How are we doing on the existential struggle of our time, the one to rein in our emissions of CO2? The end of a year seems a good time to take a reality check, especially since we have just concluded… Read More »Reality Check: The World at December 2014; Status of the Battle to Bring Climate Change under Control.
The G20 and the IUCN World Parks Congress Prime Minister Tony Abbott poses with the G20 leaders for the family photo in Brisbane. Stephen Harper, second row left, looks uncomfortable already. Barack Obama is not looking at his host. Photo:… Read More »Coral reefs, fossil fuels and climate change: Why Australia might be a luckier country than Canada.
This is another in my series of stories from a coral reef – stories in which I seek to tell about the wonders of this marvelous world, and what it has been like as a scientist trying to uncover just… Read More »Stories from a Coral Reef – Cleaner Fishes and Early Days at Heron Island