Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David - knight in the old brown hat
In 1920, Tannatt William Edgeworth David was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. This gave b...
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Seven pieces of scientific information on the Vickery coal mine expansion
What does the science have to say about Vickery?
The Vickery coal mine extension in New South Wales has received approval from the Environment Minister, Sussan Ley. ...
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Satellite mapping is preparing Australian cities for a warming earth
A new start-up is bringing out-of-this-world data down to Earth, arming urban planners with envir...
Imagine you’re an urban planner, worried about your city’s resilience in the face of the growing threat of climate ch...
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How can we achieve food security in the Asia-Pacific region?
Is food security a problem we need to tackle as a collective?
Australia, the land girt by sea, may seem like an isolated country, but is part of a wider ecosystem in the Asian-Pac...
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Black Summer fires spawned phytoplankton bloom bigger than Australia
Smoke from the 2019/20 fires had an unexpected effect in the Southern Ocean.
Australia’s 2019/20 bushfires were a crisis on an epic scale. Not only did they burn through an estimated 18 million ...
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Native logging to end in Western Australia
The state will phase out native forest logging by 2024 – so is this decision backed by science?
Last week, the West Australian government committed to ending native forest logging in the state’s southwest by 2024,...
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What stops small farms from cashing in on carbon?
Small-scale carbon farming leaves a lot to be desired.
“We can automate nearly everything, can't we? We can fly to the moon, but we can't make one of these methods simple e...
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The new solution to climate change: Potty-training cows
The MooLoo holds great pootential for reducing carbon emissions
Cows contribute massively to global emissions because of the greenhouse gases they produce. We’re not talking hot air...
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Meet the meat: what are the planet's prime carbon cuts?
The coming UN Climate Change Summit will again question the climate credentials of the meat and l...
The longed-for first bite of a delicious, expensive rib-eye is en route to your mouth when your teenager says: “You k...
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Searching for the dawn of animal life
The new national park preserving Earth’s earliest life.
Drone footage courtesy of Associate Prof Diego C. García-Bellido (South Australian Museum/University of Adelaide). ...
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Ice age relics discovered beneath the North Sea
Scan reveals huge seafloor channels carved by ancient ice sheets.
Scientists have created spectacular maps of drowned worlds beneath the North Sea, revealing enormous channels forged ...
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Australia’s coal must stay in the ground to hit Paris targets
Most of the world’s fossil fuels deemed “unextractable” if we’re to avoid catastrophe.
To have half a chance of meeting the Paris Agreement targets, 90% of the world’s coal and 60% of its oil and gas must...