In Pure Spirit

This video shows how extreme winds that have been battering Australia has started to cause waterfalls to spew their charge backwards and up into the air rather than forwards and downwards off the cliff face. The video went live on the 20th of July 2011 in a week where nearly a month of rain had [...]

This video is an advert for a sky diving centre in Melbourne Australia. One of the last things I noticed in the video was that this was for an Australian company – up there, in the sky, the concepts of countries seem far less important. Even big ol’ Australia. Instead we’ve the sky and the [...]

Without a doubt there are many people who’ll always say “Creepy!” when presented with a spider. There will also be those people who run away in fear. Nevertheless there are some people out there who rather like spiders. Let’s introduce the peacock spider. It’s very small and likes to jump around. Jurgen Otto may have [...]

At 8:30pm on March 26th we’re turning out lights off for Earth Hour. This isn’t the first time the globe has had an Earth Hour. You should know about it by now. But what if you don’t know about it? What if you’re the only one who doesn’t turn the lights off at 8:30 in [...]

Image via Wikipedia In the Northern Territory, Australia, David Laurin has been sentenced to three years for burning a woman’s house down. Laurin, 31, pleaded guilty to the charges as the court heard he believed the woman was a witch who had cursed his sex life. In the NT Supreme Court, Chief Justice Dean Mildren [...]

The Australian town of Bundanoon has raised the bar of ecological wisdom by voting to ban bottled water. Why? A tremendous amount of resources goes into bottled water; there’s the extraction, the packaging and then the transport. In many cases there’s the litter afterwards too.

In many countries the health quality standards of tap water are stricter than bottled water ones. For example, in the UK the quality of water form the tap is held to a higher standard than from the bottle. The reason is simple; problems with the mains supply are a horror to fix, effect thousands of people and are best detected and prevented early. Bottled water is easier to deal with.

Bundanoon is a small town with less than 2,500 in population but perhaps this is the starting moving in a more popular trend.

Some scientists believe that the wild Tasmanian Devil cannot be saved. One high risk strategy may be to let the wild devils die out which would provide a chance to re-populate the island with disease free devils currently in captivity.

The Tasmanian Devil suffers from an unique extinction threat. The population is being wiped out by a contagious cancer – one that’s spread by biting.

Australian wine producer Banrock Station is upping their green effort. The company has introduced a series of wine labels that encourage “Supporting Global Conservation”.

Banrock Station’s website makes similar efforts. The company is based in a large building by the Murry River in South Australia and have been there since 1994. Improvements have been made to the wetland centre in that time; with solar power, renewable materials and a minimal environmental footprint acting as something of a tourist attraction while allowing native birds to continue to roost there.

Image by Beppie K via Flickr It was dark and there was neither life nor death. In the beginning the earth was a bare plain. Underneath the plain slept the eternal ancestors, the sun, the moon and the stars. Eventually the eternal ancestors arose an in the Dreamtime they walked the earth. The enternal ancestors [...]

In this article we look at ten animals that have the word ‘ghost’ in their name. The world of the paranormal does have its influence on science and biology after all. 1 ) The Ghost Spider The ghost spider (anyphaene californica) is a tiny, translucent arachnid that lives in the southern parts of the United [...]