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Do we care enough about the wildfowlers and reedcutters of the east coast to save them?
Reed cutters on the east coast are an endangered species, partly due to coastal erosion. Photograph: Andrew Parsons/PA
Chunk of ice the size of four football pitches falls from Hualcan glacier into Andean lake, resulting in at least one death
A glacier in the Peruvian Andes. Photograph: James Brunker/Alamy
A massive ice block broke from a glacier and crashed into a lake in the Peruvian Andes, unleashing a 23-metre tsunami and sending muddy torrents through nearby towns, killing at least one person.
The chunk of ice, estimated at the size of four football pitches, detached from the Hualcan glacier near Carhuaz, about 200 miles north of the capital, Lima, on Sunday. It plunged into a lagoon known as lake 513, triggering a tsunami that breached 23 metre (75ft) high levees and damaged Carhuaz and other villages, according to authorities.
Australia’s biggest rooftop solar panel at UQ By Siobhan Barry Updated 2 hours 41 minutes ago One-and-a-half football fields worth of solar grids will be installed on the roofs of three buildings. Map: St Lucia 4067 The University of Queensland’s Saint Lucia campus in Brisbane will be home to the country’s largest rooftop solar panel. Continue Reading →
Water companies, not farmers, to blame for river pollution Ecologist 15th April, 2010 Household sewage waste rather than farm slurry should be the target of tough pollution measures to reduce phosphorus levels in English rivers, says study Phosphorus from human and household waste, rather than fertiliser run-off from farming, is the main source of Continue Reading →
Climate science moves on while politics stalled Hobart, Thursday 15 April 2010 New reports from the global Argo project, showing how fast the oceansaround Australia are warming, are just the latest new science backing upthe need for urgent and serious action on the climate crisis. “We are relentlessly heating our oceans and atmosphere while politicshas Continue Reading →
Reed says WA lithium is world class
Shares in Reed Resources Ltd rose after it said it had defined a world-class lithium resource at its Mt Marion project near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.
Reed Resources shares were up six cents, or 8.51 per cent, at 76.5 cents at 1350 AEST, while shares in joint venture partner Mineral Resources Ltd had added 18 cents, or 2.31 per cent, to $7.96.
Reed Resources said in a statement on Wednesday that it had increased the resource at the project by 220 per cent to 128,000 tonnes of lithium oxide.