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Pelley the photograph were about to show you says far more about the humanitarian crisis unfolding in europe than any words possibly could. That is the lifeless body of a threeyearold syrian boy in the hands of a Turkish Police officer. The boy drowned during a desperate voyage to a greek island. He was 100 of hundreds of thousands fleeing war and poverty in the middle east, africa and asia. Charlie dagata is covering the crisis. Reporter a threeyearold boy pulled lifeless from the sea. In another world, he might have been playing on this beach. But he and his fiveyearold brother were among 12...

New Curtin University research could change how space missions are conducted and lead to improvements in industries as diverse as environmental

When it comes to the ocean's response to global warming, we're not in entirely uncharted waters. A new study shows that episodes of extreme heat in Earth's past caused the exchange of waters from the surface to the deep ocean to decline.

A collection of fossilised bones more than 100 million years old found in Queensland belong to a previously...

Climate models are a key technology in predicting the impacts of climate change. By running simulations of the Earth's climate, scientists and policymakers can estimate conditions like sea level rise, flooding, and rising temperatures, and make decisions about how to appropriately respond. But current climate models struggle to provide this information quickly or affordably enough to be useful on smaller scales, such as the size of a city.