Baird's 'war on trees' comes to Lismore and other top stories.

• Baird's 'war on trees' comes to Lismore

  

  Scene of a 2013 protest against clearing of Big Scrub rainforest at Whian Whian. Such clearing could become commonplace if new, watered down legislation is introduced, environment campaigners fear. Photo Jeff Dawson Chris Dobney A community meeting in Lismore has called on the Baird government to ‘end its war on trees’ and to increase protection for local bushland, wildlife and the climate by strengthening nature protection laws. Last Thursday’s meeting took place just hours before a walkout of..

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• David Nightingale: Gravity Waves

  

  When flying, it's sometimes possible to look down the domes of ordinary observatories such as in Hawaii or Chile, or onto radio telescopes in Puerto Rico or Jodrell Bank, but now, looking down on Italy or Germany or Louisiana or Washington state, it is possible, if not flying too high, to see L-shaped labs which are observatories for gravity waves. The arms of those 'L's are typically ~2 miles long each, and they house the laser beams that travel inside them. The setup in each lab is a powerf..

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• A map of the most vulnerable places on the planet

  

  Enlarge / Global snapshot of the Vegetation Sensitivity Index (VSI), which measures environmental sensitivity to a changing climate, using satellite data gathered between 2000-2013 at 5km resolution. Areas in green are covered in vegetation that is the least sensitive to changes. Areas in red show the highest sensitivity. Grey areas are barren land or ice covered. Water is blue. Sedon, et. al. Climate change isn't just one, uniform transformation of the planet. Over time, some areas are goin..

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• An Early Homo Sapiens Left Africa, Mated With Neanderthals and Went Extinct

  

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• Apollo 10 astronauts heard 'weird music' while on the dark side of the Moon in 1969

  

  “Weird music” heard by Apollo 10 astronauts during a trip round the dark side of the Moon in 1969 are getting a mass public airing, after Nasa had shelved the recordings for decades. The second US spaceship to orbit the Moon, Apollo 10 was the dress rehearsal for Neil Armstrong’s famous landing two months later. Recordings made while Apollo 10 was out of contact around the back of the Moon have been unearthed and will be broadcast on the new series of the Science Channel’s Nasa’s Unexplained Fi..

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• Pollution meeting to be held in Brisbane

  

  Pollution meeting to be held in BrisbaneAir pollution monitoring and its shortcomings in Queensland will be on the agenda at a Brisbane meeting of health experts, lawyers and community groups.Environmental Justice Australia (EJA) has raised concerns about a lack of pollution monitoring in the entire central Queensland coalfields.The region of more than one million square kilometres contained more than half of the country's 20 most polluting coal mines, the group said."Queensland's current system..

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• Climate change deal risked by CSIRO cuts

  

  Climate change deal risked by CSIRO cuts

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• 7000-yr-old settlement found in Jerusalem - J

  

  Browse > Home / News / 7,000-yr-old settlement found in Jerusalem - J-Wire 7,000-yr-old settlement found in Jerusalem February 21, 2016 Agencies Read on for article The remains of an ancient settlement from the Chalcolithic period approximately 7,000 years ago were unearthed in north Jerusalem during archaeological excavations on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority prior to the laying of a road in the Shuʻfat neighborhood. Excavation director Ronit Lupo of the Israel Antiqu..

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