Tasmanian Times
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1.4KHarsh lessons of a bushfire horror
Map showing area of fires and the Tasman Peninsula {on right} The bushfires in early January 2013 affected many people with the...
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The Burning Question
Pic: Matty Tuffin While my heart goes out to all those people and animals who have been affected by the recent fires...
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Climate Change: It’s time to speak up …
Picture from the Wikipedia 2013 bushfires overview, here IPCC authors, Dr Abha Chhabra from the Indian Space Research Organisation and Dr William...
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Oprah: Armstrong ‘met the moment’ with admission
Lance Armstrong has finally come clean. Armstrong confessed to doping during an interview with Oprah Winfrey taped on Monday, just a couple...
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Tarkine mines could be last straw for Tasmanian devils
Road traffic is a threat to Tasmania’s few health devils – increased truck traffic in the Tarkine won’t help. Rhys Allen Just...
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Climate change: not a civilized problem
Soon after the fire that destroyed whole towns in Victoria I made a comment that one Tasmanian politician saw as inappropriate in...
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Cow of a time for Gunns
Just when you thought the Gunns saga couldnt get any more bizzare … The administrators are auctioning Gunns’ ornamental cows which once...
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Dead-tree media and the battle to control online content
Irish newspapers created quite a stir when they demanded a fee for incoming links to their content. Actually, this is a mere...
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The Grime Behind the Crime
It seemed, at first, preposterous. The hypothesis was so exotic that I laughed. The rise and fall of violent crime during the...
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Extreme temperatures by the end of the century. The hoax we had to have
Image here • David Spratt, “Most of Australia” can expect extreme temperatures of more than 50 degrees by end of century: Climate...
