Internet of Things To Play Important Role In Future Of Agriculture
A new report titled, “Towards Smart Farming: Agriculture Embracing the IoT Vision”, researched and written by Beecham Research has suggested that Internet of Things (IoT) technology will have a crucial role to play in helping to meet the food demands of a growing global population. The report focuses on the opportunities provided by precision farming […]
Ecotricity Announces “Hybrid” Renewable Energy Parks
UK-based energy company Ecotricity has announced its plans to build three hybrid renewable energy parks, which will bring a mix of wind and sun power generation onto the same site. The parks will combine the two energy types into the same grid and are designed to provide a more consistent level of supply than either […]
Malcolm Turnbull's rhetorical dance around coal reveals extent of his constraint
The prime minister is impatient for Australia to be right in the thick of the clean energy race, but the policy he has inherited and the mentality of some of his party force him to trot out tired ‘energy poverty’ lines Related: Malcolm Turnbull: coal export ban ‘would make no difference to emissions’ Malcolm Turnbull […]
Ministers accused of trying to sneak through new fracking rules
Labour and Greenpeace condemn ‘deeply disturbing’ move to avoid full parliamentary debate on allowing drilling beneath protected areas Ministers have been accused of trying to sneak through new rules allowing shale drilling under national parks without a proper parliamentary debate, in a move condemned by Labour and anti-fracking campaigners. The rules, first proposed in July, […]
Malcolm Turnbull: coal export ban ‘would make no difference to emissions’
The prime minister dismissed the idea of a moratorium after prominent Australians wrote an open letter calling for discussion on a new coal mine ban Malcolm Turnbull has declared a moratorium on Australian coal exports “would make not the blindest bit of difference to global emissions” because importers would buy it from elsewhere. Related: Prominent […]
Helen Bender tells Q&A panel: 'You're just here for show' – video
Helen Bender addresses the Q&A panel in Toowoomba on Monday night. Her father, George Bender, killed himself this month after long battle against coal seam gas exploration on his Queensland farm. Days after her father’s funeral, she appeared on the program to ask when farmers would be granted refusal rights and to condemn politicians for […]
Hurricane Patricia powered by ‘high-octane’ El Niño
As Patricia, the biggest storm ever recorded in the western hemisphere, made landfall on the Mexican west coast on Friday Bill Patzert, climatologist at Nasa’s jet propulsion laboratory explained its origins. The current El Niño was “high-octane fuel for hurricanes” because it had “piled up a tremendous volume of warm water in the eastern Pacific”. […]
Q&A: George Bender's daughter accuses politicians of neglecting farmers
Helen Bender, whose father killed himself after long battle against coal seam gas, tells program’s panel: ‘I don’t believe any one of you politicians have listened’ The Nationals senator Fiona Nash has called for state laws enabling landholders to refuse access to gas companies, saying they are the “simple answer” to an issue brought into […]
Food industry greets cancer links with a shrug – it's been here before
History suggests food shoppers only change eating habits in short-term, hence muted reaction from food firms at processed meat and cancer links Supermarkets and food suppliers, already under fierce pressure over the amount of sugar in the nation’s food, could have done without more revelations about the health consequences of the food we eat. Continue […]
Children's health 'uniquely' affected by climate change, pediatricians say
American Academy of Pediatrics urges doctors and politicians to protect children from environmental threats, such as natural disasters and heat stress Children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, according to a new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). The statement, published in the online journal Pediatrics on Monday, urged […]