Argleton: the phantom town that Google created
Neither Google, nor the company that supplies its mapping data for this part of Britain, were able to explain how the phantom town made its way on to Google Maps, The Telegraph said.
“This study has important implications for estimates of the total biodiversity of free-living micro-organisms,” says Thierry Heger of the Swiss Federal Research Institute in Lausanne, Switzerland. The fact that microbes can travel huge distances makes it less likely that there are large numbers of endemic species, Heger says.
Drought beats cotton giant Cubbie
Cubbie Station sits on the upper reaches of the mighty Murray-Darling river system, and its water storage capacity is equal to that of Sydney Harbour.
Scientists estimate there are anywhere between 50 million and 120 million red crabs on the island. And every year they make their pilgrimage towards the ocean to breed. It is while they make these journeys that the crabs suffer casualties. Mr Orchard estimates the red crab road toll is over 500,000 every migration season.





