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CSIRO forecasts 50-year trend of decreasing rainfall over southern Australia to continue for another 50 years

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Decreasing autumn and winter rainfall over southern Australia has been attributed to a 50-year decrease in the average intensity of storms in the region—a trend which is forecast to continue for another 50 years, according to The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency.

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How Eddie Custovic Is Building His Legacy

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The IEEE senior member established an innovation lab for budding entrepreneurs at La Trobe University , in Melbourne, Australia, where he is an engineering professor. And if that isn’t enough, he is working to combat impending food shortages by developing imaging technology to determine how to grow plants in inhabitable environments.

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Video Friday: The Coolest Robots

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Deep Robotics ] Estimating terrain traversability in off-road environments requires reasoning about complex interaction dynamics between the robot and these terrains. This work will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ( ICRA 2023 ) in London next week. Lite3’s announced price is US $2,900.

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Boeing, Canadian aviation industry launch sustainable aviation biofuel project using forestry waste

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This project, announced during the 2015 Canadian Bioeconomy Conference in Vancouver, was recently awarded funding by the Green Aviation Research and Development Network (GARDN) of Canada as part of a portfolio of investments in technologies to reduce aviation’s carbon emissions.

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Hadley Centre: Average 4 C Warming Could Happen Within a Human Lifetime, With Even Greater Warming in Many Regions

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Dr Richard Betts, Head of Climate Impacts at the UK Met Office Hadley Centre, presented the findings at a special conference called “ 4 degrees and beyond ” at Oxford University. Regional case studies will include Amazonia; Australia; Bangladesh; Brazil; Ethiopia; Finland; Mauritius; Siberia; Vietnam; and the monsoon region.

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Exploring Sydney’s Deep Tech Ecosystem

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The power of deep tech The tech industry in Australia is a powerhouse, employing one in 16 Australians and ranking as the country’s third-largest industry. For more information on Sydney’s Tech Industry and hosting your next conference in Sydney, visit besydney.com.au. In 2021, it accounted for 8.5

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Group of 285 global investors with more than $20T in assets under management calls for urgent action on investment-grade climate change and energy policies; guidelines for governments

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Investor Group on Climate Change Australia/New Zealand ( IGCC ). United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative ( UNEP FI ) is a global partnership between the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the global financial sector.