Catastrophic bushfire weather hits South Australia

[Looks like 2011 will be the year of Hell and High Water for Australia.] ABCSat Jan 1, 2011 10:55am AEDT Fire warnings remain in place across South Australia, though a cool change has removed the threat of catastrophic conditions. The weather bureau says temperatures started to fall across South Australia with the arrival of a […]

Video: Australia floods extend across Queensland

Flooding across Australia’s northeast is continuing to cause chaos and shows no sign of abating. The country’s now recorded its wettest spring, causing six major river systems in Queensland state to burst their banks. An area bigger than France and Germany combined has been affected, with some 22 towns across the state inundated, leaving some […]

Floods cover vast area of northeast Australia

By Bruce Hextall; Editing by Robert Birsel31 Dec 2010 SYDNEY (Reuters) – Floodwater rose across a vast area in Australia’s northeast on Friday, inundating 22 towns, forcing 200,000 residents out of their homes, and closing a major sugar export port. Flooding has already shut coal mines in Queensland state and its biggest coal export port, […]

Budding research links climate change and earlier flowering plants

ScienceDaily (Jan. 1, 2011) — According to research published November 16 by a University of Cincinnati faculty member, native plants in southwestern Ohio are flowering significantly earlier, a finding he attributes, at least in part, to global warming. UC biologist Denis Conover, field service associate professor, has spent countless hours walking the Shaker Trace Wetlands […]

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