A Healthy Partnership in the Pilbara

It has been a united effort from the Western Australian Government and BHP Billiton who have pooled in nearly $7 million to improve health services //in the Pilbara, spread over a six year time frame. This coalition will seek to institute a post-natal depression support service in Newman. The...

Cyclone Glenda brings Threat of Fatal Mosquito–borne Diseas

...rtment of Health has warned people living and traveling in the Kimberley or pilbara to take precautions to avoid mosquito bites. The potentially fatal Murray Valley encephalitis virus has been detected in the pilbara region although there have been no confirmed cases of people contracting th...

Children’s Health Improves By Swimmin

...pared with the non-swimmers. // Researches conducted over six years at the Jigalong, Burringurrah and Mugarinya communities in western Australia's pilbara region examined the impact on children's health where swimming pools were installed, reported ABC News online. The Institute for Child Health Rese...

Pilbara in Biological News

Deep-sea rocks point to early oxygen on Earth

... we wanted to drill deeper, below the water table and recover unweathered rocks." The researchers drilled diagonally into the base of a hill in the pilbara Craton in northwest Western Australia to obtain samples of jasper that could not have been exposed to the atmosphere or water. These jaspers could be ...

Complex systems and Mars missions help understand how life began

...rs, a geoscientist from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. These are at pilbara in Australia and Kaapvaal in South Africa. The pillow basalts at pilbara provide strong evidence that there was liquid water on Earth at that time, ...

October Geology and GSA Today media highlights

...e the problem from a new angle by using silicon isotopes to unravel their origin. Their data from 3.5- to 3.0-billion-year-old chert deposits from the pilbara Craton (Western Australia) demonstrate that silicon isotopes (together with other geological and geochemical data) are diagnostic for the origin of ch...