Articles tagged ‘Nature/science’.
There is a sinking city in the desert of southern Namibia, Africa, a ghost town called Kolmanskop. In the 1900s, diamonds were discovered just sitting...
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Treehugger: Before you read this, please finish your breakfast. In 2015, East London will be home to a new type of power plant that uses a unique rene...
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Global awareness is rising fast about the perils of the fossil fuel industry. It’s no longer ‘fringe’ to protest against new coal or...
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The Australian Conservation Foundation acknowledges solid delivery on nature conservation, is concerned with cuts to spending on renewable energy, and...
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Two years after the devastating Japan earthquake and tsunami that left nearly 19,000 people dead or missing and displaced more than 300,000, the sur...
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By Christian Monahan Let’s start off with the not so literal, in the sense of what the supermarkets actually say they’re doing to “help” us th...
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The Age The slaughter embarrassed even the most hard-headed of hunters. More than 800 abandoned duck carcasses that shooters did not bother to pick up...
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By Cath South Resident Fryers Forest Eco Village For those of us on mains water, you might be noticing that it has been dry lately. The weeds and gra...
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Tequendama Falls or Salto del Tequendama is a major tourist attraction about 30km south-west of Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia. The thousa...
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Greenpeace has been blown away by the response to this new TV ad exposing Coca-Cola’s efforts to crush a national 10 cent recycle refund scheme. It...
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Castlemaine microbats are currently in a feeding frenzy as they fatten up on insects to see them through winter. If they have taken up residence in y...
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America’s Radiation Victims We all know that America conducted nuclear bomb testing during the Cold War, somewhere out there, far away from us. What...
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Connecting Country have just released their glovebox-sized ‘Ute Guide to Rabbit Control’. The guide covers how to tell if rabbits are pres...
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Messy Nessy There is a place where beaches are made not of sand, but of the skeletons of millions of fish. Luxury yacht clubs are now frequented only ...
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On Thursday 25 April, at 7.30pm at the Newstead Community Centre, Chris Tzaros from BirdLife Australia will deliver a talk entitled Bird Photography:...
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By Meg Sattler New Victorian Premier Denis Napthine today announced a major restructure of the public service, which Friends of the Earth says will ha...
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By Christian Monahan How does a bulb of garlic from China, grown in polluted soil and air, watered with waste discharge from vets and hospitals and fe...
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After his Rolling Stone article, Global Warming’s Terrifying New Maths, went viral last year, Bill McKibben plunged into a hugely successful tour a...
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It’s April and young Castlemaine kookaburras are out of the nest and taking on an important role in the kookaburra family. If you see one kookaburra...
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Heard of Terminal Zero? Mining giant Adani plans to build a new massive coal port, Terminal Zero, just metres from a beach where sea turtles have come...
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An entire troupe of 300 performing fleas has fallen victim to freezing weather gripping Germany. The acrobatic insects, which were due to appear at an...
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A University of Sydney study shows the majority of health complaints associated with wind farms emerged after anti-wind farm lobbying in regional ar...
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By Christian Monahan It would appear to me that there seems to be a lack in the education field of horticulture. There’s horticulture of course, all...
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MACWind has congratulated residents of Baringhup, Bradford, Nuggetty and district for their participation at last Tuesday evening’s forum about the ...
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This series of fun, information packed, and hands-on workshops will teach you to grow organic fruit at home with confidence, and save you money. Hugh ...
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For seven centuries they have lain beneath the feet of commuters in one of the busiest parts of central London. Thirteen skeletons, lying in two neat ...
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A Sydney University study has found windfarms do not cause illness, other than the alarm spread by opponents. Sickness being attributed to wind turbin...
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Victoria’s new Premier Denis Napthine reaffirmed the government’s opposition to wind farms this morning in an interview with ABC Radio’s Jon Fai...
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The anti-wind farm campaign showed its ugly side at the weekend when Randall Bell, President of the Victorian Landscape Guardians, threatened to “br...
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