By MARIAN WILKINSON ENVIRONMENT EDITORNovember 23, 2009 SYDNEY sweltered in near record-breaking heat yesterday as the temperature climbed above 40 degrees across the city just after 3pm. At the airport the mercury hit 42.5, pipping Penrith's high of 42.1. And...
By Michael McCarthy, Environment EditorWednesday, 21 July 2010 It is the emblematic bird of sexual fidelity – and just like sexual fidelity itself, it is rapidly on the wane. The turtle dove, famed in folklore and literature as the...
By Brian Merchant, Brooklyn, New York on 05. 9.10 The debate over whether or not oil from the massive slick in the Gulf of Mexico would wash ashore on the mainland is over: It already has, and I've got the...
