Fear in Havana "SIR, OPEN YOUR bags, please." My father lifts his enormous suitcases up on to the counter and unzips them. The... By Oren Siedler
Resource managers, altruists or just farmers? LIKE OTHER FARMERS in Australia's cropping belt, David Kreig was dismayed by the way the weather seemed to be... By Robert Milliken
We are all Tuvaluans View images of Tuvalu featured in Edition 12: Hot Air at photographer Jocelyn Carlin's website. TATOU NE TUVALU Katoa – "We are all... By Mark Hayes
The brown peril AS A STUDENT of Mandarin at Beijing's Tsinghua University in 1999, I made almost monthly visits to the home... By Chip Rolley
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... By
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