Duck Lake performance a protest against hunting and other top stories.

• Duck Lake performance a protest against hunting

  

  TAS: Duck Lake was part of an art-meets-activism event to scare away ducks at the start of the hunting season on Saturday. Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake became Duck Lake as Animals Tasmania supporters protested against the first day of the recreational duck hunting season.AS THE music to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake broke the dawn silence over the East Coast’s Moulting Lagoon, six performers wearing bright pink tutus and hard hats began a performance on a floating stage.The performance, Duc..

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• Total solar eclipse to darken part of Indonesia

  

  Jakarta: The rare and awe-inspiring spectacle of a total solar eclipse will unfold over parts of Indonesia and the Indian and Pacific Oceans on Wednesday, weather permitting. The full eclipse may be visible to several million people within its narrow path including eclipse chasers who have travelled from around the world for a chance to witness it. WHAT CAUSES A TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE? At least twice a year, the orbits of the moon and earth result in the moon casting a shadow on the earth that bloc..

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• South African 'Shark Spotters' brought to Australia

  

  South African 'Shark Spotters' brought to Australia Posted March 07, 2016 12:13:04 South African representatives from the Shark Spotters program will this week start an Australian tour in WA to explain a scheme that has proven successful in Cape Town.Shark Spotters, which involves volunteers in surveillance, warnings and emergency assistance, was adopted in Cape Town after a spate of attacks.Conservation groups Sea Shepherd and No Shark Cull have brought project manag..

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• Mars' tilt attributed to massive volcanic activity at Tharsis volcanic dome

  

  Mars wasn’t always the way it looks like today with the planet garnering the new face some 3 to 3.5 billion years ago after it tilted by 20 to 25 degrees because of massive volcanic activity at Tharsis volcanic dome. This is the claim put forward through a new study by an international team of geomorphologists, geophysicists and climatologists including those from France, and US. The dome is the largest of its kind in our Solar System and authors of the new study published in Nature claim th..

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• Million-year-old ice the 'holy grail' of climate research in Antarctica

  

  Million-year-old ice the 'holy grail' of climate research in Antarctica Updated March 07, 2016 19:04:08 The mission to unlock the secrets of Antarctica's deep, old ice will be a major feature of a week-long climate science conference beginning in Hobart today. About 200 scientists from 22 countries are in Tasmania for the International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences conference, hosted by the Australian Antarctic Division and the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Coope..

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• Australia's 'ugly' animals attract less study

  

  Sydney - Koalas and kangaroos are subject to more scientific study than Australia's twitching rodents and bats, according to new research which finds 'ugly' animals attract less funding and investigation. The bias towards more attractive creatures means that while 'ugly' animals make up 45 per cent of Australia's native fauna, they are rarely subject to intense scientific scrutiny, said a study to be published in Mammal Review this week.Researcher Trish Fleming said once mammals were classed as..

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• Evidence found for unstable heavy element at solar system formation

  

  University of Chicago scientists have discovered evidence in a meteorite that a rare element, curium, was present during the formation of the solar system. This finding ends a 35-year-old debate on the possible presence of curium in the early solar system, and plays a crucial role in reassessing models of stellar evolution and synthesis of elements in stars. Details of the discovery appear in the March 4 edition of Science Advances. "Curium is an elusive element. It is one of the heavies..

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• China's emissions may have already peaked says economist Lord Nicholas Stern

  

  Chinese men pull a tricycle in a neighborhood next to a coal-fired power plant in Shanxi, China. Photo: Kevin Frayer/Getty China's mammoth carbon dioxide emissions are likely to peak before 2025, and may have already done so.In a new piece of research, prominent economist Lord Nicholas Stern has declared that China, easily the world's largest polluter of greenhouse gasses, may have already applied the brakes, well ahead of schedule.  If  this proves true, it ..

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• Technology tracks down an artist named Banksy, aka Robin Cunningham

  

  by The Economist Criminologists increasingly rely on "geographic profiling", an examination of the sites of dastardly deeds that narrows down the possible identities of serial criminals. A mathematical refinement of this idea has implications for pre-empting both terrorist activity and the progression of infectious disease.To demonstrate it, and to help settle a mystery, Steven Le Comber of Queen Mary, a college of the University of London, has used it to suggest th..

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