Many of Professor Don Aitkin’s sceptical comments regarding global warming stem from a misunderstanding of both climate science and the IPCC’s role, argues Dr Geoff Davies.

Is it possible that coal corporations know that carbon capture and storage is not viable, but continue to promote it to maintain share prices, questions Tony Troughton-Smith?

Sandra Kentish talks about desalination and the difference in purity and taste between desalinated or reclaimed water and rainwater.

Climate change - focusing on economics alone is to suggest that the market can sort it all out. But clearly it hasn't, can't and won't, argues Simon Roz.

Producers toy with scarcity, allowing fuel prices to soar, while the Earth edges closer to catastrophe, writes James Hansen.

It is possible for householders to work out how to dispose of their rubbish without using so many plastic bags, argues Valerie Yule.

With the emerging imperative for organisations to examine all avenues to reduce their environmental impacts, product stewardship schemes are seeing greater uptake – although the ‘how to’ still remains the main challenge in Australia.

The New Zealand Government has created and released a new document that provides the population with '25 easy steps towards sustainability'.

The CEO from the Cooperative Research Centre for Future Farm Industries (FFI CRC), Kevin Goss, explains why measures need to be put in place to ensure farmers remain productive and sustainable in a drying climate.

New research suggests that exposing native animals to smaller cane toads could teach them to stay away from the pests, before more dangerous invaders arrive.

Increasing temperatures and carbon dioxide levels are altering the nutrients in eucalypt leaves and posing a threat to koalas, according to new research.

A parasite that cane toads brought with them from the Amazon has been found to kill almost a third of the pests' babies, but leave Australian species unharmed.

Under the Sustainable Communities Initiative (SCI), CSIRO brings together partners from business, government and non-government organisations to work with communities to develop innovative solutions that address their local sustainability challenges.

Strong winds caused by cyclones can disperse weed seeds more than 40 times further than normal weather conditions, found the results of a new study.

International scientists are now in little doubt about the cause of a threat confronting up to one-third of all marine life: the 27 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide released each year by human activity are gradually dissolving into the ocean’s upper layers, turning them more acidic. Julian Cribb reports.