1) In Sweden there’s an old pagan custom with big bonfires on April 30, called the Walpurgis Night. Unfortunately, many hedgehogs have been hiding out in the stacks /piles of old trees and branches that will be lit during the night and many fatal … [Read more...] about Wildlife Accidents Part 2 – A Note From Ann Novek
EU Renewables Plan to Cost £160 per Household
EU plans call for the UK to increase its use of renewables in the energy mix from the current 5% to 15% by 2020. An independent British government commissioned report for BERR, the Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, shows that … [Read more...] about EU Renewables Plan to Cost £160 per Household
Australia’s Emissions Trading System to Cost Business $22 Billion
THE Rudd Government's planned carbon trading system will cost business between $14billion and $22billion a year and will have to be considered in a review of the taxation system. Taxation Institute director Michael Dirkis yesterday said that the … [Read more...] about Australia’s Emissions Trading System to Cost Business $22 Billion
First Australian NASA Astronaut: An Ice Age Cometh
Phil Chapman is a geophysicist and astronautical engineer who lives in San Francisco. He was the first Australian to become a NASA astronaut. Excerpt: The first sunspot appeared in January this year and lasted only two days. A tiny spot appeared … [Read more...] about First Australian NASA Astronaut: An Ice Age Cometh
Antarctic Deep Sea Gets Colder
The Antarctic deep sea gets colder, which might stimulate the circulation of the oceanic water masses. This is the first result of the Polarstern expedition of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association … [Read more...] about Antarctic Deep Sea Gets Colder
Melanie Reid on Eco-Fundamentalists
Long before we are extinguished by global food shortages or raised sea levels, I predict, we are fated to die of boredom, struck down in our prime by the devastating virus 0157eco-smugness. Doctors will be powerless to stop as the bug invades our … [Read more...] about Melanie Reid on Eco-Fundamentalists
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
