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Check out the Green Alternative for environment news in Australia and around the world. The Environment Society of Australia has no political or financial affiliations, it is a volunteer community organisation working for the environment.

  1. 01/10/2008

    French Experts Say Doubts Remain on GMO Maize Risks

    French experts said on Wednesday serious doubts remained over whether the only genetically modified (GMO) crop grown in France was safe, a move likely to prompt the extension of a current ban on GMOs.

  2. 01/10/2008

    Corn... fuel... fire! U.S. corn subsidies promote Amazon deforestation

    According to Laurance, whose findings are reported this week in Science (December 14), a recent spike in Amazonian fires is being promoted by massive US subsidies that promote American corn production for ethanol. The ethanol is being blended with gasoline as an automobile fuel. "American taxpayers are spending $11 billion a year to subsidize corn producers—and this is having some surprising global consequences," said Laurance. The US is the world's leading producer of soy, but many American soy farmers are shifting to corn to qualify for the government subsidies. Since 2006, US corn production rose 19% while soy farming fell by 15%. The drop-off in US soy has helped to drive a major increase in global soy prices, which have nearly doubled in the last 14 months. In Brazil, the world's second-largest soy producer, high soy prices are having a serious impact on the Amazon rainforest and tropical savannas.

  3. 12/09/2006

    Apple may be cool but it comes last on green list - Environment Australia

    Apple Computer may be cool and hip with consumers, but it is anything but a trend-setter when it comes to good environmental policies, Greenpeace says.

  4. 12/09/2006

    Greens slam environmental law overhaul - Environment Australia

    Parliament has approved a major overhaul of Australia's environmental laws which green groups have lamented as a backward step for the country's natural habitat.

  5. 12/08/2006

    'I can't go to Iraq. I can't kill those children' - Suicide soldier's dying words to his mother

    While his peers from St Augustine's Catholic school were this month contemplating university careers or first jobs, Jason Chelsea was preoccupied with a different future: his first tour of duty in Iraq.

  6. 12/08/2006

    Growth of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accelerating - CSIRO

    Global emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide have more than doubled since 1990 and the rate of increase is accelerating, according to new information gathered and analyzed by the Australian government research service.

  7. 12/08/2006

    Jimmy Carter: Israeli 'domination' over Palestinians is 'atrocious' - Environment Australia

    Former Democratic President Jimmy Carter called Israeli "domination" over Palestinians "atrocious" during an interview Monday on ABC's Good Morning America.

  8. 12/08/2006

    San Diego to ban Wal-Mart Supercenters - Environment Australia

    The City Council here voted late Tuesday to ban certain giant retail stores, dealing a blow to Wal-Mart Stores Inc's potential to expand in the nation's eighth-largest city.

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