Premium Content Stay indoors. That was the advice issued by the Bureau of Meteorology at this time six years ago as Cyclone Marcia bore down. Take a trip down memory lane with these galleries from February 2015.
PHOTOS: High seas and strong winds lash Emu Park as Severe Tropical Cyclone Marcia bears down on the small Capricorn Coast township:
Vehicle: Ford SUV Persons: He allegedly assaulted the 73-year-old owner of the SUV, and later collided with a Hyundai hatchback on Beezley St. The SUV was driven toward the outskirts of Emerald where police successfully deployed a tyre deflation device. The man fled the damaged car before allegedly assaulting a 52-year-old man in an Isuzu ute nearby. Police intervened and the man fled on foot.
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Scientists Look to Soils to Learn How Forests Affect Air Quality and Climate Change Details
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Trees are often heralded as the heroes of environmental mitigation. They remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which slows the pace of climate change, and sequester nutrients such as nitrogen, which improves water and air quality.
Trees are often heralded as the heroes of environmental mitigation. They remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which slows the pace of climate change, and sequester nutrients such as nitrogen, which improves water and air quality. Not all tree species, however, perform these services similarly, and some of the strongest impacts that trees have on ecosystems occur below the surface, away from the eyes of observers. This complicates efforts to predict what will happen as tree species shift owing to pests, pathogens, and climate change as well as to predict which species are most beneficial in reforestation efforts.
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Rockhampton voters will be rich with choice come January 23.
To help electors organise their preferences, we asked mayor hopefuls for a brief outline of their ideas and policies regarding 10 topics of interest.
Over the coming days,
The Morning Bulletin will publish their answers.
Any excluded candidates did not respond in time for publication or chose not to comment on the issue at hand.
The third topic is the environment.
Russell Claus
– Establish communication forums with interested parties on different issues of environmental concern and establish an aggressive street tree planting program, focusing on overly wide streets and gateway streets (like Gladstone Road and Musgrave Street).
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Subscriber only She couldn t help herself - and she got caught. Her stupid blunder on November 6 when police saw her driving on Moores Creek Rd, Rockhampton, saw her hit with the mandatory minimum two-year licence disqualification in Yeppoon Magistrates Court last Thursday. It was there the 35-year-old pleaded guilty to disqualified driving. Acting Magistrate John Milburn fined Thompson $750 on top of the two-year driving disqualification. Â