Tasmanian Times
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707War mongering
This story (Nuclear subs floated, reproduced below) smacks of war mongering, dizzying spending sprees and a further upgrading of a combined military...
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The Chronicle 59: In New Media is Grub Street reborn
Don Bentley had been brought up in the hot metal days of journalism but he found something exciting, pulsating about the electronic...
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President orders halt on logging in Philippine forests
Manila – Philippine President Benigno Aquino III ordered Thursday a moratorium on the cutting down of trees in the country’s fast dwindling...
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Latvia’s pulp fiction
The Baltic nation of Latvia is blessed with some of the most beautiful forests in the world, millions of square kilometres of...
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A Revolution in Our Atmosphere, From Burning Too Many Fossil Fuels
If you were in the space shuttle looking down yesterday, (below) you would have seen a pair of truly awesome, even fearful,...
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Mass tree deaths prompt fears of Amazon ‘climate tipping point’
Billions of trees died in the record drought that struck the Amazon in 2010, raising fears that the vast forest is on...
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The Science of GM Crops and Food – Fit For Public Consumption?
Presentation by Dr Brian John at the Launch of Independent Science Panel The Science of GM Crops and Food – Fit For...
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Naomi Oreskes – Merchants of Doubt
Despite data being collected for over half a century, despite a President being warned about the looming threat of a changing climate...
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The Coming Catastrophe of Growth, Migration and Population
Following the article in the Mercury 25-08-09, New Suburb Planned. Korean group’s $500m dream, I would like to express my strongest opposition...
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Origin of News Agencies
Napolean was crushed by the British at the Battle of Waterloo, south of Brussels. Field Marshall Arthur Wellesey, the Duke of Wellington,...
