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The Super Pit is Australia???s largest open pit gold mine, producing around 850,000 ounces of the precious metal annually.

Geology needs to reinvent itself as we fight against climate change

2 February 2022

It is time for geology to embrace our sustainable future and, in turn, be accorded the respect it deserves as a discipline crucial to understanding the world and our relationship to it


The way we are going about saving coral reefs is all wrong

The way we are going about saving coral reefs is all wrong

2 February 2022

Coral gardening projects are more popular than ever to help reefs recover from the effects of a warming ocean, but they are a distraction away from the real solutions, says Catherine Collins


A driverless car that went rogue could be a taste of the robo uprising

A driverless car that went rogue could be a taste of the robo uprising

2 February 2022

The recent case of a driverless car that tried to escape its handlers might make us laugh, but it also warns us about what could happen when AI is given a "body", writes Annalee Newitz


The Evenlode is a 75 kilometre-long river in the Cotswolds, England, plagued with water pollution in recent years. Aerial view of the Evenlode.

How a Cotswolds river may show the way to clean up England's waterways

2 February 2022

The Evenlode in Oxfordshire, UK, has been plagued by pollution, but farmers, the water industry and local volunteers are working together to clean it up


People walk past daffodils in Green Park in central London on March 26, 2021. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP) (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

UK's spring flowers are blooming a month early due to climate change

2 February 2022

The shift to early flowering in the UK is greater for smaller plants than trees and shrubs, and is related to warming temperatures in winter and spring over the past 70 years


This data image shows the monthly average sea surface temperature for May 2015. Between 2013 and 2016, a large mass of unusually warm ocean water--nicknamed the blob--dominated the North Pacific, indicated here by red, pink, and yellow colors signifying temperatures as much as three degrees Celsius (five degrees Fahrenheit) higher than average. Data are from the NASA Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (MUR SST) Analysis product.

Extreme marine heatwaves are now normal for the world's oceans

1 February 2022

Since 2014, more than half of the ocean surface across the globe has recorded temperatures considered extreme compared with a historical average


Lighting, thunder and severe weather on the Great Plains

Lightning flash measuring 768 kilometres is the longest ever recorded

1 February 2022

Two record-breaking lightning flashes occurred in 2020: one with a length of 768 kilometres is the longest ever recorded, while another with a duration of 17 seconds is the longest-lasting flash ever detected


rail commuters

Game theory shows how people crowd on trains at rush hour

31 January 2022

Using a combination of game theory and the physics of complex systems, it’s possible to model the behaviour of a rush hour commuter crowd


Happy senior woman waving hand at video call through smart phone while sitting on steps at home

Birthday wishes inadvertently give away private information online

31 January 2022

Thousands of tweets every day expose other users’ date of birth, which could help criminals access their private accounts


Three kookaburras sitting on steel post with rainbow in the background

1 in 3 birds tested at an Australian animal hospital have chlamydia

31 January 2022

A survey of birds entering an Australian animal hospital shows a huge number of them carry chlamydia, including strains never seen before


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