All posts tagged "environment"

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  New research offers solution to riddle of ocean carbon storage

  Research by a team of the world’s leading oceanographers has proposed a new explanation for how the ocean absorbs and stores carbon,...

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  Fearless sea urchins stripping underwater forests

  A new study led by The University of Western Australia and the Centre of Advanced Studies of Blanes in Spain has found...

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  Greenhouse gas emissions reduction in steel manufacturing

  A project to research reducing greenhouse gas emissions in steel production has strong support from BlueScope Steel.

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  Menu change for corals in warming reefs

  Warming coral reefs are losing their capacity to feed themselves from sunlight, making nutritious deep ocean water critical for their survival, according...

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  Mutually-assured destruction in heated coral-algae war

  Global warming and acidifying oceans are creating an intense competition between coral and algae that both are set to lose.

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  Earth’s atmosphere subject to dramatic oxygen cycles

  New research by a team of Australian earth scientists indicates that oxygen in the atmosphere has varied greatly over geological time, far...

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  Stress and habitat linked to koala recovery

  New research led by Western Sydney University Stress Lab’s Dr Edward Narayan, has found the psychological state of wild koalas and the...

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  Balloons the #1 marine debris risk of mortality for seabirds

  A new Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) and CSIRO collaborative study has found that balloons are the highest-risk plastic debris...

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  Thirteen mammal extinctions prevented by havens

  A stocktake of Australia’s animal havens – conservation areas free of cats and foxes – has found that they have already prevented...

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  Reaching peak whale

  Research has revealed some large whale populations have defied over-exploitation and near-extinction to reach ‘peak’ abundance – or will do so early...