Managing director of Ebono Institute and major sponsor of The Generator, Geoff Ebbs, is running against Kevin Rudd in the seat of Griffith at the next Federal election. By the expression on their faces in this candid shot it looks like a pretty dull campaign. Read on
1 Million to Ban the Lion Trade Inbox x Jamie Choi – Avaaz.org avaaz@avaaz.org 8:51 AM (1 hour ago) to me Dear friends, South African lions are being slaughtered for their bones, just to make bogus sex potions for men. But if we show President Zuma that this hurts South Africa’s image as a tourist Continue Reading →
Stellar Flare Blasts Exoplanet Inbox x NASA Science News noreply@nasascience.org 2:07 AM (7 hours ago) to NASA NASA Science News for June 28, 2012 Working in tandem, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Swift satellite have caught a distant star blasting one of its own planets with a powerful stellar flare. The eruption stripped thousands of Continue Reading →
What makes sea-level rise? Filed under: Climate Science — stefan @ 1 June 2012 Last week the science community was shocked by the claim that 42% of the sea-level rise of the past decades is due to groundwater pumping for irrigation purposes. What could this mean for the future – and is it true? The Continue Reading →
Tropical cyclones to cause greater damage, researchers predict Posted: 01 Feb 2012 07:52 AM PST Tropical cyclones will cause $109 billion in damages by 2100, according to researchers in a new paper. That figure represents an increased vulnerability from population and especially economic growth, as well as the effects of climate change. Greater vulnerability to Continue Reading →
Green Light: Arctic sea ice, Lonesome George and Rio+20 Inbox x The Guardian info@mail.guardian.co.uk 7:53 PM (5 minutes ago) to me Images are not displayed. Display images below – Always display images from info@mail.guardian.co.uk Having trouble viewing this email? Green news roundup: Arctic sea ice, Lonesome George and Rio+20 The week’s top environment news stories and Continue Reading →
Warm ocean currents cause majority of ice loss from Antarctica Posted: 25 Apr 2012 11:03 AM PDT Warm ocean currents are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Antarctica, new research shows. New techniques have been used to differentiate, for the first time, between the two known causes of melting ice shelves – warm Continue Reading →