“Some third-party sources and media outlets have suggested that the east coast of Australia is experiencing a third La Niña. This reporting does not reflect the complexity of Australia’s climate and is not entirely accurate,” said BOM. It looks like it will be a wet spring according to the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) who says…
University of Melbourne Professor Andrew Pask believes that within ten years we could see a living baby thylacine. Source: Ricardo Guimarães, Flickr. A multi-million dollar project is planning to bring back the Tasmanian tiger to its native Tasmania, after being extinct for almost 90 years. Tasmanian tigers, or thylacines, have not been verifiably sighted since…
Green detailed his transition experience to the IGR Bingham Cup Summit in Canada. Source: IGR Bingham Cup. The gold medallist and former rugby union player has become the first Olympian to come out as a trans man saying that he’s in a much better place now. In a video released on August 16 for the…
She was convicted on four extra counts of corruption in a trial held behind closed doors with no media or public access and lawyers forbidden by a gag order to say information about proceedings. Source: World Economic Forum, Flickr. A court in the military-controlled Myanmar has sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to six…
The researchers say the newly discovered Jakapil kaniukura, looks to be a relative of armoured dinosaurs like the Stegosaurus or Ankylosaurus Source: PaleoGDY, Twitter. Paleontologists have found fossils of a previously unknown species of armoured dinosaurs that weigh about as much as a house cat. The paleontologists at the Félix de Azara Natural History Foundation…
The local community helped palaeontologists with their excavation, working together to collect as many bones as they could find. Source: Grand Rapids Public Museum. A lucky group of construction workers in the US state of Michigan discovered several bones belonging to an animal called a mastodon. The crew were excavating road near Kent City at…
“Crop declines would be the most severe in the mid-high latitude nations, including major exporting countries such as Russia and the U.S., which could trigger export restrictions and cause severe disruptions in import-dependent countries in Africa and the Middle East,” said Rutgers University. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Rutgers University has suggested that a nuclear war between…
Scott Morrison said he was making himself a backup to other ministers during the height at the pandemic and called it a “safeguard and a redundancy”. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison defended the decision to secretly appoint himself joint minister of the health, finance and resource portfolios. While talking to Sydney radio…
The motive behind the incident is still unknown. Source: Wikimedia Commons. South Australian police have arrested a woman after she supposedly stabbed her two children in a car late last night. According to the report, officers were called by a member of the public to the North South Motorway at Wingfield around 11:30pm last night.…
The Indian born British novelist was removed from a ventilator and able to talk. Source: Asia Society, Flickr. Salman Rushdie is beginning his long recovery after being repeatedly stabbed before a public appearance over the weekend in New York. The author was scheduled to give a lecture at Chautauqua Institution, a nonprofit education centre, when…