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'Angry' Australian summer weather smashes records

Sydney - Arab today

Australia endured a summer of record-breaking extremes, scientists said Wednesday, with climate change tipped to increase the frequency and severity of such phenomena. Intense heatwaves, bushfires and flooding plagued the December-February summer season with more than 200 records broken over 90 days, the independent Climate Council said in a report. "Climate change -- driven largely by the burning ofRead more

'Angry' Australian summer weather smashes records

Sydney - Arab today

'Angry' Australian summer weather smashes records

Sydney - Arab Today

Australia endured endured a summer of record-breaking extremes, scientists said on Wednesday, with climate change tipped to increase the frequency and severity of such phenomena. Intense heatwaves, bushfires and flooding plagued the December-February summer season with more than 200 records broken over 90 days, the independent Climate Council said in a report. "Climate change -- driven largely by the burningRead more

Australia Boosts Climate Science Research in U-Turn

Sydney - QNA

Australia made an abrupt climate change u-turn Thursday, with the issue set to again become a key focus of the national science agency just months after it saw hundreds of jobs cut in a heavily criticised move. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, a former environment minister, has long been seen as a supporter of action on climate change but his governmentRead more

Aussie scientists to assist China in developing world's largest single-dish telescope

Canberra - XINHUA

Australian scientists have teamed up with China's National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) to develop crucial technology in the world's largest single-dish telescope. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) revealed on Thursday that it would offer a significant contribution to the Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) project, with its scientists set toRead more

Cactus skin discovery to revolutionize electric car industry

Canberra - XINHUA

Australian scientists have looked to the unassuming cactus in an effort to increase the performance of fuel cells in electric cars, in a discovery which could revolutionize the electric vehicle (EV) industry. Scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have developed a membrane similar to one found in the humble cactus which could improve the efficiency ofRead more