Cycle of gloom over manpower.

Australian fears over climate change gloom

Australia's previous government was one of the most 'climate change sceptic' of any nations. The new government has 'greener' credentials, but it has already been hit with alarming projections. The country, which has been hit by increasing droughts in recent years, could be facing much worse. A new report by Australia's leading scientists predicts that the country may be hit by a tenfold increa...

Primate gloom

The first comprehensive review in five years of the world's more than 600 species of primate found that almost 50 per cent are in danger of becoming extinct, according to the criteria of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Announced at the International Primatology Congress in Edinburgh earlier this month, the report by the world's leading p...

Cosmology , Doom , and Gloom

Profit of gloom

The proposals have also drawn anger from the energy industry. Kathleen Sgamma, a director of the Western Energy Alliance, which represents 400 oil and natural-gas companies, said the new policy could block some promising lands from drilling. “They’re treating lands arbitrarily as de facto wildernesses,” she said. And Dean Heller, a Republican representative from Nevada, said: “The message of th...

Australia's bushfire gloom

After ten consecutive years of drought, the last three severe and this current summer breaking almost all records for high temperatures and low rainfall, Australia is suffering bushfires of unprecedented intensity. A fire danger rating of 50 is extreme, 100 uncontrollable: the fire danger rating on February 6 was 180, and some reports have it as high as 400 on the next day, which is being calle...