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It Is Only to Screw More Money Out of a Few Patsies

It Is Only to Screw More Money Out of a Few Patsies

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

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More Work Needed on Freshwater Rules

More Work Needed on Freshwater Rules

dailytelegraph.co.nz CHANGES TO FRESHWATER RULES ARE A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION BUT MORE WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE IF THE NEW GOVERNMENT ARE SERIOUS ABOUT RESTORING FARMER CONFIDENCE, FEDERATED FARMERS FRESHWATER SPOKESPERSON COLIN HURST SAYS. “The National Policy Statement on Freshwater Management is without a doubt the

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What Will Become of Cities?

Jeffrey A Tucker Jeffrey Tucker is Founder, Author, and President at Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy,

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What’s the Deal with Thunderstorms and Asthma?

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

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Insects Can Help Solve Crimes

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

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Humans, Rats and Dogs Pushed the Takahe Into Fiordland

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

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A Scandal on Top of Fabrication

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

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‘Bleached’ Reef Just Fine 18 Months Later

‘Bleached’ Reef Just Fine 18 Months Later

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

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Energy Plays an Important Role in Prosperity

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

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

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

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80% More Problems Than Other Cars

80% More Problems Than Other Cars

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

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EVs Aren’t Good for the Environment

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

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Why Tassie Burns So Easily

Why Tassie Burns So Easily

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

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How Climate Fears Hit Youth

How Climate Fears Hit Youth

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

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Fired for Doing His Job

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

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SUV and Ute Sales Slowed Due to NZ’s Clean Car Discount

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

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