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Airlines have more than enough reasons to follow suit. Jet fuel costs have gone up 38% since spring 2006. Airline profit margins, which used to range between 5% and 7%, are now down to 2%. Merging with another carrier would allow an airline to reevaluate its hubs, reduce overlap in...
Peter Garrett "Climate change is the greatest challenge we face." Experience: Shadow Climate Change and Environment Minister; former Australian Conservation Foundation head and rock singer A star Labor recruit in 2004, Garrett has disappointed with a series of campaign blunders that could cost him the ministry, but he'll retain...
Australia generates 1.4% of global carbon emissions - mostly from coal-fired power stations - and that share is shrinking as Chinese and Indian emissions soar. No matter what Canberra does, the effects on the world's climate "are likely to be extremely small," says Australian National University economist Alex Robson, "almost...
Green as their hearts may be, for most Australians the environment seems to be a less pressing election issue than the economy or health care. Howard and Rudd are offering voters big tax cuts, and financial help with everything from first-home purchases to children's dentistry. Their rhetorical flourishes...
...continue. Yesterday’s event was the first in a series of discussion-based talks called Green Conversations that are to be held this year by Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE). The goal of these conversations is to invite a broad variety of players in the environmental arena to come speak at the University, according to Daniel P. Schrag, director of HUCE. When asked about the subtle moral message of his book, Weisman replied, “As a journalist I don’t preach, I simply show the facts, and the facts speak for themselves...