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
ScienceDaily: Severe Weather News First forecast calls for mild Amazon fire season in 2012 North Atlantic storm patterns throw light on England’s 1987 gale Optimal planning of solar power plants First forecast calls for mild Amazon fire season in 2012 Posted: 10 May 2012 07:50 PM PDT Forests in the Amazon Basin are expected to Continue Reading →
ScienceDaily: Oceanography News Push from Mississippi kept Deepwater Horizon oil slick off shore Posted: 10 May 2012 07:50 PM PDT Geoscientists offer an explanation for why the Deepwater Horizon oil spill didn’t have the environmental impact that many had feared. Using publicly available datasets, their study reveals that the force of the Mississippi River emptying Continue Reading →
UN warns Asia’s giant cities over carbon emissions Michael Bachelard May 11, 2012 Read later Still growing … a ceremony at the site of a new hotel in Beijing. Photo: AFP JAKARTA: The United Nations has delivered a stark warning that Asian mega-cities can no longer develop first and rein in carbon emissions later. A Continue Reading →
Big donors ditch rightwing Heartland Institute over Unabomber billboard Extremist US thinktank compared those who believe in man-made climate change to serial killer Ted Kaczynski Share188 Email Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 9 May 2012 18.55 BST Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. The Heartland Institute used his image in its roadside billboard. Photograph: Sipa Continue Reading →
ScienceDaily: Earth Science News NASA spacecraft detects changes in Martian sand dunes Technology measures Martian sand movement: Dune migration rates appear to be similar to those on Earth Secrets of the first practical artificial leaf Encyclopedia of Life reaches historic one million species pages milestone Finding the roots and early branches of the tree of Continue Reading →