Simon Grose questions whether carbon trading is a "superficial exercise in carbon-shifting and guilt abatement".

The power of science and technology over human lives is rising inexorably - and so too is the power struggle over who governs science and how it should be done.

In the space of 12 months, the biofuels industry has gone from climate saviour to environmental scapegoat. But in the longer-term, it has a crucial – and sustainable – role to play.

Australian universities must do more to retain our best and brightest academics and researchers, the Minister for Education, Science and Training, says the Hon Julie Bishop MP.

The International Energy Agency, a body set up to advise OECD nations on energy supply and security, broke with its previous optimistic projections of world oil supply and threw the future of oil into doubt.

Karen Hussey knows a thing or two about water management. The political scientist is the Chair of the ANU Water Initiative, which brings together 80 researchers from a multitude of disciplines to look at how Australia and other nations are dealing with H2O.

Amid one of Australia’s worst droughts, the understanding and efficient management of groundwater supplies and their use has taken on a new urgency. Ageing metering infrastructure and weak guidelines on allocations and policing have led to profligate and illegal extraction. But new efforts to change this are underway. Strong policy action is now needed to see the tougher measures through. Max Berry reports.

New Zealand has a regulatory framework to protect the marine environment against human assaults and is now using a unique management model developed by Aotearoa Fisheries Limited to construct a sustainable crab fishing industry from scratch.

Distorted economics, coupled with ideologically driven decision making, is threatening Australia’s best efforts to preserve its natural heritage.

Business is tipping a record $8.4 billion a year into R&D and investment is ‘soaring’ in the wake of the Government’s 2001 tax changes, according to a cheery Industry Minister Ian MacFarlane. 

One of the best laws in the Western world on ecological protection, Australia's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (1999), is not being used when it comes to the widespread threat posed to the environment by foreign plants.

The cloning era, which started with a sheep from Scotland, may have effectively ended with a mouse from Japan. 

It is time justice was done and rich countries took responsibility for the damage their actions had or will have on poor countries as a direct effect of climate change. 

Cut speed limits and get unnecessary, big, four-wheel-drive cars off the roads.

Changes to the way academics will be assessed and funded are a hot topic in learned circles, with the Research Quality Framework looming next year if the Government retains office in the upcoming federal election.