According to a new study, about 70% of the recent warming trend in the Atlantic Ocean is from reduced numbers of dust storms and volcanic eruptions. Other factors, such as a warming of the global climate, contribute only about 30% to the upward … [Read more...] about No Dust, Warms Atlantic Ocean?
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Clergyman Blames Climate Change
George Browning, the former Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn, told more than 2,000 people gathered in London's Westminster Abbey that human activity was causing climate change and extreme weather conditions. Read more here. … [Read more...] about Clergyman Blames Climate Change
Fire as a Threatening Process: A Note from Roger Underwood
ABOUT two months ago I received a “heads-up” from a mate who works in Canberra that Environment Minister Peter Garratt was considering listing prescribed burning as a threatening process under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Act. At … [Read more...] about Fire as a Threatening Process: A Note from Roger Underwood
Biotechnology and Food Production in Africa
In a world where almost a billion people went hungry last year—119 million more than in 2007—and with food demand set to double by midcentury, the taboo against GM foods is crumbling. Read more. … [Read more...] about Biotechnology and Food Production in Africa
White Possum Back from Extinction, but Now Possum Man Has Gone Bush
LATE last year academic Stephen Williams, from James Cook University, reported that a rare species of white possum was possibly extinct and that this was likely the first recorded mammalian extinction due to global warming. Not surprisingly his … [Read more...] about White Possum Back from Extinction, but Now Possum Man Has Gone Bush
Save the Snake, Graze Some Bush?
WHILE some armchair environmentalists believe that burning bush is bad for biodiversity, there is a growing body of evidence suggesting otherwise. Ongoing research at Sydney University by a group lead by Rick Shine suggests Australia’s most … [Read more...] about Save the Snake, Graze Some Bush?
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
