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: Oceanography News Venice hasn’t stopped sinking after all Warming Antarctic brings changes to penguin breeding cycles Chemical pollution in Europe’s seas: The monitoring must catch up with the science, experts say Geological ‘pulse’ causes cycle of extinctions every 60 million years, scientists report Venice hasn’t stopped sinking after all Posted: 21 Mar 2012 02:22 Continue Reading →
My Alerts ADVERTISEMENT Alert Name: CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS March 22, 2012 Compiled: 1:08 AM Carbon Plan Could Pay Off for Airlines By JAMES KANTER (NYT) A European emissions offset plan awards surplus carbon permits to some carriers, based on their historic emissions, and the airlines might be able to sell those permits at a profit. Continue Reading →
Cars banned on proposed bridge project over Parramatta River Matthew Moore March 22, 2012 Read later New plans … the Homebush Bay Bridge Draft Environmental Assessment for public exhibition. DEVELOPERS plan to build a 300-metre-long bridge across one of the most polluted waterways in Australia to provide access to public transport and parks in one Continue Reading →
Mercury findings raise new questions Thursday, 22 March 2012 Stuart GaryABC Mercury is unlike any other planet in the solar system according to new data from NASA’s Messenger spacecraft(Source: NASA/Johns Hopkins/Carnegie Institution) Related Stories Messenger enters Mercury orbit, Science Online, 21 Mar 2011 Mercury delivers the unexpected, Science Online, 12 May 2008 Mercury’s core secrets Continue Reading →
Albanese, 10 others breach rule on grants Markus Mannheim March 22, 2012 Read later Anthony Albanese … approved $31 million in grants. Photo: Luis Enrique Ascui THE Infrastructure Minister, Anthony Albanese, approved more than $31 million in grants for his own electorate or against his department’s advice, in breach of government policy. The federal Auditor-General, Continue Reading →
ScienceDaily: Earth Science News Japan shares space station SMILES via atmospheric data distribution Posted: 20 Mar 2012 01:38 PM PDT Did you panic when you heard in recent news that two massive solar flares from the Sun were hitting Earth’s atmosphere? The coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, typically produced by solar flares might pose a Continue Reading →