Posts Tagged ‘australia’

Creepy Headline of the Day

Kangaroo Scrotums are the New Victims of Global Warming While reading this new piece from Vice magazine, I thought it was an Onion-like gag. I mean, really? Climate change is a huge concern for many, many reasons: the ice caps are melting, droughts are sweeping the world, and mega-hurricanes are striking cities that have never before had…Continue Reading…

R.I.P. Australia

The headline of this long feature in Rolling Stone suggests an epitaph: Climate Change and the End of Australia I’m generally a fan of Jeff Goodell’s work, but everything I find frustrating about the climate debate is on display in this paragraph: In the past year ““ one of the hottest on record ““ extreme…Continue Reading…

Journalism's Unbearable Paucity of Links

It’s bad enough when print magazines fail to use links when they migrate stories online. But it’s inexusable for online magazines. In this case, I’m referring specifically to Yale’s Environment 360. While reading Keith Schneider’s piece on Australia’s growing concerns about climate change, I found it so annoying that I couldn’t click to obvious avenues…Continue Reading…