News tagged with australia
Related topics: climate change , google , earth , climate , virus
Lead pollution health impacts on kids still being ignored at Mount Isa
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research to be published in the editorial section of the Medical Journal of Australia on August 2 confirms that the source of elevated environmental lead levels and blood lead levels in children who li ...
Aug 02, 2010 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Mines and wines in Australia climate battle
Australian winemaker Brett Keating doesn't draw a parallel between the shorter, hotter seasons and slow creep of coal mining towards his land, but he is concerned.
Aug 02, 2010 |
3 / 5 (1) |
0
Australia govt expands proposed broadband network
(AP) -- Australia's government expanded its ambitious plan to bring broadband to much of the vast country, adding 300,000 homes and businesses to the coverage area Friday in hopes of winning votes in next month's federal ...
Jul 30, 2010 |
not rated yet |
0
Judges ponder location for Google privacy lawsuits
(AP) -- A panel of federal judges is deciding where to consolidate several lawsuits against Google Inc. alleging the company violated wiretapping laws.
Jul 29, 2010 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Palm trees may be not be native to Australia: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland research has found cabbage palms have not always called Australia home.
Jul 27, 2010 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
Massive mice, locust plagues threaten Australian crops
Plagues of mice and locusts are threatening huge swathes of Australia's farming heartland and could wipe out crops worth one billion dollars (880 million US), scientists warned Wednesday.
Jul 14, 2010 |
4.5 / 5 (2) |
0
Australia: Google Street View broke privacy law
(AP) -- Google broke Australia's privacy law when it collected private information from wireless networks, the country's privacy commissioner said Friday, following an investigation into the Internet giant's "Street View" ...
Jul 09, 2010 |
3 / 5 (1) |
0
Telstra strikes $10B deal for Australia broadband
(AP) -- The government and Australia's largest telecommunications company announced a deal Sunday that clears a major hurdle to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's plans for a superfast national broadband network.
Jun 20, 2010 |
4 / 5 (1) |
1
NASA aircraft to track Japanese spacecraft re-entry
(AP) -- A NASA flying observatory has left California on a mission to track a Japanese asteroid-sampling spacecraft as it returns to Earth on a course for Australia.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 10, 2010 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Conn. AG: Google gathered public Wi-Fi data to map
(AP) -- Connecticut's attorney general says Google has informed his office that it collected data over the state's public wireless networks in 2008 for its mapping service.
Jun 09, 2010 |
not rated yet |
1
Conn. investigating Google's use of private data
(AP) -- Connecticut's attorney general says he's investigating whether Google illegally collected data from personal and business wireless computer networks for its mapping service.
Jun 07, 2010 |
not rated yet |
0
Warming could change South Australia's weed pests
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hotter temperatures and reduced rainfall in South Australia due to climate change could prompt a period of 'weed change' across the state, according to a new report from CSIRO.
May 20, 2010 |
not rated yet |
0
Deforestation failure sounds climate alarm
(PhysOrg.com) -- Australia's failure to accurately measure and predict emissions from deforestation, and the difficulty it has had in reducing deforestation, should send a warning signal to the world, according ...
May 07, 2010 |
3 / 5 (2) |
0
River declines now causing havoc in birdlife in Australia
(PhysOrg.com) -- The slow death of one of Australia's iconic wetlands is causing dramatic upheavals in its bird populations, with species from surrounding farmland moving in to replace many small woodland ...
May 04, 2010 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Aboriginal hunting and burning increase Australia's desert biodiversity, researchers find
In Australia, Martu hunter-gatherers light fires to expose the hiding places of their prey: monitor lizards called goanna that can grow up to six feet long. These generations-old hunting practices, part of ...
May 03, 2010 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
