Ski resorts faced with falling visitor numbers due to climate change should hedge their income by taking out separate weather derivatives (insurance-like financial products) for each month of the season, academics suggest.
Environment
Dec 2, 2024
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Some A$13 billion in taxpayer dollars and 30 years of policy reform have failed to arrest the devastating decline in the health of Australia's most important river system, the Murray-Darling Basin, new research shows.
Environment
Dec 2, 2024
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A leading University of South Australia researcher is calling for greater media literacy, early in children's formal education, as an 'essential line of defense' against online child abuse and sexual exploitation.
Social Sciences
Dec 2, 2024
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The heftiest and happiest cattle this summer will be those kept in the shade, according to new research out of Murdoch University.
Plants & Animals
Dec 2, 2024
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Up to 41% of Britons holidaying abroad could travel by rail instead of air to cut down on carbon emissions, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Leeds.
Environment
Dec 2, 2024
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With biodiversity declining at unprecedented rates worldwide, Canada stands at an important crossroads.
Environment
Dec 2, 2024
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November is National Native American Heritage Month in the U.S. This should be an opportunity for schools to discuss their country's colonial history. But the picture that students receive is often sadly lacking.
Education
Dec 2, 2024
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A lot of things scientists study are part of Country—the lands, waters and skies to which First Nations peoples are connected. In Australia, there has to date been little respect for the significance or value of cultural ...
Environment
Dec 2, 2024
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An international team of astronomers has investigated a planetary system consisting of three alien worlds orbiting the star TOI-396. The study, published Nov. 22 on the pre-print server arXiv, provides the first mass measurements ...
Clay minerals are a major constituent of the Earth's surface and are mainly found in the sediments of lakes, rivers and oceans. The properties of clay and claystone depend on how the tiny sediment particles are orientated. ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 2, 2024
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