On 27th April Queensland Premier Peter Beattie announced $2.3 billion worth of water projects for Queensland. The Premier said, "The Infrastructure Plan includes funding for a new dam and two new weirs. We will need more urban and industrial water … [Read more...] about Government Commits $2.3 Billion for Unknown Quantity of Water
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Government Payments for Environmental Services
The Hon. Warren Truss MP (until recently Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestery) gave a speech to the Victorian Rural Press Club in March in which he talked about the recently released 'Agriculture and Food Industry Stocktake' and some of … [Read more...] about Government Payments for Environmental Services
Wolves in Yellowstone National Park
This will be my third post in a row with a US theme or author. But I just have to share the photos by Joel Sartore at this site http://www.joelsartore.com/gallery/index.asp . The 'fragile nature' gallery has my favourites but it takes a while to … [Read more...] about Wolves in Yellowstone National Park
Correction from David Douglass to Ken Miles
I received the following email yesterday from David Douglass, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, New York: Dear Dr Marohasy The following quote from your web page has come to my attention: "A good example of skeptics … [Read more...] about Correction from David Douglass to Ken Miles
God Bless America
It is the 4th July, Independence Day in the USA, and NASA has successfully smashed something the size of a washing machine into a gigantic comet. The aim of the cosmic collision, and I gather it was successful, was to find out what is inside comets. … [Read more...] about God Bless America
Teach Me to Fish
Africa is in the news. I lived in Madagascar and then Kenya from 1985 through to 1992. Here I am in in the far south-west of Madagascar in about 1986, Jen stopping for lunch. This was one way of getting about in Madagascar in the mid 1980s, by … [Read more...] about Teach Me to Fish
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
