The oldest genome of a modern human from the Wallacea region—the islands between western Indonesia and Papua New Guinea—indicates a previously undescribed ancient human relationship. Researchers were able to isolate sufficient ...
Archaeology
Aug 25, 2021
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Dozens of small island states most vulnerable to the effects of climate change have called on the world to save "our very future" after a landmark UN report said accelerating global warming and rising sea levels threaten ...
Environment
Aug 10, 2021
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Equatorial Asia, which includes Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, and surrounding areas, experienced devastating biomass burning in 2015 due to the severe drought condition induced by the extreme El Niño and a positive ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 15, 2021
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A destructive pest beetle is edging closer to Australia as biological controls fail, destroying home gardens, plantations and biodiversity as they surge through nearby Pacific islands.
Plants & Animals
Jun 17, 2021
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Climate change is causing the "feminisation" of green turtle populations in far north Queensland, but a study shows seawater irrigation could potentially reverse the male drought.
Plants & Animals
Jun 15, 2021
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Around the world, more than 7,000 languages are spoken, most of them by small populations of speakers in the tropics. Papua New Guinea (PNG), where nine million people speak 850 languages, is the most linguistically diverse ...
Social Sciences
Jun 3, 2021
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As reported in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, a newly-discovered bacterium named Candidatus phytoplasma dypsidis has been found to cause a fatal wilt disease.
Ecology
May 27, 2021
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In caves on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, ancient peoples marked the walls with red and mulberry hand stencils, and painted images of large native mammals or imaginary human-animal creatures.
Archaeology
May 14, 2021
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We know it is more than 60,000 years since the first people entered the continent of Sahul—the giant landmass that connected New Guinea, Australia and Tasmania when sea levels were lower than today.
Archaeology
Apr 30, 2021
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There are many hypotheses about where the Indigenous ancestors first settled in Australia tens of thousands of years ago, but evidence is scarce.
Archaeology
Apr 30, 2021
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