TAS: Miracle of new life on remote Heard Island

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: March 29, 2001 | Copyright information


AAP General News (Australia)

03-29-2001

TAS: Miracle of new life on remote Heard Island

By Don Woolford

HOBART, March 29 AAP - A tiny rise in sea temperature has produced an extraordinary
explosion of animal and plant life on Australia's sub-Antarctic Heard Island.

Probably nowhere else in the world can the effects of warming be seen so dramatically,
according to Australian scientists who returned from the island today.

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