Earth Sciences

Australia Should Consider Thorium Nuclear Power

generate non-fossil baseload power. And so, by all means, we should talk about thorium, but let’s not ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 2 2015 - 9:00am

Halocarbons: Japan Earthquake And Tsunami Sped Ozone Loss, Global Warming

years. They found that emissions of all six halocarbons were higher from March 2011 to February 2012, ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2015 - 11:38am

Petrichor: How The Term For The Smell Of Rain Came To Be

recognised by all the earlier text books of mineralogy. Was it something in the soil that gave rise to the ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 31 2015 - 8:00am

Why There Is A 200-year Lag Between Climate Events In Greenland And Antarctica

Desert Research Institute in Nevada. "We considered sites all over Antarctica before selecting the ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 29 2015 - 2:54pm

How To Dissect A T. Rex (Bring Chainsaws, Feathers And Latex)

life-like dinosaur of all time. Inside rex We go from head-to-tail on the dinosaur, cutting it up, talking ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 7 2015 - 3:00am

How To Keep Massive Herbivores In Check- Hypercarnivores

too. "We're all just trying to understand the Pleistocene and how rich that ecosystem ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2015 - 7:22am

Acid Fog On Mars

Spectrometer (APXS), is the same, but the rocks looked different to all of the other instruments. Across ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 8 2015 - 9:09am

Do You Need To Wash Fruit And Vegetables?

necessarily all. What to do The risk of eating contaminated produce is much greater now than it has been in ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 15 2016 - 9:30am

Near 20-Year High: Bee-pocalypse Postponed Again, Until 2017

for a number of reasons. First of all, there’s no plummeting of bee numbers. A full-strength hive can ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2016 - 4:30pm

The Real Cost Of Milk

gases than the world’s transport. Livestock production accounts for 70% of all agricultural land, ...

Article - The Conversation - May 24 2016 - 4:37pm