Self-drive Car Platooning real world tests
Written by: Mike Bantick | Published in: ClimateThey are called Safe Road Trains for the Environment (SARTRE) and like something out of the film Minority Report they promise an improved way of...
View ArticleCSIRO says climate change knowledge essential
Written by: David Swan | Published in: ClimateUnderstanding how climate change could impact on the deterioration of the basic building block of much of Australia's infrastructure - concrete - is...
View ArticleJapanese supercomputer predicts 2012's climate patterns
Written by: David Heath | Published in: ClimateClimate variations in the Indian and Pacific Oceans will drive the planet's climate in 2012.
View ArticleIts official - climate change is human-caused
Written by: David Heath | Published in: ClimateHaving exhausted all other possible causes, Melbourne University researchers conclude that the dramatic increase in local temperatures over the past 60...
View ArticleMagnitude 5.3 earthquake rocks Melbourne (and the social media)
Written by: David Heath | Published in: ClimateFelt as minor shaking with a low rumble throughout Melbourne, a mid-sized earthquake, reported to be the largest ever recorded in Victoria, gave the...
View ArticleFacebook and twitter first to report: Earthquake shakes Melbourne again
Written by: Dexter Eugenio | Published in: ClimateIn what is now a seemingly regular occurrence for Melbournians, a 4.5 magnitude earthquake has rocked south east Victoria for a second time since a 5.4...
View ArticleHistorical surface temperature review: we're definitely getting hotter
Written by: David Heath | Published in: ClimateEven the climate change sceptics are coming on-board. A recent study by the Berkeley Earth group confirms both a rising temperature and a closely related...
View ArticleMt Everest as you've never seen it before
Written by: David Heath | Published in: ClimateImagine stitching together 477 images to create a 3.8 gigapixel picture of Mt Everest.
View ArticleNICTA, SIRCA, researchers come together on big data project
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: ClimateAustralia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, NICTA, is leading what it says is a ground-breaking,...
View ArticleRising CO2 level making Earth's deserts bloom: CSIRO study
Featured | Written by: Stan Beer | Published in: ClimateA new study based on satellite observations, just released globally by Australia's science agency the CSIRO, is likely to cause a stir among...
View ArticleBureau of Meteorology to upgrade its supercomputer
Featured | Written by: David Swan | Published in: ClimateAustralia's government-run weather experts the Bureau of Meterology will purchase a new supercomputer and datacentre following a datalink...
View ArticleIcelandic volcano - will air travel be affected again?
Written by: David Heath | Published in: ClimateSignificant activity at Bardarbunga volcano suggests a sub-glacial eruption is pending. This isn't good news for air travellers.
View ArticleIcelandic volcano - an update
Written by: David Heath | Published in: ClimateThe volcano Bardarbunga briefly erupted yesterday, temporarily raising the aviation warning state to Red.
View ArticleWWF says tigers near extinction
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: ClimateAccording to a report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF, or panda.org), only 3,200 tigers are left in the world. The WWF states they are near...
View ArticleLessening fog may hurt California redwoods
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: ClimateFog has been decreasing during the summer months along the Pacific coast of the United States. According to new U.S. research, this climate change over...
View ArticleCSIRO book highlights Australian agriculture
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: ClimateA new book by 36 science experts from Australia, highlights the ways that Australian agricultural, fisheries, and forestry industries can cope and,...
View ArticleLoggerhead turtles may get endangered tag
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: ClimateThe NOAA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have teamed up to propose the loggerhead turtle be placed on the endangered-species listing while in...
View ArticleIs it hot in here? The 'State of the Climate' in Australia
Written by: David Heath | Published in: ClimateToday the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO published a snapshot of the state of climate change in Australia.
View ArticleIt's a-blowin' in the wind over Southern Ocean
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: ClimateAustralian and U.S. scientists have concluded that the winds over the Southern Ocean hold the key to how its surface waters help to transfer heat and...
View ArticleCSIRO, Bayer team on sustainable cereal crops
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: ClimateA two-year research program in Australia will assess the sustainability of more efficient cereal crops. Bayer CropScience and CSIRO are teaming up to...
View ArticleWhy is southwest Western Australia so dry?
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: ClimateAustralian and Chinese scientists have come up with an answer to the question 'Why has southwest Western Australia experienced dramatic declines in...
View ArticleGigantic current found in Southern Ocean
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: ClimateA deep ocean current has been discovered near the Kerguelen plateau in the southern Indian Ocean. The Japanese and Australian discoverers say it is...
View ArticleU.S., Australia has giant carbon footprints
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: ClimateAccording to research performed by Australian and Singapore researchers, the countries of Australia and the United States are among the top ten worst...
View ArticleSimon McKeon becomes CSIRO head
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: ClimateAustralia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has appointed Simon McKeon as its new chairperson.
View ArticleAustralia holds Climate Adaptation Futures 2010 Conference
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: ClimateBeginning on Tuesday 29, 2010, Australia will hold its first climate change adaptation conference. It will be held on the Gold Coast for three days.
View ArticleHow high are the forests? Ask NASA
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: ClimateThe U.S. space agency NASA has produced the world's first map of the height of all Earth's forests. The map will help scientists learn more about the...
View ArticleTasmania bags bags
Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: ClimateAlthough Mr McGuire recommended 'plastics' to Benjamin in 'The Graduate', ye olde plastic bags are being bagged, done, dusted and dismissed from...
View ArticleMedia watchdog slams Alan Jones, 2GB over ‘inaccurate’ climate change comments
Featured | Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: ClimateSydney radio shock jock Alan Jones has been rapped over the knuckles by the media watchdog ACMA for factually unsupported comments he made two...
View ArticleArtificial intelligence, Big Data used for seafloor geology mapping
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: ClimateNational ICT Australia (NICTA) and the University of Sydney have collaborated to create the first digital map of seafloor sediments using artificial...
View ArticleWeather forecasting just got better- much better
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: ClimateMore accurate and more frequent weather forecasts will now be delivered by the Bureau of Meteorology with the bureau now given access to the Himawari-8...
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