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2015-05-26 Australia Science


Sydney Morning Herald
   
Poisonous cane toads: Researchers discover the most humane way to kill the ...   
Sydney Morning Herald
The most humane way to kill cane toads is to put them in the freezer alive, Sydney researchers have found. The once-popular method was used to kill millions of the poisonous pests until it was banned 20 years ago because animal ethics committees ...

Scientists use brain electrodes to find freezing toads the best way to get them to ...   ABC Online
Scientists explain how to 'humanely' kill a cane toad   The New Daily
The most humane way to kill a cane toad   Northern Star

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ABC Online
   
UNESCO to decide if Great Barrier Reef is 'in danger'   
ABC Online
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is this week expected to decide if Australia's Great Barrier Reef should be classified as "in danger". Auskar Surbakti speaks to energy and environment editor from The ...

Great Barrier Reef: Mining industry told foreign journalists ports not a danger   Sydney Morning Herald
Great Barrier Reef's 'single biggest risk' is climate change   The Australian Financial Review

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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Neil de Grasse Tyson advocates "militarized" space race to Mars   
The Space Reporter
Astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson believes a new space race between the US and China to land astronauts on Mars and build a military base there could revitalize the stagnant American manned space program. While emphasizing he does not support ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson's answer to innovation stagnation: a space race to Mars   Sydney Morning Herald

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The Nation
   
Rare albino sparrow spotted in Australia   
The Nation
A rare pure white sparrow has been spotted in Australia, leaving ornithologists all aflutter Monday. The albino was photographed at Sanctuary Lakes near Melbourne, but it is not expected to survive long with its snowy white plumage making it stand out to ...

Rare albino sparrow photographed in Vic   NEWS.com.au
Rare albino sparrow spotted in Melbourne's south-west   ABC Online

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BoM rejects Abbott adviser climate claims   
Herald Sun
THE Bureau of Meteorology has rejected several "incorrect" claims about climate change by Tony Abbott's chief business adviser. MAURICE Newman, chairman of the prime minister's business advisory council, wrote an opinion piece earlier this month ...


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Sydney Morning Herald
   
'Redundant' CSIRO scientist elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science   
Sydney Morning Herald
World-leading chemist San Thang, who attracted headlines late last year after CSIRO made him redundant the very month he was named a frontrunner for the prestigious Nobel Prize in chemistry, has been elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of ...

UQ leads the way: five scientists lauded among 21 of the nation's best   UQ News
Four ANU scientists elected to Australian Academy of Science in Canberra   ABC Online

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CIO Australia
   
Offshore sensors record NSW Coast wave data   
CIO Australia
Brian Baker, Deputy Director-General, Office of Finance and Services (NSW Public Works), Victor Dominello, Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation, and Edward Couriel, Principal Engineer (Coastal Strategy) inspecting Waverider buoys at Manly ...

NSW Government improves destructive storm response with Internet of Things   ARNnet
Waverider buoys help surfers and lifesavers determine ocean conditions at ...   ABC Online

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Sky News Australia
   
Aust to oppose Japan's whaling plan   
Sky News Australia
The federal government says it would be premature to take Japan back to court over the possible resumption of whaling in the Southern Ocean. The International Whaling Commission is reviewing a Japanese proposal for a 12-year scientific program to catch ...

Aust to oppose Japan lethal whaling plan   9news.com.au
Scientists seek to ban proposal to kill whales for research   New Zealand Herald
Close to Home: Future of gray whales still unclear   Santa Rosa Press Democrat

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CBC.ca
   
Greenhouse gas emissions: How can Canada cut 30% by 2030?   
CBC.ca
When the federal government announced its plan to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, it gave little indication how it planned to do it, exactly. Canada produced 749 megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in 2005, ...

Study: Young lower-income folks good for the environment   TheChronicleHerald.ca
Canada's climate target is a smokescreen and full of loopholes   The Conversation AU

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Sky News Australia
   
Qld scientists create 'unfrogettable' app   
Sky News Australia
Queensland scientists have developed a ribbiting app that can identify a frog by its croak and shows what species can be found where. The Frogs of Australia - eGuide features descriptions, location maps, call sounds and photographs for nearly all of ...


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