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A peptide from an Australian funnel-web spider has been found to kill both human melanoma cells and cancerous Tasmania devil facial tumours that are threatening the survival of the species


'We've got a moat': Tasmania cuts itself off from Australia -- after Saturday anyone who enters, even from elsewhere in the country, will have to spend 14 days in isolation.



A peptide from an Australian funnel-web spider has been found to kill both human melanoma cells and cancerous Tasmania devil facial tumours that are threatening the survival of the species

TIL The Black War was a period of violent conflict between British colonists and Aboriginal Australians in Tasmania from the 1820s to 1832. A bounty of ₤5 was paid for every captured Aboriginal and ₤2 per child. Historians debate whether the war should be defined as an act of genocide.


A bar-tailed Godwit recently flew 8,435 miles (13560 Km) non-stop from Alaska to Tasmania. The 11-day journey without rest or food was tracked by a satellite tag (234684). As per Guinness World Records, this bird flying nonstop, broke the earlier record for the longest non-stop migration of a bird!
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A bar-tailed Godwit recently flew 8,435 miles (13560 Km) non-stop from Alaska to Tasmania. The 11-day journey without rest or food was tracked by a satellite tag (234684). As per Guinness World Records, this bird flying nonstop, broke the earlier record for the longest non-stop migration of a bird!
r/Awwducational - A bar-tailed Godwit recently flew 8,435 miles (13560 Km) non-stop from Alaska to Tasmania. The 11-day journey without rest or food was tracked by a satellite tag (234684). As per Guinness World Records, this bird flying nonstop, broke the earlier record for the longest non-stop…




Australia's mean monthly temp exceeds 30C° for the first time. QLD sees record flooding after severe drought - 500,000+ livestock dead. Tasmania endures horrible bushfires, but now areas see snow. Millions of fish die in the Murray Darling. These are ecological disasters - so what's being done?
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Australia's mean monthly temp exceeds 30C° for the first time. QLD sees record flooding after severe drought - 500,000+ livestock dead. Tasmania endures horrible bushfires, but now areas see snow. Millions of fish die in the Murray Darling. These are ecological disasters - so what's being done?

Some might argue that not all of these issues are directly a result of human activity - we've had droughts and floods before. Australia is a vast nation with varying climates, after all. But the sheer erraticism and extreme nature of these events make brushing them off as "normal weather patterns" a shitty combination of willfully stupid and incredibly dangerous.

Snow isn't uncommon in Tasmania, but right after mid-summer bushfires?

Flooding isn't uncommon in the tropical Queensland regions, but 3 years of rain in one week, right after a prolonged period of severe drought?

Hot summers are part of the national identity, but the hottest January and December in recorded history?

January has broken temperature records year after year in the last decade, but breaking the highest minimum, maximum and mean temperature - which for the first time exceeded 30C° - in one hit?

It's expected to be hotter up north, but hot enough that several towns in Queensland experiencing over 25 days above 40C during summer, with a record of 43 days in Cloncurry?

Fish die-offs do happen sometimes, but 3 separate events in the same basin with near millions dead each time?

Maybe some of these events are "expected", but all of them in a span of two months?

None of this should be normal, but get used to it - that's what it's becoming.

The bar of acceptable response for our politicians should not be belief - it should be unwavering passion. This is only going to get worse. The droughts are only going to get longer and drier. The fire conditions are only going to spread further and more dangerously across the country. Extreme rains, monsoons and flooding will only be one more common as the overall climate continues to warm.

Our politicians need to do more obviously, which won't happen while the man who proudly brought a lump of coal into the house of reps is PM. It is terrible that this enormous issue has become a political one, but it has - so do not forget to vote with these issues in mind in the upcoming election. At a personal level, remember to also do your part where you can. This is the only planet we have.

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/a-worrying-signal-it-s-hotu-and-only-going-to-get-hotter-20190207-p50wbw.html

What will this situation look like in 50 years? What can we do about this? What action can we take, what policies do we need? Why are these issues not seen as ecological disasters? Why aren't they international news?

Edit:

[Serious decline in insect numbers too.] (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-24/decline-in-insect-population-baffles-scientists/9481136)

[Serious decline in bird numbers in Victoria.] (https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59374e666a4963c6df22569f/t/5ba1b9906d2a7341c4228a89/1537325459629/Attach.+11+Mac+Nally+et+al_A+decade+of+decline_Diversity+and+Distributions.pdf)

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