Risky play should be incorporated into early childhood science education in nature-based settings to lay early foundations for science education, says Deakin researcher.
Education
May 7, 2024
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Hawaiʻi is not the only Pacific island where wildfire is a concern. Using fire histories, vegetation and soil maps, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa wildfire expert Clay Trauernicht led new research that examined the relationships ...
Environment
Mar 28, 2024
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One afternoon last year, we sat in a village hall in Fiji chatting to residents about traditional ways of forecasting tropical cyclones. One man mentioned a black-winged storm bird known as "manumanunicagi" that glides above ...
Environment
Mar 13, 2024
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The Hadley circulation is a key atmospheric circulation pattern in the tropics. It helps even out the temperature between the equator and the poles by moving energy and momentum toward higher latitudes. However, recent studies ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 31, 2024
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In Hawaiʻi and across much of Oceania, Pacific Islanders celebrate the connections between their islands and the ocean that surrounds them.
Earth Sciences
Jan 3, 2024
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A study has shed new light on remarkable feats of navigation from cultures across the world: from sailors in the Marshall Islands using wave patterns to navigate the vast Pacific Ocean to indigenous communities in Alaska ...
Social Sciences
Dec 21, 2023
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Palestine's natural splendor offered a landscape ripe for scientific "discovery," description and expropriation by European imperial powers in the 19th century. And in the 1860s, an English vicar named Henry Baker Tristram ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 21, 2023
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In a landmark collaboration between Wiradjuri people, NSW State government and archaeologists, new research has revealed the deep-time hidden story of Wiradjuri carved trees (marara) and burials (dhabuganha) in Southeast ...
Archaeology
Nov 24, 2023
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Extreme weather events have been making headlines worldwide due to their increasing frequency and severity, often attributed to ongoing global-scale warming. The year 2022 was no exception, with record-breaking heat waves ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 17, 2023
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A new study by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory looks at some of the influences that could be driving the increasingly severe weather over Pakistan.
Earth Sciences
Oct 13, 2023
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