Last Top Stories: Lightning show Spirit in fighting victory

Lightning show Spirit in fighting victory

THEY swarmed, they hustled, they pestered and worked, mosquitoes on a mission ultimately rewarded Saturday with an all-the-way win over perennial power Bendigo. From their 8-0 start and 19-10 quarter-time lead, the Lightning were focused on burying ... >> view original

Bendigo players in Vic Country

BENDIGO dominates the Victoria Country squad that will contest next month's Under-19 National Cricket Championships in Adelaide. The Victoria Country Squad features four players who either started their careers or are still playing in Bendigo – Brayden ... >> view original

Derby Day 2015: Fashions, celebs and more | Photos

Weather · Your 4-day local weather forecast · Bendigo Advertiser. Sunday November 1, 2015. News · Local News. Larger / SmallerNight Mode. Derby Day 2015: Fashions, celebs and more | Photos. Oct. 31, 2015, 12:41 p.m.. Tweet. Print Story. VICTORIA: The ... >> view original

UN: Paris pledges keep 'door open' to limiting warming to 2 degrees

A report from the United Nations body that oversees climate change negotiations has found that the emission reduction pledges put forward for the next round of international climate treaty negotiations would “dramatically slow global emissions into the ... >> view original

A Swim With Humpback Whales in Australia? Coming up Soon

Sydney: Tourists will soon be able to swim with humpback whales of Australia in a trial program modelled on the successful whale shark tours at the country's Ningaloo Marine Park. Tourists can already swim with humpbacks off Mexico, Tonga and ... >> view original

Australian government puts Great Barrier Reef at risk

Sunday, November 1, 2015, 3:03 PM - The Australian government is under worldwide scrutiny after recently approving a controversial coal mine that might threaten the Great Barrier Reef. The Carmichael mine, set to be one of the world's largest coal ... >> view original

How climate change disproportionately affects women

In a few weeks' time, world leaders, policy-makers, scientists and lobbyists will converge on Paris for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, and hopefully agree to a universal and binding agreement on climate to serve as the successor to ... >> view original

Inching closer to 'Last Ocean' sanctuary

Creation of a vast marine sanctuary in Antarctica's “Last Ocean” inched closer at international talks recently as China for the first time backed the proposal, officials said, with Russia understood to be the last holdout. The Commission for the ... >> view original

Rare Omura's whales filmed for the first time

The first-ever field observations of Omura's whales, the world's rarest whales, have been made by an international team of scientists off the coast of Madagascar. The biologists, who published their research in the Royal Society Open Science journal, ... >> view original

CSIRO study erodes credibility of key carbon model

AUSTRALIA'S method of measuring how much carbon is being stored in its soil is flawed, undermining the credibility of government programs to pay farmers to sequester the climate change inducing element, a new study by CSIRO researchers has found. >> view original