Members may be interested in these stories about the environment and the natural world. Green Notes includes links to news stories, podcasts, videos and more, with an emphasis on Australian stories and the latest science.
Animals
VIDEO: A Day in the life of a wild wolf
ARTICLE: War on seals: The ‘cruel measures’ used by Tasmania’s salmon farming industry
Conservation
ARTICLE: Indigenous practices might take some of the heat from our bushfire danger
AUDIO: Locking down nature in order to liberate it
Gardening
ARTICLE: How to grow new vegetables from kitchen scraps
History
ARTICLE: How Scientists and Archeologists Trace Beer and Wine through Antiquity
Invasive Species
Invertebrates
ARTICLE: Heroes, villains … biology: 3 reasons comic books are great science teachers
ARTICLE: Making music from spider webs
Photography
Plants
ARTICLE: Deciduous trees offset carbon loss from Alaskan boreal fires, new study finds
ARTICLE: How mangrove forests helped stall environmental crime
AUDIO: The strange case of the trees that grow metal and how to harvest them
Public Good
Does Australia need an authority like the United Kingdom’s Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR)? The OSR has a statutory objective of promoting and safeguarding the production and publication of official statistics that ‘serve the public good’. The public good includes:
- informing the public about social and economic matters
- assisting in the development and evaluation of public policy
- regulating quality and publicly challenging the misuse of statistics.
WEBSITE: Office for Statistics Regulation
Recycling
ARTICLE: The world’s first ‘infinite’ plastic
