This week, a committee of six scientists (including Dr Enzo Boschi, formerly president of Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology) and one government official, whose role was to advise…
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Exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke nearly doubles the risk of hearing loss in teenagers, according to US university researchers…
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake felt in Melbourne on Tuesday morning is the third largest in a series of 300 quakes that have been gently shaking regional Victoria since January 2009, a seismologist said. The…
Western Victoria and South Australia are overdue for a volcanic eruption, according to researchers from the University of…
The magnitude 9 earthquake that occurred in Japan in March this year caused a 400km long land rupture, releasing centuries of pent up energy caused by two tectonic plates pushing slowly against each other…
Paleontologists think it had the snout of a crocodile, the claws of a bear and a taste for seafood. But what’s most interesting about the discovery of Australia’s first fish-eating dinosaur is its similarities…
Death threats against climate scientists may make researchers reluctant to engage in public debate or even turn research students off the study of climate change altogether, the head of the government…
Governments and communities must take urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions this decade or face enormous social and economic costs in future, according a report by the Australian government’s…
The ash plume produced by the eruption of Iceland’s Grimsvotn volcano has begun to shrink but several European airlines have cancelled flights as a precaution. The Icelandic Meteorological Agency said…
A paper casting doubt on a widely used method of calculating extinction rates has fuelled furious debate in scientific circles, with some arguing it ignores important evidence and others saying it has…
Samoa’s prime minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi has announced plans to shift the International Date Line to the east – a move that will see the Pacific nation divided from its near neighbour, American…
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Associate Professor of Earthquake Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Earth Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Emeritus Professor of Mineral Physics, University of Cambridge
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Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, Wesleyan University
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
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