The Watch and Act alert has been downgraded to an Advice due to rainfall over the fireground.Restricted Access Permits are still required for residents to enter the Tilden Park area.Road closures also remain for parts of the warning area.7:36pm - 6 Feb 2021 The Emergency Warning area has been downgraded to
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Ice losses from Antarctica have tripled since 2012, increasing global sea levels by 0.12 inch (3 millimeters) in that timeframe alone, according to a major new international climate assessment funded by NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). According to the study, ice losses from Antarctica are causing sea levels to rise
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Get ready now for thunderstorms in parts of the Midwest-Gascoyne, Goldfields-Midlands, Perth Metropolitan, Great Southern, South West, Lower South West If you live in Central West, Lower West, South West, South Coastal, Great Southernand parts of Central Wheat Belt districts. you need to get ready now for the thunderstorms coming tonight. This
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In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists have combined an array of satellite observations of Earth with data on human activities to map locations where freshwater is changing around the globe and to determine why. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, finds that Earth’s wet land areas are getting wetter and
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A pair of new spacecraft that will observe our planet’s ever-changing water cycle, ice sheets, and crust is in final preparations for a California launch no earlier than Saturday, May 19. The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission, a partnership between NASA and the German Research Centre for
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The State Government has provided in-principle backing for Western Australian pastoralists wanting to unlock the carbon potential of their lands. The Government will back a number of pilot sequestration offset projects by pastoralists, which focus on grazing strategies that increase regeneration of native vegetation and in the process extract carbon dioxide
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Disaster assistance has been made available for the local government areas of Broome, Derby-West Kimberley, Laverton and Wyndham-East Kimberley, which were affected by Tropical Cyclone Kelvin in February 2018. Assistance is being provided through the jointly-funded Commonwealth-State Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements (NDRRA). Minister for Law Enforcement and Cyber Security Angus
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Households across Perth are reminded to ensure their sprinklers are set to the correct days, after the top 10 suburbs receiving infringements in 2017 were revealed. Sprinkler rosters are in place across Perth, with scheme water users able to use sprinkler systems two days per week, either before 9am or after
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Energy Minister Ben Wyatt has formally opened the Emu Downs Solar Farm, 200 kilometres north of Perth. Synergy has entered into a power purchase agreement with the operator, APA, to buy electricity generated by the solar farm until 2030. The $50 million project consists of 75,168 solar panels on about 70 hectares,
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If you live in parts of the Goldfields and Eucla you should take action and stay safe with thunderstorms to come. Locations which may be affected include Kalgoorlie, Balladonia, Kambalda and Menzies. The overall weather pattern is not unusual for this time of year but severe weather may occur in some parts
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