Will our grandkids find Nemo? Hopes & fears for our big blue
It’s hard to know how to feel sometimes about the future of our oceans. A recent discovery of a plastic-eating bacterium had our office getting excited about the potential for […]
Category Archives: climate change
Where will our water come from?
Australia: the world’s driest inhabited continent. And yet we’ve managed very successfully to provide ready access to sweet, fresh water to our denizens despite our limited and variable freshwater resources […]
Keep it in the ground!
If you’re not aware of The Guardian’s campaign to urge the world’s two biggest charitable funds to move their money out of fossil fuels, then check out the website for […]
Is humanity in the danger zone?
(and where is Tom Cruise when you really need him, hey?? Anyway…) A recent article published in the esteemed Science journal has suggested that delegates attending the December 2015 UN’s […]
We’re going coastal with CHRMAP!
Essential Environmental is currently gearing up for a new series of coastal projects based in the Shire of Northampton and closer to home, in the coastal node of Alkimos in the […]
Urban Heat Island effect – how do we stop our cities from baking?
The Urban Heat Island effect was first described over a century ago as a phenomenon where air temperatures in densely built urban areas were higher than temperatures in surrounding rural areas. It […]
Climate change 2013: IPCC report no. 5 & the nuclear debate renewed
At the end of September this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released their latest summary on the scientific, technical and socio-economic aspects of climate change. The first document […]
