Scientists from Western Australia's Curtin University of Technology are using acoustic sensors developed to support the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to listen for the sound of icebergs breaking away from the giant ice sheets of the south … [Read more...] about Can You Hear the Ice Break?
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Fielding the Hard Questions on Climate Change (Part 2)
IN the Australian Parliament, or more particularly the Australian Senate, the vote of one senator may be important for the passage of the government’s cap and trade legislation, also known as the emission trading scheme. Senator Steve Fielding … [Read more...] about Fielding the Hard Questions on Climate Change (Part 2)
Wheat Crops and Sunspots
"IT is now more than 200 years since the great astronomer William Herschel observed a correlation between wheat prices and sunspots. When the latter were few in number, he noted, the climate turned colder and drier, crop yields fell and wheat prices … [Read more...] about Wheat Crops and Sunspots
Eco-terrorist Target Coal
GREEN activists are under pressure to dob in eco-terrorists who threatened the Hazelwood power station's boss. Read more here. … [Read more...] about Eco-terrorist Target Coal
Masses Protest for More Government
Hundreds of environmental activists took to the streets of Australia's main cities on Saturday, saying the Labor government was not doing enough on climate change. The protests came ahead of a vote in the upper house Senate next week on the … [Read more...] about Masses Protest for More Government
The Already Bankrupt Brown Green
IN the south east of Tasmania, there was once a thriving timber town known as Wielangata. In its heyday it had a general store, bakery, blacksmiths’ shops, school and of course several saw mills. Wielangta was ravaged by bushfires in the 1920s and … [Read more...] about The Already Bankrupt Brown Green
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
