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Waterbirds in eastern Australia lowest breeding level on record
2015-12-26 15:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A stocktake of waterbirds in eastern Australia has shown the lowest breeding level on record. The annual aerial survey, conducted by the Centre for Ecosystem Science at the University of NSW, confirmed a dramatic long-term decline in the number of waterbirds. Director Richard Kingsford said that over 33 years of counting, average numbers had fallen more than 60 per cent. The trend continued in 2015 with a further drop compared to the previous three-to-five-year period. "This is the second...
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Australia counts cost of Christmas bushfires, flames rage on
2015-12-26 02:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Firefighters struggled on Saturday to contain out of control bushfires that have destroyed dozens of homes in one of Australia's leading tourist areas, and emergency services warned of dangerous conditions and more fires to come in the New Year. Emergency officials in Victoria state said rain overnight helped slow the path of fires that destroyed at least 53 homes on Friday along the picturesque Great Ocean Road, and forced residents to abandon Christmas celebrations to flee for their lives. Although...
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Australia: Debate Down Under
2015-12-24 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
The national broadband network remains a political football in Australia
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Want to Patent Natural Biological Material? Try Australia -- Maybe
2015-12-23 14:04:17| Biotech - Topix.net
If you want to patent non-modified biological material - say, genes as they occur in nature -- you're largely out of luck in the U.S. In 2013, the Supreme Court invalidated two patents for breast cancer-related genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2 , on the basis that naturally occurring DNA segments can't be patented. The USPTO's eligibility guidance has followed suit.
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Australia shares up on iron ore
2015-12-23 03:14:37| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Shares in Australia were higher on Wednesday, boosted by resource related stocks and following Wall Street's lead.
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