WWF buys $100000 shark fishing licence to stop someone else from using it and other top stories.

• WWF buys $100000 shark fishing licence to stop someone else from using it

  

  Conservation group WWF Australia has purchased a commercial shark fishing licence on the Great Barrier Reef, with the sole aim of removing it from circulation. The Great Barrier Reef has been in the news a lot lately, with 93 percent of the reef bleached earlier this year, hordes of Crown of Thorns starfish still causing damage, and plans to dredge the sea floor in a number of areas. But at least fishing is banned in the area… unless you spend enough money on a special licence, that is.  The AU..

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• Astronomers Just Spotted A Water Snow Line Around A Star For The First Time

  

  Astronomers Just Spotted A Water Snow Line Around A Star For The First Time A telescope just snagged the very first image of a water snow line drifting around a young star in space — and it could transform what we know about how planets form. Artist’s conception of a water snow line around a young star (Image: A. Angelich (NRAO/AUI/NSF)/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)) The extreme conditions around young stars sometimes means that water goes directly from gas into snow and ice, skipping the liquid phase..

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• How to get rid of flying foxes? Organise a tourist event

  FLYING foxes appear to have once again outsmarted humans, this time moving a roost just as a group of tourists paid money to view it. The Sunshine Coast Council has been forced to cancel a sunset cruise to watch a flying fox colony fly out on Goat Island on the Maroochy River. The cruise, planned for Thursday night, July 14, was organised to give people a chance to watch the spectacle of thousands of flying foxes soaring in the sky. The spectacle is a nightmare for many residents on ..

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• Arborist called in to help fast-track habitat renewal for superb parrot in central-west NSW

  

  Arborist called in to help fast-track habitat renewal for superb parrot in central-west NSW Posted July 14, 2016 09:45:04 Authorities in New South Wales are ramping up efforts to protect a threatened bird species after concerns it could lose much of its habitat from climate change.Central Tablelands Local Land Services has partnered with the Central West Environment and Waterways Alliance to engage an arborist to artificially create about 200 hollows in standing trees..

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• China's descending space module may not be out of control after all

  

  Hi, everybody: Please chill out. While some overblown headlines may lead you to believe that China's space station module — which played host to Chinese astronauts in the past — is on an imminent, possibly dangerous crash course with Earth, that's not the full story. It's true that eventually China's Tiangong-1 — which translates to "heavenly palace" in English —  will eventually come back through Earth's atmosphere, but that breakup isn't necessarily happening in the next few weeks, and even i..

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• Was A Supernova Responsible For A Mass Extinction On Earth?

  

  Is it possible for a supernova explosion hundreds of light-years away to cause mass extinctions on our planet? This may well be the case, as a new study suggests this is what happened roughly 2.59 million years ago, says Tech Times. One of these explosions may have been a contributor to a minor mass extinction. It sent out high velocity charged particles called cosmic rays that were quite possibly responsible for the die-out at the end of the Pliocene era, say researchers. Supernova explosion [..

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