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Australia to sell 8m of seized Bitcoin
2016-05-30 14:52:57| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A collection of bitcoins worth about 8m, confiscated by police in Australia, will be auctioned off in June.
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Australia: Labor leader Bill Shorten visits the Great Barrier Reef which is under threat from climate change
2016-05-30 08:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
News.com.au: IF YOU are confused about what the major parties are doing about environment policy, youre not the only one. The subject has been bogged down in claims and counterclaims and no where was this more apparent than during a leaders debate on Sunday, and one held at the National Press Club earlier this month between the environment ministers. How do you make sense of it all? Here's our easy guide to understanding what's going on. WHY EVERYONE CARES ABOUT THE 'TARGET' Both Labor and Liberal parties...
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Australia: Bleaching kills off 'third of Great Barrier Reef coral'
2016-05-30 08:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Mass bleaching has destroyed as much as one third of the coral on the northern and central Great Barrier Reef in Australia, according to a research. Australian researchers found that around 35 percent of the coral in the northern and central sections of the reef is dead or dying, Terry Hughes, a professor with James Cook University, in Queensland, said on Monday. The findings, based on months of aerial and underwater surveys of the 2,300km reef off the country's east coast, are a major blow...
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Australia: Climate change action vital to reef
2016-05-30 06:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Both the Coalition and Labor admit saving the Great Barrier Reef from devastating bleaching will require action on climate change. Their leaders turned their campaign focus to protecting the environmental icon on Monday, with Labor pledging $377 million in new funding for research and management. The coalition promised $6 million for another boat to cull crown of thorns starfish. Labor's cash injection will go to improving water quality, streamlining management and science, including a $50 million...
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Australia: Bleaching May Have Killed Half the Coral on the Northern Great Barrier Reef, Scientists Say
2016-05-29 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef in the past three months has killed as much as half of the coral in the north but left large parts of the southern reaches with only minor damage, scientists in Australia said on Sunday. The current bleaching is the third to strike the roughly 1,400-mile-long reef in 18 years and the most extreme scientists have recorded. In the north, the mortality rates are off the scale, said Prof. Terry Hughes, the director of the ARC Center of Excellence for Coral...
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