It was pitched as the "most significant" shift in Australia's armed forces in decades. And among the headline announcements, climate change was recognized as an issue of national security.
Environment
Apr 25, 2023
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By invading new environments, some alien species have caused disastrous consequences for local species and ecosystems, as well as for human activities—damage to infrastructure, crops, forest plantations, fishing yields, ...
Ecology
Apr 18, 2023
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Three-dimensional simulations shed light on how energy dissipates within non-Newtonian fluids (fluids in which viscosity depend on the shear rate.) The result is valuable in the context of disaster forecasting and the management ...
Soft Matter
Apr 13, 2023
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Temperatures are rising in Japan and summer is coming fast.
Environment
Apr 11, 2023
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Research using innovative techniques has revealed the 1987 Edgecumbe earthquake caused more land damage than initially thought, after comparing aerial photos of the landscape before and after the event.
Earth Sciences
Apr 10, 2023
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Scientists have long predicted that global climate change could fuel an increase in the frequency and severity of natural disasters including hurricanes, heatwaves and cold snaps, droughts and floods and wildfires. In a paper ...
Environment
Apr 6, 2023
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Natural disasters can devastate a region, abruptly killing the species that form an ecosystem's structure. But how this transpires can influence recovery. While fires scorch the landscape to the ground, a heatwave leaves ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 5, 2023
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An international study shows that soil in urban green spaces and natural areas share similar levels of multiple contaminants such as metals, pesticides, microplastics and antibiotic resistance genes around the world. Soil ...
Environment
Apr 5, 2023
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Religion is a human universal. For thousands of years, humans have held religious beliefs and participated in religious rituals. Throughout history, every human society has featured some kind of supernatural or religious ...
Archaeology
Apr 4, 2023
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When natural disasters strike, women and girls tend to experience disproportionate challenges and heightened risks.
Social Sciences
Mar 31, 2023
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