I asked Libby Eyre for some information on modern large mammal extinctions and this was her list in reply: Steller's sea cow, sea mink and Carribbean monk seals, the Thylacine, Toolache wallaby and lesser bilby, the Falkland Island fox, aurochs … [Read more...] about Large Mammal Extinctions: Libby Eyre
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Al Gore’s New Movie In Australia In September
I've just been sent some publicity for Al Gore's new movie 'An Inconvenient Truth'. It's an apocalyptic tale about climate change opening in Australia from 14th September with screening times to soon be available at the films new Australian website: … [Read more...] about Al Gore’s New Movie In Australia In September
Let Me Drink Recycled Water
Was it former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Australian Democrat Senator Andrew Bartlett or Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull? Who convinced Queensland’s Premier Beattie to change his mind on recycling sewage as a … [Read more...] about Let Me Drink Recycled Water
An ‘Advertisement’ for ‘Dipetane’
I've been sent links to www.dipetane.net.. According to the website you add dipetane to your petrol or diesel and you get a 10-17percent efficiency increase and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. According to Wikipedia* it's a fuel enhancer that … [Read more...] about An ‘Advertisement’ for ‘Dipetane’
Guilty Until Proven Innocent Says Auditor-General
"Last week the Auditor-General stated that farmers have escaped land clearing prosecutions because the State Government had ‘problems with meeting the evidence requirements’ under NSW native vegetation laws,” said a spokesperson for the NSW Regional … [Read more...] about Guilty Until Proven Innocent Says Auditor-General
How to Save the Baiji?
The Yangtze River Dolphin, also known as the baiji, is perhaps the most endangered of the world’s large mammals. The last confirmed sighting was of a single adult in September 2004. The journal Conservation Biology recently published three short … [Read more...] about How to Save the Baiji?
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
