Science news articles about 'canberra australia'

  • Australia's Koalas at risk from climate change

    CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Koalas are threatened by the rising level of carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere because it saps nutrients from the eucalyptus leaves they feed on, a researcher said ...
  • Australia opens national tsunami warning center

    CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia became an integral link in a network of tsunami warning hubs across the Indian and Pacific oceans with the official opening of a ...
  • Australia struggling with deep-sea rescues

    CANBERRA, Australia, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Submariners in Australia face a slim possibility of deep-sea rescue because the government has been unable to create an adequate system, experts say.
  • Tasmanian devils listed as endangered in Australia

    CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- The Tasmanian devil, a snarling fox-sized marsupial made notorious by its Looney Tunes cartoon namesake Taz, was listed in Australia as an endangered species Friday ...
  • Platypus genome unravels mysteries of mammalian evolution

    ... or Camilla Whittington, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (+61-421851793) 2. Platypus genome reveals ... , Ph.D., Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. (waters@rsbs.anu.edu.au ...
  • Australian dilemma: too many kangaroos, too few devils

    CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Too many kangaroos, too few Tasmanian devils. Two of the country's beloved icons are challenging Australians' thinking on wildlife management....
  • More climate change ocean studies urged

    CANBERRA, Australia, June 11 (UPI) -- Australian scientists say Earth's science community must devote more research into the effect climate change is having on our oceans.
  • Astronomy without borders on show in China

    CANBERRA, Australia, June 23 (UPI) -- Australian astronomers working in China say they've remotely controlled telescopes in three nations and streamed the data to a New South Wales observatory.
  • Scientists discover a new Pacific iguana

    ... the Americas," said Scott Keogh, an Associate Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, and lead author of the study. The highest islands of Fiji have been continuously ...
  • Australian leader holds firm on climate change

    CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- World leaders must deal with the threat of global climate change despite the spreading "cancer" of the global financial crisis, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said ...
  • Tasmanian devils threatened by contagious cancer

    CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Tasmania is trying to save the devil....
  • Scientists discover honey bees can count

    CANBERRA, Australia, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Australian and German scientists say they have discovered honey bees can tell the difference between different numbers at a glance.
  • Relocation, relocation, relocation

    ... of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, and colleagues Ruhul Sarker of the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia and Ziaul Al-Mahmud of Lethbridge Community Network, have devised a mathematical ...
  • Aussies Hopping Mad Over Kangaroo Cull

    Canberra, Australia's capital, has a problem: too many kangaroos. Now they're proposing a cull. But many people are aghast at the idea of their best-known marsupial and national symbol being shot en ...
  • Aussies Hopping Mad Over Kangaroo Cull

    Canberra, Australia's capital, has a problem: too many kangaroos. Now they're proposing a cull. But many people are aghast at the idea of their best-known marsupial and national symbol being shot en ...

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