Michelle Aitken particle.scitech.org.au One stormy November night in 2016, a horror story unfolded across Melbourne. Amidst strong winds and hail, thousands of people simultaneously started struggling to breathe. There was a 681 per cent increase in asthma-related hospital admissions and 10 people died. Some of them had
Kerri Duncan Kerri is an Adelaide-based freelance writer with a background in animal science and molecular biology. Always up for an investigative adventure, Kerri is addicted to exploring Earth’s wonders and finding as many waterfalls as possible. Her work in life sciences has deepened her appreciation of the natural
Nic Rawlence Senior Lecturer in Ancient DNA Alexander Verry Researcher, Department of Zoology University of Otago Takahe are a striking bird and a national treasure in New Zealand. But the history and origin story of this flightless swamp hen have become a point of scientific debate. Our latest research uncovered
Michael Rectenwald Michael Rectenwald is the author of 12 books, including The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty (2022), Thought Criminal (2020), Beyond Woke (2020), Google Archipelago (2019), Springtime for Snowflakes (2018), and Nineteenth-Century British Secularism (2016). He was a professor at NYU from 2008 to 2019. He is
Joanne Nova A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was formerly an associate
Miles Pollard Miles Pollard is an economic policy analyst with the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/ PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com As the international climate conference known as the Conference of the Parties, or COP28, starts the first Global Stocktake
John Maunder sunlive.co.nz This week over 70,000 people will attend COP 28, the 27th gathering of the Conference of the Parties dealing with climate change. By contrast, 38 years ago a small group of 100 scientists met in the small town of Villach in Austria to begin
Joanne Nova A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was formerly an associate
dailytelegraph.co.nz IN 2032, INDIA WILL NEED A BILLION TONNES OF COAL, PARTLY TO CHARGE EVS IN URBAN AREAS VIA POWER GENERATED BY THERMAL PLANTS. Five Indian cities, including the capital, New Delhi, consistently rank in the world’s top-10 worst air-polluted cities. Vehicular emissions are significant contributors; Delhi
The late Douglas Adams might well have been thinking of the mainstream media when he described sheep: “they were creatures who learned very little on their journey through life and would be startled to see the sun rising in the morning”. Your average Australian journalist has, in their less-than-30 years
Gabriela Fernando Gabriela’s key areas of interest are in interdisciplinary concepts across global health equity, non-communicable diseases, and women’s health and gender equality, with a particular focus on the South and Southeast Asia region. lens.monash.edu Young people are suing their governments in the US state of
by Danelle Morton and Topher Sanders, with additional reporting by Jessica Lussenhop ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Train Country; Investigating Railroad Safety in America As powerful railroad companies race to maximize
Timothy Welch University of Auckland theconversation.com With National, ACT and NZ First locked in coalition negotiations, various urgent and climate-related transport challenges hang in the balance. Based on pre-election rhetoric, the Clean Car Discount (CCD) scheme may soon be gone. While popular with the public, National has criticised the
Mary Hackshaw The rank hypocrisy of the Green Left has been on full display in the last week. The Melbourne Cup drew the usual rabble of protesters outside the Flemington venue, claiming that horse racing is cruel and that it kills. Following protests at recent Melbourne Cup parades of jockeys
John Klar libertynation.com Since its development as an integral part of genetically modified organism (GMO) cropping, glyphosate – the active weed-killing ingredient in Roundup – has attracted controversy over whether it causes human disease, particularly non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Previous jury verdicts have been split, with some finding liability and others not. Bayer,
dailytelegraph.co.nz GREENPEACE HAVE SHOWN THEY ARE NOTHING BUT AN ANTI-FARMING LOBBY GROUP BY CRITICISING FONTERRA’S NEW ON-FARM EMISSIONS TARGETS, SAYS FEDERATED FARMERS PRESIDENT WAYNE LANGFORD. “Yesterday Fonterra announced that they plan to reduce their emissions intensity 30% by 2030, but before the dust had even settled Greenpeace
