watch: Is hydrogen the fuel of the future?
There's been a lot of hot air in the media recently about hydrogen. The problem is that there's hydrogen and then there's hydrogen.
June 16, 2020 | David Lowe | 21 -
Planet Watch: As the NSW North Coast heats up what does it mean for you?
The North Coast region of NSW has already experienced significant climate change: average temperatures on the east coast of Australia have increased by around 0.7 °C compared to pre-industrial levels, and this warming trend is expected to continue.
June 2, 2020 | Willow Hallgren | 6 -
Planet Watch: the great global experiment
One hidden gift of this pandemic is time to reflect. As the meme goes, 'It's like the Earth just sent us all to our rooms to think about what we've done'.
May 19, 2020 | David Lowe | 9 -
Planet Watch: Climate change and disease
As we find ourselves in the midst of a one-in-100-year global pandemic, now is the time to reflect on the way in which human activities help bring about the creation of new diseases and the spread of existing diseases.
May 5, 2020 | Willow Hallgren | 13 -
Planet Watch – Roadblocks to renewables
The Australian political response to the COVID-19 pandemic has proved that governments can act quickly if conditions demand it, even if that means overturning longstanding ideological obstacles.
April 14, 2020 | David Lowe | 2 -
Planet Watch: Emergency on planet Earth
The knowledge of both anthropogenic climate change and the term ‘biodiversity’ have profoundly reshaped both our behaviour and the way in which humans see ourselves in relation to our environment.
March 30, 2020 | Willow Hallgren | 1 -
Planet Watch: A hot topic – Energy in the age of global warming
Australians have now experienced some of the devastating impacts of what a global heating of just one degree looks like. We must decarbonise our economy, and the earlier we do this, the less painful and costly it is going to be.
March 10, 2020 | Willow Hallgren | 5 -
Planet Watch: Drowning not waving – tales from a dying ocean
This month Planet Watch explores how climate change will affect the oceans and its creatures.
February 10, 2020 | Willow Hallgren | 16 -
Planet Watch: Farmers, forests & climate change
Farmers, forests and climate change: The way that humans use and change the land and its vegetation can have a profound effect on the climate, and can either counteract or exacerbate climate change.
January 13, 2020 | Willow Hallgren | 13
