As the leaders of the G20 countries met behind the Brisbane barricades, thousands of demonstrators marched through the sweltering and otherwise virtually deserted streets. Chanting “Genocidal 20”, the protesters walked from Roma […]
G20 protesters march through Brisbane
Forest pledges multiply as palm oil companies respond to clean-up demands
Deforestation in Indonesia (Photo by Roni Bintang) The number of multinational companies that say they are committed to supplying and using only deforestation-free palm oil is growing fast. More than twenty global […]
Scientists announce koala vaccine breakthrough
Scientists in Australia announced today that they have conducted the first successful field trial of a vaccine against chlamydia in koalas. Chlamydia is a main cause of koala deaths. It can cause […]
Ag-gag law defeated in Australia
A proposed law that would have introduced US-style ag-gag legislation into Australia has been defeated. Members of the South Australian Legislative Council voted down the Surveillance Devices Bill 2014, which would have […]
UN demands independent investigation into downing of Malaysian airliner
The United Nations Security Council has demanded a full, independent, and international investigation into the apparent shooting down of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine. Council members stood for a minute’s silence in […]
Palm oil company director sentenced to jail for illegal forest clearance in Indonesia
Tripa burning in 2012; photo by Carlos Quiles. The director of the Indonesian palm oil company PT Kallista Alam, Subianto Rusyid, has been found guilty of illegally clearing peat forest in Aceh, […]
Australian legislators aim to gag animal rights activists
Ag-gag laws that hinder or gag animal protection activists are becoming increasingly widespread in the United States and there are moves in Australia to start a similar crack-down. Several Australian politicians have […]
UNESCO to debate endangered listing for Great Barrier Reef
UNESCO is set to debate whether Australia’s Great Barrier Reef should be listed as endangered. Ahead of the annual meeting of the World Heritage Committee, which begins in Doha, Qatar, on June […]
Greenpeace calls for urgent action to prevent deadly peatland fires in Indonesia
Greenpeace International says more than 100,000 people are dying each year because they are inhaling smoke particles from peatland fires in Indonesia. The environmental organisation has called on the Indonesian president Susilo […]
Concerned scientists urge action on Monsanto superweeds
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is calling for action to halt the devastation being caused by herbicide-resistant superweeds. The union, based in the United States, is urging Congress and the US […]
Preliminary report into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
AUDIO CLIP: Audio from MH370 and Kuala Lumpur Air Traffic Control Maps indicating the investigators’ assessments of routes MH370 may have taken. The suggested flight paths differ based on different projections of […]
Malaysia releases MH370 air traffic control transcript
The Malaysian authorities have released the transcript of the final communications between air traffic control and missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and say “there is no indication of anything abnormal”. The transcript […]
MH370 update
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has released its end-of-day statement for March 28. It is included in an updated version of my latest MH370 round-up. Updated article
Plane crew spots possible debris in new MH370 search zone
Five of the reconnaissance aircraft scouring the southern Indian Ocean today for wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 found objects that could be debris from the plane. The objects were sighted […]
Thai satellite sighting adds weight to MH370 crash conclusion
There has been another satellite sighting of objects that could be debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. This is the fifth satellite lead In the search for wreckage, and this time […]
Correction
Correction to yesterday’s article “New satellite images narrow MH370 search” The possible objects are not far from an earlier Chinese satellite sighting. They are spread over an area of ocean measuring about […]
New satellite images narrow MH370 search
Satellite images, provided to Malaysia by Airbus Defence and Space in France, show 122 potential objects in the southern Indian Ocean that could be wreckage from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane MH370. […]
Chinese MH370 families protest over ‘fatal crash’ announcement
The chairman of Malaysia Airlines, Mohammad Nor Yusof, said today that, based on the new evidence announced by Malaysia’s prime minister yesterday, it had to be accepted that flight MH370 was lost […]
France provides satellite data about possible MH370 debris
France today provided satellite data about objects that could be debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The French authorities sent the data to Malaysia this morning and Malaysia immediately relayed it […]
Chinese satellite detects possible MH370 debris
A Chinese satellite has detected a floating object in the southern Indian Ocean that could be debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The object is 22.5 metres long and 13 metres […]
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