The warming effect of human-induced greenhouse gases is a given, but to what extent can we predict its future influence? That is an issue on which science is making progress, but the answers are still far from exact, say researchers from ...
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic modules First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has begun construction of Australia’s largest utility-scale solar project, a 250 hectare solar plant in Nyngan, New South Wales (NSW). Less ...
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Australia's mid-market businesses are experiencing a sharp increase in confidence and renewed optimism around future performance, according to the Commonwealth Bank Future Business Index. The index reveals confidence reached the highest ...
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Global well-being improvement leader Healthways (NASDAQ: HWAY) announced today that it has been awarded a contract to provide Australia's largest health coaching program, Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service® (Get Healthy ...
New South Wales-based dairy company Bega Cheese Limited (Bega) has announced its intention to sell its 18.8 per cent shareholding in Warrnambool Cheese and Butter (WCB) to Canadian dairy company Saputo. The move makes a Saputo takeover of ...
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Toyota Material Handling Australia (TMHA) says it has retained overall national forklift market leadership for the fifth consecutive year. It extended its uninterrupted dominance of the internal-combustion counter-balance forklift market ...
Research involving rats suggests that there is a biological link between paternal diet, bodyweight and health at the time of conception and the health of his offspring. In a new research report published online in The FASEB Journal, ...
They said the party was over, but Australia's giant resources sector is surging into a two-horse race between iron ore and coal, with the latest numbers revealing that there is still fire in the belly of the boom, thanks mainly to sustained ...
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With a strong transport focus, the 3rd annual GeoNext Conference is on again, and features a line-up of presenters covering key areas relevant to the transport and logistics community. Among the topics highlighted will be mapping assets, ...
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The International Collating Center, Newmarket, England, and other sources reported the following equine disease outbreaks for the third quarter* of 2013. Contagious equine metritis (Taylorella equigenitalis) was reported from Germany in ...
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Blue Moon is one of CCA's new-to-Australia beers Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) has announced its return to the Australian beer and cider market, with the launch of international and local premium beers and cider — almost all of them new to ...
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Plan now to attend one of these sites for a day packed with information you can put into practice. From resistance management to financial management to precision agriculture, the 2014 UNL Extension Crop Production Clinics will cover ...
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Coal exports from the Port Waratah Coal Services (PWCS) terminals based at Port of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia, totaled 9.50 million mt in December last year, increasing by 24.49 percent compared to November, according to the ...
To the eyes of those driving on Sydney’s upper north shore, the dark blue Hyundai Elantra with the number plates BU-31-YC appears just like any other cookie-cutter small sedan doing the suburban rounds. This middle-grade Hyundai ...
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Global average temperatures will rise at least 4°C by 2100 and potentially more than 8°C by 2200 if carbon dioxide emissions are not reduced according to new research published in Nature. Scientists found global climate is more ...
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