The decision was made by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority even though some scientists had urged it not to back the project, saying the sediment could smother or poison coral.
Saturday, 29 November 2014
Introduction to cascading style sheet
Introduction to CASCADING STYLE SHEET :- This it give you as learner an opportunity to learn a basic syntax of cascading style in web design.
Sunday, 2 November 2014
Researchers Analyzed Sexual Fantasies: Only Two Found To Be Rare, Nine Found To Be Unusual.
Researchers Analyzed Sexual Fantasies: Only Two Found To Be Rare, Nine Found To Be Unusual
Researchers affiliated with the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières and institutes affiliated with the University of Montreal surveyed over 1,500 adults of both sexes to analyze and compare sexual fantasies that are often considered unusual, to see how unusual they actually are. According to Medical News Today, the secondary aim of the research was to compare the differences between sexual fantasies in men and women statistically.
Saturday, 9 August 2014
Can lung cancer be found early?
Can lung cancer be found early?
Lets starts with few introduction.
Lung Cancer: Cancer of the lung, like all cancers, results from an abnormality in the body's basic unit of life, the cell. Normally, the body maintains a system of checks and balances on cell growth so that cells divide to produce new cells only when new cells are needed. Disruption of this system of checks and balances on cell growth results in an uncontrolled division and proliferation of cells that eventually forms a mass known as a tumor.
Thursday, 31 July 2014
Call for 'radical action' on drug-resistant malaria
Call for 'radical action' on drug-resistant malaria
Malaria-infected red blood cells
Drug-resistant malaria is spreading in South East Asia, and has now reached the Cambodia-Thailand border, according to a study.
"Radical action" is needed to prevent further spread of malaria parasites resistant to key drugs, say scientists.
The spread could undermine recent gains in malaria control, they report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
'Pea-sized brain hub could shed light on depression'
'Pea-sized brain hub could shed light on depression'
The habenula may help in risky circumstances such as weighing up whether to go down a dark alley
Scientists say a part of the brain, smaller than a pea, triggers the instinctive feeling that something bad is about to happen.
Australia approves $15.5bn coal and rail project
Australia approves $15.5bn coal and rail project
critics fear the mine project will have an indirect impact on the Great Barrier Reef
Australia has approved a $15.5bn (£9bn) coal project, despite concern over its potential environmental impact.
The Carmichael project in Queensland would include one of the world's biggest coal mines and a new railway.
It would be overseen by the Indian mining company Adani, which has already won approval to build a new coal port terminal at Abbott Point in Queensland.
But critics have voiced concern over local water use and possible indirect impact on the Great Barrier Reef.
The decision to approve the Carmichael project, which will dig up and transport about 60m tonnes of coal a year for export, mostly to India, was announced on Monday.
Adani is yet to make a final commitment to the project, which would be biggest coal mine ever proposed for Australia.
Environmental impacts
Situated in the Galilee Basin in the central Queensland region, the Carmichael project would include open cut and underground mines.
Coal would be taken from the new mines by rail to Abbott Point coal port north of Bowen.
There are concerns that the mine, which will require some 12 billion litres of water every year, would drain groundwater supplies in the Galilee Basin.
But Australia's Environment Minister Greg Hunt said the approval had been tied to 36 "strict" conditions focused on conserving groundwater.
Separately, environmentalists are also concerned about extensions to the deepwater port at Abbott Point, where Adani already has approval to build a coal export terminal.
In January, Australian authorities approved the dumping of dredged sediment in the Great Barrier Reef marine park as part of an Abbott Point coal port extension project.
The extension will see Abbott Point become one of the world's biggest coal ports.
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Violence keeps crews from MH17 crash site
Violence keeps crews from MH17 crash site
An armed pro-Russian separatist is seen at the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crash site near the village of Hrabove, in Ukraine's Donetsk region.
Kiev - Fighting between Kiev forces and pro-Russian separatists on Tuesday prevented international investigators reaching the MH17 crash site in Ukraine for the third day running, the Dutch justice ministry said.
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