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Could snowpiercing and cloud brightening restore the polar ice caps?
The rocky coastline near Darwin was the floor of a vast tropical sea that separated southern supercontinent Gondwana from the northern landmass of Laurasia. The Cretaceous-period sediments exposed in the rocks of this former ‘Tethys...
More hail days and huge hailstones for Australia
Why are Mercury, Jupiter & other planets losing weight?
While our Hemisphere watches Antarctic glaciers shrinking, floating sea ice in the Arctic is melting faster than even the most dire forecasts predicted. Can we find a way to save the ice? While our Hemisphere watches Antarctic glaciers...
First astronomers noticed that Mercury is shrinking, then the gas giants, and Venus, Mars and even Earth. Now they are watching exoplanets shrinking too. What’s going on? In 1974, astronomers were surprised to discover that Mercury is...
We all know what to do when hail threatens: get the car under cover and hunker down. Now a new warning: as global temperatures rise, hailstones will get even bigger. Most Australians know what to do when a hailstorm threatens: get the car...
Rice contains arsenic, with levels rising alongside global temperatures and CO2 – and arsenic is not the only toxin in our daily food. Scientists have suggestions to minimise exposure. Rice already contains surprising levels of arsenic,...
