The Stars My Destination
By Luke Davies
Yet viewed on even larger scales, the sense of our tenure here can become positively claustrophobic. There’s really nowhere to go when you step out the door, and in any case, you’re not getting off the property any time soon. Voyager 1, the fastest man-made object in existence – coasting now at the far edges of our solar system at 61,000 kilometres per hour – will finally reach a dist
JEN Veron’s ‘A Reef in Time’
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By Julian Cribb
Five times in the history of life on Earth, the corals have perished. Each time they have taken millions of years to return or evolve anew. The eminent Australian marine scientist Dr JEN ‘Charlie' Veron argues that we are now on the brink of a sixth mass extinction - and that we will be the killers of the largest living organism on the planet, the Great Barrier Reef.In A Reef In Time: The G