Tasmanian Times
Sciences
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836Study links wildfire smoke exposure to reduced immune system function
10-day episode of wildfire smoke in 2008 offers unexpected research opportunity Sacramento — An ARB-funded study at the California National Primate Research...
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Australia reaches nearly two million small scale solar systems
Clean Energy Regulator says Australia now has 2 million small scale renewable energy systems – enough to power Perth, Hobart, Darwin and...
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A selective high school in Tasmania would be greeted favourably by Christopher Pyne
A response to Hans Willink: Grammar – A Selective Public High School A late contribution. The creation of a selective high school...
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Tasmania’s ban on genetically modified crops made indefinite in bid to protect clean, green brand
The Tasmanian Government has extended indefinitely the state’s moratorium on genetically modified crops and animals. The blanket ban on genetically modified organisms...
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Missing millions and the law of triviality
ABC pic of Lara Giddings and David Bartlett … building a stronger Tasmania … Parkinson’s law of triviality briefly states that the...
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Harpoon ship stopped. Harpoon ship poised. Fleet disarray. Whales killed inside sanctuary. Brett …
Nisshin Maru leaves the Antarctic Treaty Zone. Pic: Eliza Muirhead / Sea Shepherd Australia • UPDATE, January 9, PM: Harpoon ship stopped!...
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Running Ghost Tours in Tasmania?
Extant, Extinct or Eradicated? Does Tasmania’s economy depend on maintaining the existence of two mythic (cryptic) creatures? Over the past 70 years...
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Code Fail
All about Isaac Asimov, Wikipedia, here Bouncing around the Web in the first week of January were snippets from a 1964 article...
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Abbott’s eco folly will cost us
HEARTACHE from the flooding of Lake Pedder in 1973 by a state government hell bent on development galvanised a global green movement...
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Climate change models underestimate likely temperature rise, report shows
Estelle Ross: Evening (cloud) reflections on the Tamar River … The Earth’s climate is far more sensitive to carbon dioxide emissions than...
