Thursday, May 26, 2016

Former Linc Energy head ordered to clean up site of controversial gas project and other top stories.

  • Former Linc Energy head ordered to clean up site of controversial gas project

    Former Linc Energy head ordered to clean up site of controversial gas project
    Former Linc Energy head ordered to clean up site of controversial gas project Updated May 26, 2016 14:11:35 The Queensland Environment Department has issued an Environmental Protection Order (EPO) to the former chief executive of Linc Energy, Peter Bond, ordering him to clean up the site of the company's controversial underground gas project near Chinchilla. Key points:Peter Bond has been ordered to decommission the plantThe EPO also covers the rehabilitation soil and ..
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  • Glimmer of hope: Coral reefs may survive bleaching in deeper environments, finds study

    Glimmer of hope: Coral reefs may survive bleaching in deeper environments, finds study
    Sydney: Offering a glimmer of hope to those managing the impact of bleaching on the world's coral reefs, a new UN report has found that part of the ecosystem may survive in barely known deeper environments, known as mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs).Coral bleaching has affected virtually the entire Great Barrier Reef and many other coral reef systems globally. Getty images.Coral bleaching has affected virtually the entire Great Barrier Reef and many other coral reef systems globally, including ..
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  • The Large Hadron Collider Is Coming To Sydney (Sort Of)

    The Large Hadron Collider Is Coming To Sydney (Sort Of)
    As a part of the 2016 Sydney Science Festival the The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS) is “transporting” the world’s greatest science experiment, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to the Powerhouse Museum in an Australian first exhibition. Running from 11 August to 30 October, the exhibition from the Science Museum, London, Collider provides a behind-the-scenes look at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva that houses the LHC. In case you’ve been living under a rock, the LHC ..
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  • Artist Ken Done paints the biting beauty of Antarctica

    Artist Ken Done paints the biting beauty of Antarctica
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  • Scientists Develop Time Reverse Imaging Method to Take Real-Time Data from Ocean Sensors

    Scientists Develop Time Reverse Imaging Method to Take Real-Time Data from Ocean Sensors
    Seismologists have created a new algorithm that could one day help give coastal cities early warning of incoming tsunamis. Right now, tsunami warning systems rely on region-specific scenarios based on previous patterns in that area. That's because ...
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  • Young Sun Started Life On Earth, Study Reveals

    Young Sun Started Life On Earth, Study Reveals
    A study revealed that a young sun, which repeatedly bombarded superflares on Earth, sprouted life on this planet. Published in Nature Geoscience, the study unfolds the existence of Earth and how it became livable four billion years ago. The researchers ...
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  • A 100m-year bond threatened by climate change

    A 100m-year bond threatened by climate change
    NBL Live: Rams v Rangers Welcome to nzherald.co.nz's live streaming of the NZ NBL game between the Canterbury Rams and the Super City Rangers from…
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  • Physicists have figured out how supermassive black holes turn galaxies into cosmic graveyards

    Physicists have figured out how supermassive black holes turn galaxies into cosmic graveyards
    An international team of scientists appears to have solved a longstanding mystery in astronomy, identifying the potential cause of what turns galaxies from vibrant, star-producing systems into regions of space where no new stars are born. According to the researchers, this phenomenon – called quenching, where galaxies cease to create new stars – might be caused by low-energy supermassive black holes, which produce interstellar winds of such heat and intensity that they suppress the ability of s..
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  • 'We are prisoners in our own homes' 100000 BATS take over tiny Australian town

    'We are prisoners in our own homes' 100000 BATS take over tiny Australian town
    Batemans Bay, just south of Sydney, faces a state of emergency as the unusual natural disaster terrorises locals.Experts believe that one in four grey-headed flying foxes that live in Australia have now made their home in the town.The enormous influx of the species of megabats has easily overtaken the town which has a human population of just 11,000. Residents have complained about the foul odor and terrible screeching noise emitted by the unwanted inhabitants.Locals have been left feeling like ..
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Big surf closes beaches across Sydney, NSW .Sydney siege inquest: Police did not enter cafe earlier as first shot ... .
Legal highs ban 'will increase drug-related deaths' by moving sales underground .Frozen comets orbiting sun-like star may unveil properties of comet clouds around host stars .

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