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Australian panel to recommend changing constitution to recognize Aborigines - CNN.com

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Jethro Mullen, CNN - Jan. 18 (News Report) - "The lack of acknowledgment of a people's existence in a country's Constitution has a major impact on their sense of identity, value within the community and perpetuates discrimination and prejudice.."

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Planet Likely to Become Increasingly Hostile to Agriculture

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Scientific American - By Douglas Fischer - Dec. 07 (News Report) - YTo get a glimpse of the future, look to East Africa today. The Horn of Africa is in the midst of its worst drought in 60 years: Crop failures have left up to 10 million at risk of famine; social order has broken down in Somalia, with thousands of refugees streaming into Kenya; British Aid alone is feeding 2.4 million people across the region. That's a taste of what's to come, say scientists mapping the impact of a warming planet on agriculture and civilization.

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The World from Berlin: 'Dear God, Let's Get it Over With'

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:04:00 -0700

Der Spiegel - Sep. 22 - DPA A pope protester awaits the pontiff's arrival on Thursday. The pope's visit to Germany this week promises to be difficult. Abuse scandals among priests worldwide have dimmed enthusiasm for the leader of the Catholic Church, even in his homeland, and

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Escaped Pet Birds Are Teaching Wild Birds to Speak English

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Treehugger - By Stephen Messenger - Sep. 15 (News) - Across parts of Australia, reports have been pouring in of strange voices chattering high in the treetops -- mysterious, non-sensical conversations in English. But while the phenomena is certainly quite odd, its explanation isn't paranormal.

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Oceans left out of climate debate

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - Aug. 08 (News Report) - Oceans have been left out of climate change debate in Australia, the founder of Earthwatch says. Brian Rosborough said the role of oceans and coasts should be given more attention. "Coastal vegetation and oceans which account for 55 per cent of all the c

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Who’s your expert? How peer-reviewed research differs from rhetoric by climate science deniers

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - Jul. 03 (Opinion) - A jury of one’s peers should assess scientific claims. Here are two, related pieces from The Conversation, “Who’s your expert? The difference between peer review and rhetoric” and “Climate change denial and the abuse of peer review.” First, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Director of the Global Change Institute, submits some climate “sceptics” to peer-review and finds them [...]

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Warning: extreme weather ahead

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By John Vidal - Jun. 14 (News Report) - Tornados, wildfires, droughts and floods were once seen as freak conditions. But the environmental disasters now striking the world are shocking signs of 'global weirding' Drought zones have been declared across much of England and Wales, yet Scotland has just registered its wettest-ever May. The warmest British spring in 100 years followed one of the coldest UK winters in 300 years. June in London has been colder than March. February was warm enough to strip on Snowdon, but last Saturday it snowed there. Welcome to the climate rollercoaster, or what is being coined the "new normal" of weather. What was, until quite recently, predictable, temperate, mild and equable British weather, guaranteed to be warmish and wettish, ensuring green lawns in August, now sees the seasons reversed and temperature and rainfall records broken almost every year. When Kent receives as much rain (4mm) in May as Timbuktu, Manchester has more sunshine than Marbella, and soils in southern England are drier than ...

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Apocalypse not now: Rapture fails to happen

Sat, 21 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By David Batty - May. 21 (News) - Christian doomsday prophet Harold Camping looks likely to be less than rapturous after his prediction that the world would end on Saturday failed to materialise. The 89-year-old Californian preacher had prophesied that the Rapture would begin at 6pm in each of the world's time zones, with those "saved" by Jesus ascending to heaven and the non-believers being wiped out by an earthquake rolling from city to city across the planet. But as the deadline for the Apocalpyse passed in the Pacific islands, New Zealand and Australia, it became apparent that Camping's prediction of the end of the world was to end not with a bang but with a whimper. Only on Twitter did the supposed armageddon sweep the world, with users expressing their mock disappointment at the lack of dead people rising from their graves. New Zealander Daniel Boerman tweeted : "I'm from New Zealand, it is 6:06PM, the world has NOT ...

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‘Let’s talk about sex’—and what American teenagers don’t know about it [VIDEO]

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Grist - Apr. 09 - by Lisa Hymas. “Every day in America, 10,000 teenagers catch an STD, 2,400 young girls become pregnant, and 55 young people are infected with HIV.” Those sobering stats are from a documentary airing on TLC tonight, April 9, at 10 p.m. / 9 central. Let’s Talk About Sex is directed by James Houston, a fashion photographer who came to the U.S. from Australia and Europe and was aghast at our screwed-up sexual culture. Sex is everywhere, used to sell everything, but we don’t talk about it openly and honestly with our teenagers. “Young people in America don’t know the risks associated with sex, and because of that, American teen pregnancy and STD rates are among the highest in the industrialized world,” says Houston. Says one teenager in the film, “People are in denial—teachers, parents. They’re like, ‘No, no, teenagers aren’t having sex. They can’t, or the shouldn’t.’ But we do and we are.” I ...

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Forget the billions, return Jabiluka site to Kakadu, say traditional owners

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - By Lindsay Murdoch Jabiru - Apr. 06 (News Report) - Warned about the wrath of Djang... Yvonne Margarula, one of the traditional owners from the Mirarr people, in front of an image of her father. Photo: Glenn Campbell ABORIGINAL traditional owners have declared they want the multibillion-dollar Jabiluka ur

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Japan tsunami cost Australia $2b: Swan

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 07:06:00 -0700

Australian Broadcasting - Apr. 03 - The Federal Treasurer, Wayne Swan, says the Japanese earthquake is likely to cut about $2 billion from Australia's export earnings. "Preliminary Treasury estimates show that the earthquake and tsunami will cut demand for our bulk commodity exports in the

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Mass 'scareware' attack hits 1.5M websites, still spreading -

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

USA Today - By Michael Winter - Apr. 02 (Special Report) - A massive attack that's trying to scare computer users into visiting a bogus antivirus site has infected more than 1.5 million websites and continues to spread, according to an Internet security firm. Several pages on Apple's iTunes store have been infected. The so-called LizaMoon "SQL injection attack" began Tuesday and is being tracked by Websense. Such attacks redirect users by exploiting programming errors and poorly written code and scripts. eWeek says the attack is "out of control ... with no end in sight." Nearly half the compromised sites are in the United States. Other affected countries include United Kingdom, Kuwait, India, Australia, Turkey, Brazil, Israel, Mexico, Taiwan and Chile.

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Why we're still split over the atom

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - By Deborah Smith - Mar. 20 (Opinion) - The Fukushima nuclear crisis will have a lasting impact in Australia. Comfortably reliant on enormous coal reserves - and with Homer Simpson helping shape attitudes to nuclear power - Australia is most unlikely to adopt this energy source to tackle climate change in the near future. Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl disaster, with community concerns focused on the hazards of a warming world, there had been signs of a public reconsideration of nuclear as a low-carbon option. But any fledgling support is now likely to evaporate, researchers say. Advertisement: Story continues below Australians have long tended to have polarised views on nuclear energy. And those in each camp still see things very differently after events of the past week in Japan.

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Relief as Queensland studies cyclone damage

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Kristen Gelineau - Feb. 03 (News Report) - One of the most powerful storms ever recorded in Australia pulled houses apart and snapped power poles as it ripped across flood-sodden Queensland state Thursday but didn't kill anyone. Officials had issued days of increasingly dire warnings

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Australia Floods Inundate Brisbane, 43 Missing

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - Jan. 12 (News Report) - Massive floods shut down the center of Australia's third-largest city, sent thousands fleeing from their homes and sparked panic buying of food on Wednesday as rescuers searched for 43 people missing in floodwaters.

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Australia: Queensland floods spur more evacuations

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Jan. 01 (News) - Thousands more people are preparing to evacuate their homes as one of Australia's worst floods continues to inundate the state of Queensland.

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Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

theaustralian.com.au - By Julian Assange - Dec. 07 (Editorial) - WikiLeaks coined a new type of journalism: scientific journalism. We work with other media outlets to bring people the news, but also to prove it is true. Scientific journalism allows you to read a news story, then to click online to see the original document it is based on. That way you can judge for yourself: Is the story true? Did the journalist report it accurately? Democratic societies need a strong media and WikiLeaks is part of that media. The media helps keep government honest. WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and Afghan wars, and broken stories about corporate corruption.

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Australia's Julia Gillard forms new government on shaky ground

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Sep. 07 (News) - Australia?s Julia Gillard barely squeaked into power. But her slim majority means that passing any legislation will be ...

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Deepwater Horizon oil plume more than twice all natural seeps in the northern Gulf of Mexico

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The New Orleans Times-Picayune - By Mark Schleifstein - Aug. 19 (News Report) - A Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute research team found an extensive plume of droplets of oil about four-fifths of a mile below the surface and stretching 22 miles southwest of the Deepwater Horizon well site deep below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico during a 10-day research cruise at the end of June.

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The sexist media coverage of Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who is up for re-election.

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Chloe Angyal - Aug. 19 (Opinion) - But even with a truncated season for punditry, the Australian media have hit all the same sexist notes about Gillard that the American media played in their coverage of women in politics like Hillary Clinton, Elena Kagan, and Sarah Palin. Since she has

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Young Australians eye future World Cup

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

United Press International - Jun. 17 (Opinion) -

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Peak Metals - What happens when we run out?

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

sbs.com.au - By Bill Code - Jun. 15 (News) - Put simply, the extraction of virgin ores from the earth's crust will peak - indeed, it already has for many. Although the theory is not without its detractors, there is no doubt that the metals that drive our society are finite resources - and extracting them from the earth has to end.

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Australia to mount legal bid against Japan whaling

Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - May. 28 (News Report) - Australia says it will mount a legal bid at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, against Japan's whaling programme.

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Chilling prospects in new cold war | The Australian

Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

theaustralian.com.au - By Rowan Callick - May. 26 (Opinion) - IMAGINE the anger that would be reverberating around the world if the US had, unprovoked in any way, sunk a Cuban ship, killing dozens of sailors - or if Israel had similarly blown up a Syrian vessel, drowning half its crew. The deaths of 46 South Koreans, killed when a torpedo from a North Korean submarine sliced in half their 1200-tonne corvette, the Cheonan, on March 26 have so far been treated overseas as chiefly a parochial concern.

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US vows punishment for North Korea over ship sinking

Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - May. 21 (Investigative Report) - The US state department says there "will definitely be consequences" for North Korea following the sinking of a South Korean warship in March. The North is facing international condemnation after investigators blamed it for the sinking of the ship, in which 46 sailors died. Pyongyang has rejected the claim as a "fabrication" and threatened war if sanctions were imposed. China urged restraint and did not criticise the North.

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