Articles tagged ‘Nature/science’.
By Geoff Park, of Natural Newstead I’m afraid the feast of raptors shows no sign of abating. The photographs were provided courtesy of a very friend...
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Words and image by Geoff Park, of Natural Newstead At this time of year you can hear the distinctive trill of Rainbow Bee-eaters overhead in the bus...
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A partnership between three Landcare groups will see the clean-up of Barkers Creek, from its headwaters in Harcourt North to Castlemaine. Hosted by ...
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The quality of captive breeding enclosures and time spent in them may be crucial to the success of marsupials once released back to the wild, new rese...
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It’s big, it’s old and it lives under the sea and now an international research collaboration with The University of Western AustraliaR...
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Words and images courtesy of Geoff Park at Natural Newstead I have been encouraged … or at least not discouraged to continue the theme of raptors in...
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“The biodiversity crisis – i.e. the rapid loss of species and the rapid degradation of ecosystems – is probably a greater threat than global...
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Minister Joe Ludwig, representing the Attorney General in the Senate, confirmed in Question Time on Tuesday that the Australian Federal Police monitor...
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That’s right. You’re in a large company. Over the past few weeks our readership has been rising rapidly, and the last couple of days we...
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What’s the sexiest event in green building and design? Fourteen of Victoria’s leading sustainable architects and building designers will be availa...
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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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