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Killer whales experience menopause – just like humans
Just like humans, killer whales experience menopause – and the rare evolutionary trait improves their offspring's chances of survival, according to experts.
Killer whales are one of only three species able to continue living long after they have stopped reproducing. This allows mothers to spend the rest of their life looking after their offspring.
Continue reading...Perth and Peel Regions Strategic Assessment
WA Pilbara Fish Trawl Interim Managed Fishery
Perth and Peel regions strategic assessment
Sustainable procurement guide
Sustainable Australia Report 2013
Lower Hunter Regional Sustainability Planning and Strategic Assessment
Lower Hunter Regional Sustainability Planning and Strategic Assessment
Climate change: a survivors' guide
Britain is expected to get more extremes of heat and rainfall, so prepare for more severe floods, longer droughts and more powerful storms. No one knows quite what the effect over time will be of a slowing Gulf stream, or the melting of arctic sea ice, but climate scientists confidently expect temperatures to rise up to 4C by 2100. That could mean big shifts in rainfall patterns and a more unpredictable climate. So clear your drains, fix your roof and move to Wales – or at least to somewhere with good water supply. The worst that could happen? Your grandchildren will inherit inexorably rising temperatures that render much of the Earth uninhabitable. Their problem? Yes, but yours, too.
Continue reading...SEng Victoria Newsletter - October 2013
Chair of Heritage Council re-appointed
Strategic Water Purchase Initiative in Victoria
Australia's Native Vegetation Framework
Global warming: why is IPCC report so certain about the influence of humans? | Dana Nuccitelli
The fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report states with 95 percent confidence that humans are the main cause of the current global warming. Many media outlets have reported that this is an increase from the 90 percent certainty in the fourth IPCC report, but actually the change is much more significant than that. In fact, if you look closely, the IPCC says that humans have most likely caused all of the global warming over the past 60 years.
Continue reading...Russian military storm Greenpeace Arctic oil protest ship
Armed Russian military have stormed a Greenpeace ship protesting against oil exploitation in remote Arctic waters.
Continue reading...Tidal energy scheme off northern Scotland gets go-ahead
Six vast underwater turbines are to be lowered into the tidal currents of the Pentland firth in the first phase of one of the largest tidal energy schemes in Europe.
Permission to install the six squat machines, which look like underwater propellers, has been granted by Scottish ministers as a demonstration project to prove they work, with more than 50 of the machines eventually due to be installed on the seabed off Caithness.
Continue reading...The 5 stages of climate denial are on display ahead of the IPCC report | Dana Nuccitelli
The fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report is due out on September 27th, and is expected to reaffirm with growing confidence that humans are driving global warming and climate change. In anticipation of the widespread news coverage of this esteemed report, climate contrarians appear to be in damage control mode, trying to build up skeptical spin in media climate stories. Just in the past week we've seen:
Continue reading...Naomi Klein: 'Big green groups are more damaging than climate deniers'
Canadian author Naomi Klein is so well known for her blade-sharp commentary that it's easy to forget that she is, above all, a first-rate reporter. I got a glimpse into her priorities as I was working on this interview. Klein told me she was worried that some of the things she had said would make it hard for her to land an interview with a president of the one of the Big Green groups (read below and you'll see why). She was more interested in nabbing the story than being the story; her reporting trumped any opinion-making.
Such focus is a hallmark of Klein's career. She doesn't do much of the chattering class's news cycle blathering. She works steadily, carefully, quietly. It can be surprising to remember that Klein's immense global influence rests on a relatively small body of work; she has published three books, one of which is an anthology of magazine pieces.
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