Nantucket Film Festival Celebrates Risk-Taking Writers

“Nantucket has been a creative refuge for decades,” multihyphenate Ben Stiller says. “The festival has coalesced the film-writing community and celebrated...

Explosive Intervention By Pope Francis Set To Transform Climate Change Debate

The most anticipated papal letter for decades will be published in five languages on Thursday. It will call for an end to the ?tyrannical? exploitation of nature by mankind...

Sydney Film Festival 2015: 10 Things To See And Do, From Scientology To Sushi Cinema

From a five-hour Filipino epic to a three-course Japanese meal and Blacktown’s retro drive-in, our critic picks top screenings and experiences to savourEvery year as ...

A Sound Economy Needs A Sound Environment

Going by our Intelligence Bureau (IB) and some of the voices in the government, anyone asking for the protection of the country’s forests, its rivers or its coasts is...

“To Be or Not To Be”

Nature gives the gift of life.

Law gives the right to life.

Who is to grant, not to live?

It is often a cause of wonderment why human ashes are grey...

Saudi Arabia Is Driving Down Oil Prices, and That Might Be Good for the Environment

When it comes to oil, Saudi Arabia has long been king. The desert monarchy sits on the world's largest proven reserves. Though its position as the world's top producer was ...

2014 Brought Lasting Action On Climate Change Policy

Some of the stories that gripped our attention in 2014 will probably be forgotten in a few years ? if not a few weeks. But there's one story that President Obama argues we'...

Irreversible But Not Unstoppable: The Ghost Of Climate Change Yet To Come

Unlike Scrooge, we don?t get a spirit to show us what the future holds if we don?t change our ways. That?s what we have science for. In recent years, observations have conf...

Scientists eye way to stop HIV infection

The battle against HIV and AIDS continues. The virus that causes these conditions has wreaked havoc on millions of lives. The World Health Organization estimates that, in 2...