The following is a Media Release by the Cairns and Far North Environment Centre, dated August 13, 2014, and with the title above: The release of the 5 year Great Barrier Reef Outlook report and the final Strategic Assessment Report indicate that we have a long way to go to address declining reef health and avoid UNESCO listing the reef as World Heritage in Danger in 2015. The outlook report sends a clear and concerning message for...
Read MoreThe following is an article on the European Space Agency’s web site, dated August 6, 2014 and with the title above: After a decade-long journey chasing its target, ESA’s Rosetta has today become the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet, opening a new chapter in Solar System exploration. Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and Rosetta now lie 405 million kilometres from Earth, about half way between the orbits of...
Read MoreThe following article is from The UCSB Current, written by Julie Cohen, posted July 31, 2014, and titled “Tracking Giant Kelp From Space”: Citizen scientists worldwide are invited to take part in marine ecology research, and they won’t have to get their feet wet to do it. The Floating Forests project, an initiative spearheaded by scientists at UC Santa Barbara and UCLA, is calling on would-be researchers to examine...
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