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Construction begins on Australias third air warfare destroyer
2015-11-23 01:00:00| Naval Technology
The construction on the Royal Australian Navy's (RAN) third air warfare destroyer, the future HMS Sydney, has started with the keel laying ceremony, marking significant progress on the Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) programme.
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Climate Change Boosted Australia's 2010 Floods
2015-11-21 15:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: For the first time, researchers have linked the catastrophic floods in Australia in the summer of 2010 with global warming. And they warn that the double hazard of long-term ocean warming and rising atmospheric temperatures makes the risk of extreme rainfall greater in years to come. In 2010, during a natural cyclic Pacific phenomenon called La Nia, sea surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific were high, and the air became saturated with moisture. When the clouds billowed...
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Are Australias bushfire seasons getting longer?
2015-11-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Increasingly long fire seasons will require more firefighters and could place greater demands on firefighting equipment shared between countries, according to a report from the Climate Council. The report is a review of recent research into climate change and weather associated with bushfires. One key study cited is a 2015 paper which found that the length of fire seasons has increased by 18.7% globally from 1979 to 2013. The same study found a general increase in fire season length for all...
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Australia's bush fire preparedness under threat as climate change kicks in
2015-11-18 14:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Australia risks being under-prepared for longer, drier and more severe bushfire seasons, a report from the Climate Council says. The national report found that record-breaking temperatures and hot winds will place unprecedented strain on firefighting resources, estimating that the number of professional firefighters across Australia will need to double by 2030. Australia's bushfire season got off to an early start, when more than 200 fires burned across Victoria in the first week of October,...
Malaysian firm Hibiscus Petroleum to acquire Australias Hydra Energy
2015-11-12 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Malaysian oil exploration company Hibiscus Petroleum has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the outstanding shares of Australia-based Hydra Energy.
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