This is followed by an expedition of about 12 months. Staff are employed as meteorologists and technical officers. Our roles support the scientific work of the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD).

But, will any smart scale do the trick? Technically yes, but ultimately no. During our testing we found a number of manufacturers who might as well have just slapped "smart" on the boxes of their ...

Try these speed reading exercises to improve reading. You can also learn something about the news. There are reading texts at different levels. You can choose the reading speed of each text. If one ...

Try these discussions to improve your speaking and listening. There are 20 questions in each activity - 10 for Student A and 10 for Student B. You can print out the worksheet. You can listen to the ...

The Ecocast industrial scale worm farm on the outskirts of Kawerau has been the subject of odour complaints and is seeking to expand its operation. Beacon file photo A submissions hearing has been ...

Where no observation is available within the last 75 minutes, the latest observation is shown in italics and coloured and removed from the table after 30 hours. Station names link to data for the ...

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