Articles tagged ‘Nature/science’.
It’s CI’s birthday! Two. How would you live without us? Let us know! Congratulate us. Conditions of congratulating us: 1. No hate bloggers...
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Dear CI, I am an enthusiast of renewable energy. Regardless of all the ongoing debate about climate change, with the end in sight for fossil fuels, ou...
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By Alison Pouliot The start to 2012 was marred by the tragic news of the deaths of two people following consumption of Death Cup mushrooms (Amanita ph...
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From The Argus, 3 January 1889 CASTLEMAINE, January 2. The drought has broken up at last. It may be may be that those cyclonic changes about which a...
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Words and images by Alison Pouliot The International Year of Forests may be drawing to a close, but we need to consider every year as a year to fight ...
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Gladstone Ports Corporation is undertaking the biggest dredging operation ever attempted inshore from the Great Barrier Reef, and the Australians Gree...
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NSW Central Coast environmentalist Tim Silverwood has returned from a research expedition to the North Pacific Gyre – aka Great Pacific Garbage ...
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Words and pictures by Geoff Park of Natural Newstead A tell-tale scalding call alerted me to the arrival of another of our Spring migrants today – t...
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Words and image courtesy of Geoff Park at Natural Newstead With the recent arrival of large flocks of White-browed Woodswallows Artamus superciliosus ...
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Join us on Tuesdays for our latest feature – a smokin’ mountain biking video. By Pete Walsh This video is filmed in the bush around Castle...
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Mount Alexander Sustainability Group (MASG) members and committee have invited the Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu to attend a public presentation abou...
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Many thanks to Geoff Park of Natural Newstead for the words and exquisite photos. A late afternoon stopover at Lignum Swamp revealed another surprise...
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Scientists have used computer models to answer the mystery of global warming’s missing heat – and believe the answer lies deep beneath the...
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Words and pictures by Geoff Park of Natural Newstead A flock of ~ 50 Black-tailed Native-hens Gallinula ventralis has been frequenting Lignum Swam...
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A worker was reported to have been killed in an accident at the site of the Marcoule nuclear facility in the south of France. The incident, which inju...
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Words and images courtesy of Geoff Park at Natural Newstead Over the past few weeks I’ve started to see a few butterflies, some early emergents from...
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Magpies have begun the nesting season and are protecting their territory from the threat of cyclists and pedestrians. There is one on the north-east c...
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Words and pictures courtesy of Geoff Park at Natural Newstead It is always exciting to find a nest – so spotting a pair of Weebills Smicrornis bre...
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There are less than 1500 southern cassowaries left in the wild, and the iconic bird is listed as one of 1,785 nationally threatened plant and animal s...
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Statement from Mount Alexander Sustainability Group This week the State Government unilaterally banned wind farms from half of this shire, banned them...
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Could it be love? Rats infected with the parasite Toxoplasma seem to lose their fear of cats – or at least cat urine. Now researchers in the US have...
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Oxford University scientists in the UK are producing an entire map of the world’s religious forests – locations that contain some of richest biodi...
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Aidan Dwyer has developed a photovoltaic array based on tree structures as represented by the Fibonacci Sequence. This array collects more energy in a...
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Warfare, triggered by political conflict between the fifth century BC and the first century AD, likely shaped the development of the first settlement ...
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The Queensland State Government has claim that summer floods were to blame for the rising death toll of marine life in Gladstone harbour. Since April,...
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Scientists have discovered that modern polar bears are descended from now extinct brown bears that roamed the region we know today as Britain and Irel...
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New book examines how Darwinian heritage influences what we eat to what we wear What do fast-food restaurants have in common? Why are women more lik...
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Being at the very top of a social hierarchy may be more costly than previously thought, according to a new study of wild baboons led by a Princeton Un...
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The Possible Futures Film Contest, a joint project of FOUR YEARS. GO. and The Pachamama Alliance, received 317 films from film makers in 44 countries ...
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US scientists recently reported that they have taken a big step in determining what the first birds looked like more than 100 million years ago, when ...
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Tasmanian Devils are a step closer to the road to recovery as their species continues to come under attack from Devil Facial Tumor Disease (DFTD). A r...
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The Orang-utan is expected to be extinct in the wild in 10 years. Even though they can play a role in slowing or preventing this from happening, the G...
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A La Trobe University study has found that smoke from Victoria’s disastrous bushfires of 2009 circled the globe for more than three months at height...
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by Geoff Park of Natural Newstead Flame Robins Petroica phoenicea are a feature of winter in the Newstead district. Small flocks start arriving in ...
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