Climate change could cause 500000 extra deaths in 2050
New research suggests climate change could kill more than 500,000 adults worldwide in 2050, due to changes in diets and bodyweight resulting from reduced crop production. The study, published today in The Lancet, is the first of its kind to model and assess the impact of climate change on diet composition and bodyweight. The results include detailed estimates for additional deaths in 155 countries in 2050, and present strong evidence that climate change could have damaging consequences for foo..>> view originalTelstra outage affected 490000 pre-paid customers
The second outage in three weeks left some pre-paid customers without access to voice or data yesterday. Telstra admits that the network shutdown ‘probably affected 490,000 customers’ and voice services were restored by 0900 AEST and data by 1000 – about an hour later. As usual people took to the Twittersphere to vent spleen – unless of course you could not. Many tweets were about the lack of information on the Telstra outage, and many referred to Telstra’s admission of its ‘embarrassing fail..>> view originalAncient monster volcano's eruption tilted Mars: study
PARIS – A volcano on Mars half the size of France spewed so much lava 3.5 billion years ago that the weight displaced the red planet’s outer layers, according to a study released Wednesday. Mars’ original north and south poles, in other words, are no longer where they once were. The findings explain the unexpected location of dry river beds and underground reservoirs of water ice, as well as other Martian mysteries that have long perplexed scientists, the lead researcher told AFP. “If a simila..>> view originalRecord season for captive-bred weedy sea dragons
Senior assistant aquarist Simon Claridge gets a close-up look at the juvenile weedy sea dragons. Photo: Jason South In the watery world of the weedy sea dragon, it's the males who carry the young before they hatch.For up to two months, Dad incubates the eggs on the underside of his tail. Not one or two eggs, mind. Rather, dozens gather together like tightly packed pomegranate seeds.For weeks, staff at the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium watched as their wild male..>> view originalLabor jumps on another NBN leak
Labor jumps on another NBN leakThe company building the national broadband network has had a secret pilot program for low-cost fibre-to-the premises technology, leaked internal documents reveal.NBN Co's trial of the technology could cut per-premises construction costs from $1200 to $600, Fairfax Media reports."Another day, another leak ... this is an extraordinarily damaging leak for Malcolm Turnbull," Labor's communication spokesman Jason Clare told reporters in Canberra on Thursday.The documen..>> view originalTelcos face challenge of networked devices
The FBI faces up to reality – it's just not as sexy as on TV
"Sometimes we're not as attractive or technologically talented as we appear on TV," said the FBI's Jim Comey in a reference to show such as The X-Files, starring Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully and David Duchovny as Fox Mulder. by Elias Groll With Apple and the FBI locked in a legal battle over accessing the iPhone of a San Bernardino shooter, some critics of the bureau have wondered why it has gone to court at all. Couldn'..>> view originalAt 440 million years old, this fungus is the earliest land-based life ever found
Researchers in the UK have announced the discovery of a 440-million-year-old fungus fossil that was likely one of the first organisms to ever dwell on land, and might have kick-started the process of rot, which transformed the landscape to support more complex life. Though you have probably never sat down and thought about rot because, well, gross, it’s a vitally important process for life on our planet. We owe our ability to live to this process. Now, a team from the University of Cambridge b..>> view original
Thursday, March 3, 2016
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