WHEN news headlines simultaneously suggested that both warm weather and cold weather might adversely affect frog populations, there was some mocking from climate change sceptics. [1, 2] But given the extraordinary impact of the pathogenic fungus, … [Read more...] about Changing Temperatures Likely to Impact Frogs
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A Female ‘Black’ Satin Bowerbird
The following picture of a female 'black' satin bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, was taken in Katoomba on January 31, 2009, by Jennifer Marohasy. … [Read more...] about A Female ‘Black’ Satin Bowerbird
New Jungles
By one estimate, for every acre of rain forest cut down each year, more than 50 acres of new forest are growing in the tropics on land that was once farmed, logged or ravaged by natural disaster. Read more here in the New York Times. This good … [Read more...] about New Jungles
New ‘Save the Sea Kittens’ Campaign
Who could possibly want to put a hook through a sea kitten? Read more here. [Via Wes George] … [Read more...] about New ‘Save the Sea Kittens’ Campaign
Gillian Hogendyk Finalist in Rural Woman’s Award
GILLIAN Hogendyk is passionate about the Macquarie Marshes and, with her husband Chris, is involved in the restoration of a block they purchased some years ago. In part because of this work, Gillian has been selected as a finalist in this year’s … [Read more...] about Gillian Hogendyk Finalist in Rural Woman’s Award
So Hot in Southern Australia, and In 1900
IT has been very hot in southern Australia. I have been waiting to hear someone blame global warming and it came, but only today, and I've only heard it from Climate Change Minister Penny Wong: "The scorching weather across southern Australia proved … [Read more...] about So Hot in Southern Australia, and In 1900
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
