Electoral roll still short by 1.3m as deadline looms Posted 4 hours 14 minutes ago The Australian Electoral Commission estimates that 1.3 million eligible Australians are missing from the electoral roll, on the day enrolment closes for the federal election. Joe O’Brien Source: ABC News | Duration: 5min 11sec
Destruction of coastal habitats can produce a billion tons of greenhouse gas a year Original post by Duke University Destruction of coastal habitats may release as much as 1 billion tons of carbon emissions into the atmosphere each year, 10 times higher than previously reported, according to a new Duke led study. Published online this Continue Reading →
Click ABC News to watch video. Print Email Facebook Twitter More Antony Green: Election a state-by-state battle Updated 49 minutes ago ABC election analyst Antony Green explains why the election is a state-by-state battle, and why Labor faces trouble in the southern states. Antony Green Source: ABC News | Duration: 1min 34sec
Letters: Why should we grow South Australia? From: The Advertiser August 09, 2013 10:30PM inShare0 Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print Email Share Add to Digg Add to del.icio.us Add to Facebook Add to Kwoff Add to Myspace Add to Newsvine What are these? READERS have written about Nick Xenophon’s push for population growth Continue Reading →
CDC: Heat wave the deadliest extreme weather event Play CBS News Video Heat waves are the deadliest of extreme weather events, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this week. A case study published in the August 9 edition of the agency’s journal, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, looked at heat illness in New Continue Reading →
Hysteresis between coral reef calcification and the seawater aragonite saturation state Published 9 August 2013 Science Leave a Comment Tags: biological response, calcification, chemistry, corals, field, South Pacific Some predictions of how ocean acidification (OA) will effect coral reefs assume a linear functional relationship between the ambient seawater aragonite saturation state (Ωa) and net ecosystem calcification (NEC). Continue Reading →