Invercargill and Dunedin have been closed by floods once a decade or so.
Graeme 1.1.1
Large parts of Dunedin are below mean sea level, some around a metre. Invercargill is just above, but close enough that a flood combined with a high tide makes things pretty wet. Both suffer from being built on very weak ground, especially Invercargill, so both are never going to be more than they are now and unlikely to get much future investment.
It s not only airports that are at risk from sea level rise. The State Highway and railway going past Dunedin Airport are only slightly higher and just as at risk in many other places.
Written By: weka - Date published: 6:06 am, January 23rd, 2021 - 38 comments
When the government proposed declaring a climate emergency in December last year, Jacinda Ardern said this,
This declaration is an acknowledgment of the next generation: an acknowledgment of the burden that they will carry if we do not get this right and if we do not take action now. When I visit schools, when I read children’s letters, I’m often struck by how deeply personal the climate crisis is to them. We cannot underestimate a generation, full of angst and anxiety over the reality of climate change for them and their generation. And it is up to us to make sure that we demonstrate there is a pathway, there is a plan for action, and there is a reason for hope. For them, it is instinctual. It is tangible. It is real. It is about the country they will inherit and it’s about the burden of debt they will inherit unless we make s
Download 4.85 MB
Most Australians have a story about being horribly sunburnt, and while we have improved when it comes to slip, slop, slapping, there are still some myths about it. What are they? Helen Shield spoke to Louise Baldwin, a senior research fellow at the Faculty of Health at the Queensland University of Technology about the myths, and how we can be smarter in the sun.
Duration: 10min 36sec
January 23, 2021
Payal Dhar
THE WASHINGTON POST – Social distancing and travel are two things, much like Kipling’s East and West, that you would imagine would never meet. Then the coronavirus made it clear that the tourism industry needed strategies to survive beyond the pandemic. Thus, we can now wander virtual galleries and museums, take off on digital safaris, and experience remote guided tours. Even university researchers have been taking an interest in the matter – consider this Cornell University project to re-sample photos of renowned landmarks into 4-D glory.
But there is another way to be transported to new worlds and challenged in mind and, sometimes, body. We are talking about gaming.