Month: January 2006

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after their second day they’re becoming pretty active, not to mention fluffy. 

Some of them are getting pretty bouncy, others looked like they might have only hatched a few hours ago. 

and four more yet to hatch. I’ve had to move them to our new save the duckling from cats and foxes enclosure. I think it was a little traumatic for Nasturtium, but she’ll be cool I suspect. They all look pretty happy. And now I’ll be able to sleep at night not having to worry…

4 so far today, should be some more as she’s still sitting on another 8 or so eggs! 

Up to 15,000 Australians would die each year from heat-related illness, bushfires would double and some of the nation’s most treasured icons would disappear under the federal government’s climate plan, a conservation group claims. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has attacked the government’s strategy for tackling global warming, saying the “business as usual”…

The 2006 G20 meeting of finance ministers, reserve bank governors and the heads of the World Bank and IMF will take place in Melbourne on November 18-19. This will be the most significant gathering in Melbourne of people responsible for pushing corporate-led globalisation, neoliberalism and capitalism since the World Economic Forum in 2000. Here are…

Science Discovery: Bushcronium, A New Element by Dr Julius Sumner Miller II Tuesday January 17, 2006 at 10:04 AM A major research institution has just announced the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element has been named “Bushcronium.” Bushcronium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224…

Environment in crisis: ‘We are past the point of no return’ Thirty years ago, the scientist James Lovelock worked out that the Earth possessed a planetary-scale control system which kept the environment fit for life. He called it Gaia, and the theory has become widely accepted. Now, he believes mankind’s abuse of the environment is…

“THE world has already passed the point of no return on global warming, and efforts to slow it may already be doomed, one of Britain’s best-known environmentalists says. In what The Independent described as the bleakest assessment yet of the effects of climate change by a leading scientist, Professor James Lovelock said billions would die…