The burgeoning business of death Date January 28, 2014 Larissa Ham Reporter View more articles from Larissa Ham Email Larissa Baby boomers are fuelling a massive rise in death services. Tweet submit to reddit Email article Print Reprints & permissions Acacia Remembrance Sanctuary, Australia’s first ‘natural’ burial park. Want to go out with a bang? Continue Reading →
Home Inside the engines powering life at sea yesterday For more than two centuries we’ve relied on engines to power our exploration, travel and trade on the seas. With each new generation of engine technologies, we’ve travelled faster and safer with less impact on the environment. It’s been a long, exciting journey since the early Continue Reading →
Search BRW Australia’s climate plan: are you serious? Courtesy of David Spratt Published 24 January 2014 11:05, Updated 24 January 2014 11:32 Penny van Oosterzee Tweet +font -font print A young woman cooling off in the Nepean River, south-west of Sydney; heat waves are expected to become more common with climate change. Photo: Jonathan Ng Continue Reading →
Huge fire shakes neighbours from beds 11:40am January 26, 2014 January 26, 2014: A huge fire burned for more than 12 hours after a natural gas pipeline exploded near Winnipeg, Canada Share 0 Email Residents of a small Canadian town have woken to an enormous fireball spewing flames hundreds of metres into the air after Continue Reading →
Biodiversity, Climate Change Why Are Arctic Bird Populations Declining? Yale Environment 360 | January 24, 2014 12:23 pm | Comments Tweet By Ed Struzik On Coats Island, in northern Hudson Bay, thick-billed murres—members of the auk family—have been under assault on several fronts in recent years. Polar bears, faced with a sharp decline in the Continue Reading →
A news stream provided by the Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA-ICC) Home About « BBC – Things to do: Sour seas Tiny plankton – major threat to climate Published 24 January 2014 Media coverage Leave a Comment An unprecedented rise in tiny phytoplankton could threaten the spread of larger phytoplankton species, vital for curbing global warming. Shown Continue Reading →