Dick's Blog

At 12.51 local time on February 22nd, a powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.3 occurred only 10km from Christchurch in New Zealand. What has m...

Above - the official Apollo 17 insignia (Image courtesy of NASA - click to enlarge) "The world, after all our science and sciences, is...

The first ever image of the Earth taken from space by TIROS 1, on April 1st 1960. (Image courtesy of NASA - click to enlarge) “We set sail o...

Weather forecasting has improved steadily over the last thirty years or so, and there are probably three main reasons for this. Firstly we h...

Severe tropical cyclone "Yasi" smashed across the north Queensland coast near Mission Beach, just to the south of Innisfail, arou...

One of the most remarkable weapons of the Second World War was the so-called Japanese balloon bomb or “Fu Go” that was an early example of u...

The recent disastrous flooding in Queensland is closely connected with the La Nina phenomena, when waters across the central and eastern equ...