Tue Nov 29, 2011
ONLINE BRIEFING: 10am AEDT Mon 28 November EMBARGO LIFTED at 00.01am AEDT Tue 29 November A new report details the importance of the Southern Ocean for Australia. Scientists are realising just how much protection the ocean offers us by acting as a sink that absorbs huge amounts of heat and carbon dioxide, slowing down the [...]
Mon Oct 10, 2011
Below are comments obtained by our colleagues at the New Zealand Science Media Centre on the clean up of the Rena oil spill in New Zealand.
Mon Apr 4, 2011
ONLINE MEDIA BRIEFING FROM GREENHOUSE 2011 (Cairns) – Tuesday 5 April at 10.30am AEST online Ocean acidification (where the water becomes more acidic) is often called ‘the evil twin of climate change’ and is considered by many to be as great a problem as increasing temperatures.
Mon Dec 13, 2010
ONLINE BACKGROUND BRIEFING – Tuesday 14 December at 9.30am AEDT online The scientific research vessel JOIDES Resolution will today dock in Auckland Harbour, carrying with it a cargo of deep sea sediment cores that could answer big questions about the limits to life on Earth and the possibility of life on other planets. Collected from [...]
Thu Sep 23, 2010
New research on the cooling of the Earth’s surface that occurred in the 1970s suggests that the culprit might in fact have been the rapid cooling oceans in the Northern Hemisphere rather than the increase in sulphate aerosols from pollution and volcanic eruptions which have traditionally been blamed for this hiatus in global warming.
Mon Jun 28, 2010
The International Whaling Commission granted Greenland the right to hunt nine humpback whales a year for its inuit population. The decision came at the end of the commission’s 62nd annual meeting in Agadir, Morocco, on Saturday. A ban on commercial whaling has remained in force after delegates failed to agree on a proposal to lift [...]
Fri Nov 27, 2009
The first-ever Australian benchmark of climate change impacts on marine ecosystems and options for adaptation is being released in Brisbane today. The work of more than 70 marine scientists, the Marine Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Report Card for Australia, has found Australian ocean temperatures are warming, with south-west and south-eastern waters warming fastest.
Tue Nov 17, 2009
The Federation of Australian Science and Technological Societies (FASTS) released a statement signed by 13 prominent experts and briefed parliamentarians on the risks to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) from climate change.