Look up! A once-in-a-lifetime explosion is about to create a ‘new’ star in the sky
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Devastating coral bleaching will be more common, start earlier and last longer unless we cut emissions
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Camille Mellin, University of Adelaide and… Read More
World Environment Day is on 5 June 2024 and a link to the website: World Environment Day Read More
Exercise, therapy and diet can all improve life during cancer treatment and boost survival. Here’s how
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Chemicals, forever: how do you fix a problem like PFAS?
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Sarah Wilson, University of Technology Sydney and Rachael Wakefield-Rann, University of… Read More
Earth Day 2024 website link: Earth Day - plasticsPlastics, particularly microplastics, have inflitrated much of the planet and its ecosystems. Once considered a wonder of industri… Read More
Australians at war (courtesy of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia)photo: the Australian Light Horse camp at Belah, Palestine, 1918Photo: an Australian Machine Gun Battalion, E… Read More
Think $5.50 is too much for a flat white? Actually it’s too cheap, and our world-famous cafes are paying the price
Emma Felton, University of South Australia
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Not such a bright idea: cooling the Earth by reflecting sunlight back to space is a dangerous distraction
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James Kerry, James Cook University; Aarti Gupta, Wageningen Un… Read More
Alexei Navalny had a vision of a democratic Russia. That terrified Vladimir Putin to the core
Robert Horvath, La Trobe University
Alexei Navalny was a giant figure in Russian politi… Read More
Atlantic Ocean is headed for a tipping point − once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme climate change within decades, study shows
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Australia Day is meant to provide a formal recognition of the existence of 'Australia' by commemorating the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 at Sydney Cove and the raising of the Union Jac… Read More
The emergence of JN.1 is an evolutionary ‘step change’ in the COVID pandemic. Why is this significant?
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A heatwave in Antarctica totally blew the minds of scientists. They set out to decipher it – and here are the results
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Will the world see more wars or unrest in 2024? Here are 5 hotspots to watch
Jessica Genauer, Flinders University
Sadly, 2023 has been a violent one on the global stage. War broke o… Read More
The next Council of the Parties (COP 28) for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will be held in the United Arab Emirates between 30 November and 12 December 2023. As t… Read More
Contamination of both the general environment and the human population from chemicals has long been a deep concern and for the most part, the issue has been one that can be controlled with t… Read More
The rise and fall of antibiotics. What would a post-antibiotic world look like?
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Allen Cheng, Monash University
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the bigg… Read More
Space is getting crowded with satellites and space junk. How do we avoid collisions?
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Sara Webb, Swinburne University of Technology; Brett Carter, RMIT University, an… Read More
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Where did the cars go? How heavier, costlier SUVs and utes took over Australia’s roads
Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National… Read More
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Could ‘marine cloud brightening’ reduce coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef?
Daniel Patrick Harrison, Southern Cross Univers… Read More
Is there really a 1 in 6 chance of human extinction this century?
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In 2020, Oxford-based philosopher Toby Ord published a book… Read More
Tropical forest - ShutterstockMost research and published articles on forests and global warming focus on the capacity for carbon sequestration as well as current retained levels of car… Read More
The new year beckons. 2023 will no doubt follow a similar pathway to the very difficult sequence of recent years since COVID-19 first appeared thereafter being followed by a serious military… Read More
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Permafrost melt lake - Above Arctic Circle, Canada - ShutterstockWhile much of the focus on limiting greenhouse gas emissions is rightly focussed on carbon dioxide, increasing attention is b… Read More
Seagrass - Mediterranean - Shutterstock Over the past decade increasing attention has been paid to the importance and value of ocean marine plants particularly seagrass meadows which fl… Read More
BOM/CSIRO (c)The latest State of the Climate Report for 2022 has been published by the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) continuing the unequivocal evidence of climate change and the… Read More
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In one day's time, the United Nations has forecast that the population of planet Earth will reach 8 billion people. This is a significant milestone but not one that automatically should soli… Read More
As the 27th Council of the Parties (COP27) of the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change") is well underway in Egypt, the warnings on the need for immediate action cou… Read More
Attila - Taras Berezhansky (c) Opera Australia Verdi's Attila is a lavish, large-scale production with strong elements of violence and war. Audiences will find its as m… Read More
Mark Rylance (right) in The Phantom of the OpenWithin any major film festival there is always a need for a light hearted absurdist film to be included in the screenings, more so when the sto… Read More
Fire of Love Documentary film maker, Sara Dosa, has compiled this portrait of the late vulcanologists, Katia and Maurice Krafft based on thousands of hours of spectacular 16mm footage t… Read More
Alexei Navalny with photos of his would-be assassinsDocumentary film maker Daniel Roher brings this very topical portrait of Russian Opposition Leader, Alexei Navalny, to the screen and intr… Read More
The Sydney Film Festival has returned in full for 2022 shaking off the effects of COVID-19 and being staged with 14 screens in multiple locations in Sydney including its main venue, th… Read More
Austin Butler as Elvis Presley in Elvis For any film director the prospect of creating a biopic around a cultural icon such as the late Elvis Presley is always a daunting and high risk… Read More
As at 23 May 2022 -Liberal National Party (L-NP): 53 seatsAustralian Labor Party (ALP): 73 seats (76 seats required to govern)Others including Independents: 15 seatsThe ALP is expected to wi… Read More
Journalist Laura Tingle by James PowditchAustralia's arguably most voyeuristic portrait prize exhibition is on display at the Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW). This year, 52 portraits were chosen… Read More
Aerial survey (c) Great Barrier Marine Park AuthorityThe lastest surveillance report on Australia's Great B… Read More
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Destroyed Russian armour, Bucha, 5 April 2022 ShutterstockThe poor performance of the Russian Armed Forces in the Ukrainian War has surprised military analysts, international commentat… Read More
The message for the environment continues to be urgent and critical. No matter how small.Earth Hour information and resources can be located at this hyperlink: Earth Hour 2022 Read More
As part of the Sixth Assessment Report, working group II of the IPCC published the 'report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability'. This specific paper contains a list of impact indicators… Read More
Vladimir Putin - Shutterstock Like an old-style Soviet autocrat, former KGB Lieutenant-Colonel and long serving president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin has initiated t… Read More
Russian light armoured vehicles - Belarus - ShutterstockWith the ongoing invasion of the Ukraine by Russia at the instigation of Russian President, Vladimir Putin, much public commentary has… Read More
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It's now two years since SARS-CoV-2 started its move across the world. From 2020, the Johns Hopkins Tracker has charted the data in terms of cases, mortality, jurisdiction and vaccinations… Read More
The Tasmanian salmon industry has long been promoted as ecological, natural, sustainable and providing healthy food consumption for humans. Author, Richard Flanagan comprehensively proves ot… Read More
Justin Chon - Blue BayouA child adopted by a American couple and seemingly a citizen of the country of adoption, the United States, discovers on reaching adulthood that is not the case and d… Read More
Milena Smit and Penelope Cruz - Parallel Mothers Acclaimed director, Pedro Almodovar wrote and directed this film which has an odd juxtaposition of a historical backstory and muddled co… Read More
As the final hours of negotiation for the COP26 final statement tick down, one of the surprising announcemenst of the past week was the Joint Declaration of the two major emitters and powers… Read More
The major political leaders have left COP26 and the nitty-gritty negotiations between officials has been progressing. But will there be enough action taken to prevent catastrophic temperatur… Read More
Paula Beer Undine Director and Screenwriter Christian Petzold has used the myth of the water sprite as the basis of the story for this film. Undine (Paula Beer) is a Berlin historian an… Read More
Leah Purcell The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly JohnsonWell known indigenous actor, Leah Purcell wrote, directed and acted in this period Australian Western genre film set in 1893 in the… Read More
Jasna Duricic and Johan Heldenbergh Quo Vadis Aida It's 26 years since the Bosnian war, yet for many people living in the former Yugoslavia, the impact of this conflict remains ever pre… Read More
Benedict Cumberbatch - The Power of the Dog Producer/Director/Screenwriter Jane Campion has returned to film making after a long absence with this dark Western period piece thriller set… Read More
After several false starts for 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Sydney Film Festival has managed to return to live screenings at multiple venues with strict COVID safe planning… Read More
The 6th Assessment Report from the IPCC makes for sobering reading and was issued prior to COP26 in Glasgow. In summary, the report has found that:Human induced climate change is… Read More
COP26 commences on 31 October 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland and concludes on Friday 12 November. But will it achieve the necessary agreement from all the members of the Conference of the Parties… Read More
In March this year, the Australian Academy of Science issued a stark warning on the future of this country if global warming is not actively slowed and ultimately stopped. The Academy's repo… Read More
The 26th Meeting of the UN Climate Change Council of the Parties (COP) Conference will be held in Glasgow, Scotland between the 31st October to the 12 November 2021. Co-hosted with Italy, th… Read More
2021 Winner: Guy Warren at 100 painted by Peter WegnerThe perennial public favourite in the visual arts, the Archibald Prize for portrait painting has opened at the Art Gallery Of NSW with t… Read More
