Issued on: 23/03/2020 – 04:43 The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) said on Monday it could not assemble a team for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to the coronavirus outbreak and that its athletes should prepare for the Games to be postponed to 2021. Advertising Read more AOC Chief Executive Matt Carroll said the AOC’s executive […]
Around the world, the coronavirus outbreak is taking its toll on countries’ national health systems and impacting dramatically on the public’s way of life. In Italy, doctors say hospitals are on the brink of collapse as they struggle to deal with the number of patients. In the US, Illinois and New York state have joined […]
Scientists have published the first assessment quantifying the role of climate change in the recent Australian bushfires. Global warming boosted the risk of the hot, dry weather that’s likely to cause bushfires by at least 30%, they say. But the study suggests the figure is likely to be much greater. It says that if global […]
By Adam Vaughan Fires in northern New South Wales pumped smoke into the airOrbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data/Gallo Images via Getty Images Australia’s recent wildfires burned an area of forest unprecedented anywhere in the world, according to the most authoritative analysis yet of the devastation. The blazes were also found to be so extreme that climate […]
A still image taken from a time lapse video shows novel coronavirus 2019-nCov growing in Vero E6 cells, in Melbourne, Australia released January 29, 2020. Dr Julian Druce – Vidrl, The Doherty Institute via REUTER SYDNEY (Reuters) – A team of scientists in Australia said on Wednesday they have successfully developed a lab-grown version of […]
The death toll and infected rate from the Wuhan coronavirus in China has increased dramatically, while the first cases have been reported in countries as widespread as France and Australia, leading health authorities around the globe scrambling to prevent a pandemic. China on January 25 said that 41 people have died and at least 1,287 […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have identified Earth’s oldest-known impact crater, and in doing so may have solved a mystery about how our planet emerged from one of its most dire periods. FILE PHOTO: An illustration shows glaciers covering the planet in ice in a so-called Òsnowball EarthÓ period billions of years ago. NASA/Handout via REUTERS […]
Issued on: 18/01/2020 – 15:00Modified: 18/01/2020 – 15:00 Parts of Australia’s east coast were hit by severe storms on Saturday, dousing some of the bushfires that have devastated the region for months but causing road closures and flash flooding. Advertising Read more Fears of smoke from the fires disrupting the Australian Open tennis receded in […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A meteorite that crashed into rural southeastern Australia in a fireball in 1969 contained the oldest material ever found on Earth, stardust that predated the formation of our solar system by billions of years, scientists said on Monday. A scanning electron micrograph of a presolar silicon carbide grain, about 8 micrometers in […]
Issued on: 11/01/2020 – 13:20Modified: 11/01/2020 – 13:20 Tune into our special edition of Down to Earth devoted to the bushfires plaguing Australia. Advertising As the crisis in Australia enters its fifth consecutive month, more than 150 fires are still raging across the continent, some of them merging to create what’s known as mega-blazes. Already […]