Three-quarters of Australia's freshwater fish species are found nowhere else on the planet. This makes us the sole custodians of remarkable creatures such as the ornate rainbowfish, the ancient Australian lungfish and the ...
Plants & Animals
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Pupil-free or student-free days may seem like an extra holiday for students and an inconvenience for parents, who are juggling work and family.
Social Sciences
Nov 15, 2024
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In the first ruling of its kind, the Dutch Hague District Court in 2021 ordered a fossil fuel company, Shell, to slash its emissions. This decision would have required the oil and gas giant to cut its emissions by 45% by ...
Environment
Nov 15, 2024
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As the U.N.'s climate summit, COP29, gets underway in Azerbaijan this week, the effect of climate change on human health is high on the agenda. And rightly so, amid some alarming emerging statistics. By the end of this century, ...
Environment
Nov 15, 2024
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Since the Industrial Revolution, country after country has turned to fossil fuels to power their transport and industry.
Environment
Nov 15, 2024
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It's one of the most thrilling sequences in Ridley Scott's new film Gladiator II, the long-awaited sequel to the 2000 Oscar-winning blockbuster.
Archaeology
Nov 15, 2024
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A new study led by the University of Aberdeen has provided greater understanding of Scotland's final deadly brush with the plague.
Archaeology
Nov 15, 2024
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Researchers are calling for a 'resilience index' to be used as an indicator of policy success instead of the current focus on GDP. They say that GDP ignores the wider implications of development and provides no information ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 15, 2024
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Debate continues to swirl nationally on the fate of a practice born of an 86-year-old federal statute allowing companies to pay workers with disabilities subminimum wages: anything below the federal minimum wage of $7.25 ...
Economics & Business
Nov 15, 2024
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A stretch of river into which treated wastewater has been discharged emits five times more methane than a stretch of river without that wastewater. This is according to research by Ida Peterse and Lisanne Hendriks of Radboud ...
Environment
Nov 15, 2024
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