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Elderly man hit by car, killed in northern Hobart suburb of Lenah Valley

An elderly man has been struck by a car and killed in the northern Hobart suburb of Lenah Valley. Emergency services are at the scene of the accident, which took place on Girrabong Road between Baldwin Place and Gurney Court. The driver escaped with ... >> view original

Winter laneway festivals continue to warm spirits across Hobart CBD

The reinvention of Hobart laneways is continuing thanks to mini-festivals, and this Saturday Bidencopes Lane will light up with street art and music for one night. The One Night Winter Festival, celebrating mid-winter, will see the under-utilised alley ... >> view original

New lead in Tas disappearance, 46 years on

A secluded roadside scrubland on the outskirts of Hobart is where police are confident of finding the remains of a woman missing for almost 46 years. Typist and beauty pageant entrant Lucille Butterworth was 20 years old when she went missing on August ... >> view original

View from a shell: GoPro camera captures a sea turtle's journey through the ...

This image, provided by the World Wildlife Fund, show's the view from a sea turtle's shell as it swims through the Great Barrier Reef. Buy this photo. Posted: Friday, July 3, 2015 5:01 pm | Updated: 7:43 pm, Fri Jul 3, 2015. View from a shell: GoPro ... >> view original

South Georgia received record number of visitors during 2014/15 cruise season

The island of South Georgia attracted the highest ever number of cruise ship passengers in the 2014/15 season, in contrast to falling numbers of tourists visiting the Antarctic, according to the May edition of the South Georgia Newsletter. Print; Share ... >> view original

Scientists convinced European heat waves boosted by climate change

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As Germany and Spain sweated and London sweltered through its hottest July day on record this week, scientists said it is "virtually certain" that climate change is increasing the likelihood of such heat waves in ... >> view original

Divers Film Great White And Tiger Sharks Feasting On Sperm Whale

A group of recreational divers off the Australian coast managed to film several great white and tiger sharks, as the predators feasted upon the remains of a dead sperm whale. The footage was captured off the north coast of New South Wales on Thursday, ... >> view original

S'pore pledges to rein in greenhouse emissions by 2030

Singapore has set itself the ambitious target of stopping any further increases to its greenhouse gas emissions by around 2030. It has also pledged to become greener economically, by reducing the amount of greenhouse gases emitted to achieve each ... >> view original

Climate causes sex reversal in bearded dragon

Australia's bearded dragon may be rapidly becoming extinct, due to a strange phenomenon never before observed in the wild. While other animals face extinction due to human encroachment and decline of food supply, the climate is actually playing a ... >> view original

'Invisible' protein structure explains the power of enzymes

A research group at Umeå University in Sweden has managed to capture and describe a protein structure that, until now, has been impossible to study. The discovery lays the base for developing designed enzymes as catalysts to new chemical reactions for ... >> view original