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 […]
UN demands independent investigation into downing of Malaysian airliner
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 […]
Southern MH370 air search called off until morning
The Australian-led air search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was called off this evening without anything being found. The search teams are scouring the remote waters of the southern Indian Ocean to […]
Satellite imagery shows possible MH370 debris
Australia’s prime minister, Tony Abbott, announced in parliament today that satellite imagery shows two objects in the southern Indian Ocean that could be debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Military aircraft […]
Frustration of MH370 relatives boils over in emotional protest
There were emotional scenes at the Sama-Sama hotel at Kuala Lumpur’s international airport today when relatives of Chinese passengers on board the missing flight MH370 came to the hotel where the press […]
MH370 search now covers millions of square nautical miles
The area of land and sea being covered in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 measures more than 2.24 million square nautical miles – an area the size of Australia. In […]
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