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The age of horrorism

IT WAS MID-OCTOBER 2001, and night was closing in on the border city of Peshawar, in Pakistan, as my...

By Martin Amis

The gang of six lost in Kyotoland

THE ROTATING VAGARIES of diplomatic timetables decreed that the United States unveil its climate change trump card on the...

By Graeme Dobell

Knocking on the door

MY HOME IS in a small community on the New South Wales far south coast and when New Year's...

By James Woodford

Time, gentlemen, please

MUCH OF THE geology I once learned is long forgotten, but what remains, indelibly, is an awareness of time,...

By George Seddon (1927–2007)

It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it

THERE HAS BEEN a great deal of environmental change in the Australian region over the 50,000 years that people...

By Ian Lilley

Corals under siege

THERE'S NOT MUCH of a laugh to be had on the topic of global warming but American futurist Bruce...

By Rosaleen Love

Seven-tenths: random notes from the deep

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, ‘What if I had never seen this before?What if...

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Changing public attitudes to long-term issues

IF INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY is to survive, the next century will have to be a time of transformation, not just...

By Ian Lowe

Beyond greed

IS THIS WHOLE global warming scenario real or, as some newspaper columnists like to suggest, a massive conspiracy by...

By Peter Doherty

Riding Australia’s big dipper

AUSTRALIA'S HISTORY DURING the past 150 years has often revolved around fossil fuels. They have affected not only daily...

By Geoffrey Blainey

Sunset ports on the new trade routes

WHEN ERNESTINE HILL, the pioneering Australian journalist, visited what she called the "ports of sunset" on the West Australian...

By Stephen Muecke

Overloading Emoh Ruo: the rise and rise of hydrocarbon civilisation

Shortlisted, 2006 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, Science WritingShortlisted, 2006 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, Literary Work Advancing Public DebateShortlisted: 2006...

By Murray Sayle (1926–2010)