Topic: Oceania
A second rare white kiwi has hatched at New Zealand's national wildlife centre, conservation officials announced Friday, months after the world's first hatched in captivity.The chick is believed to have the same parents as Manukura, which arrived in May, and it has ...
Africa, the birthplace of the human species, has long been a magnet for archaeologists. Now South Africa wants to draw leading astrophysicists to the continent as well with the world's most powerful radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), an instrument that ...
CARNARVON, South Africa (Reuters) - The occasional sheep seeks respite from a sun that has scorched rocks black in this semi-desert region that South Africa hopes will host the world's most powerful radio telescope.Chosen because of its remoteness, with hills providing an ...
South Africa is well-placed to host the world's largest telescope because the costs would be lower, according to the deputy science minister.South Africa is competing with Australia to win the contract for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a multi-billion dollar" class="inform">dollar instrument ...
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia moved to set up the world's biggest marine park on Friday to protect vast areas of the Coral Sea off the country's northeast coast and the site of fierce naval battles during World War Two.Environment Minister Tony Burke ...
Australian scientists exploring areas of the Indian Ocean said Thursday they had found sunken parts of the megacontinent Gondwana which could offer clues on how the current world was formed.The two "islands" were found on the remote sea floor in international waters ...
A massive dam in northern Australia was to begin draining this week following predictions that Brisbane, the nation's third-largest city, could be flooded again if heavy rains return.Queensland state government officials said the Wivenhoe Dam, near Brisbane, would undergo 12 days of ...
A human antibody has been shown to protect lab monkeys from a deadly bat-borne virus that has killed several people and dozens of horses since it was discovered in Australia in 1994, US scientists said Wednesday.The latest outbreak of Hendra virus has ...
PMI's Obotan bodes well for AGG, XTG, KGN Resource investors do see things in this mediocre metals equities market. But those things have to be big. PMI Gold’s rip higher Friday, and overnight in Australia, came after the Ghana prospector nearly tripled ...
CANBERRA (Reuters) - After 15 years living in far-off Australia, American-born Brian Schmidt thought the phone call informing him he had jointly won the Nobel Prize for Physics was a student prank, coming in the dead of the night from a woman ...
