- February 12th, 2019
- Posted by EU Australia
Lee Duffield looks at floods, fires and blizzards this week, in a time of climate change …
The Northern Australian city of Townsville with some 20% of its suburban zones under water until the weekend might now be a model for the world, for possible climate change impacts and handling them. … Read More »
- February 15th, 2014
- Posted by EU Australia
People in South and South-west England, and some parts further North are facing up to another weekend of severe Winter storms, after weeks of continuing bad weather.
They have been bringing destructive winds, heavy seas along the coast, extreme flooding on the coast and well inland, and widespread snowfalls; with that, paralysis of traffic movements and blackouts. … Read More »
- December 31st, 2013
- Posted by EU Australia
The October boat-people tragedy; parliament’s distraction by Berlusconi; cyclonic floods…
SILVIO BERLUSCONI – SPOT OF BOTHER
The Berlusconi episode in public life, in Italy, looked to be coming to a sorry and bitter end, when the former Prime Minister’s desperate-looking ploy to unseat the government came unstuck. … Read More »
- December 30th, 2013
- Posted by EU Australia
Gatherings in Warsaw and Colombo kept the international community’s focus on anxiety about climate change and sustainability, at the year’s end, though the Australians started to march out of step.
Actions on the home front in Australia show clear trends in a ‘non-environmentalist’ direction.
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- March 31st, 2013
- Posted by 7thmin
OPINION: Some extreme weather this Easter season is a reminder that climate itself looks to be changing.
TIMES OF HARMONY
The date of the “moving feast†of Easter has to do with the full moon and changing seasons. … Read More »
- January 22nd, 2013
- Posted by EUEditor
The lone French yachtsman Alain Delord enjoyed a lamb shank and Australian claret on board the luxury cruise ship which plucked him out of the Southern Ocean early on Monday night, as it ferried him to a landing in Tasmania. … Read More »
- January 15th, 2013
- Posted by EUEditor
“Wotch out for the chunder from down under!â€, British tabloids are screaming *; more prosaic but also to the point is this warning from the Eurosurveillance public health service:
“Healthcare institutions are advised to be prepared for a severe norovirus season.†… Read More »