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Gas from the Beetaloo Basin will only pour fuel on the climate change fire

Gas is now flowing from the Beetaloo Basin, a vast fossil fuel project roughly 500 kilometres southeast of Darwin in the Northern Territory.

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Investments promising social or environmental benefits need tougher anti-greenwashing rules

Investment funds increasingly promise to deliver social or environmental benefits alongside financial returns. Regulators rightly ask if these “impact investment” claims are accurate.

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Why NZ should redraw council boundaries to match our connections to the landscape

As part of a major overhaul of local government, Cabinet is currently considering proposals from local councils on how to carve up regions into new unitary authorities.

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How Indigenous Protected Areas became a vital way to protect nature in Australia

When you think of conservation in Australia, chances are you’ll think of a national park.

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How ‘hyperselection’ is making modern life efficient, pleasant – and boring

It’s difficult to imagine a song like Queen’s 1975 Bohemian Rhapsody topping the charts today. Almost six minutes long, it moves through several radically different musical sections and famously ignores the conventional structure of a pop song. It seems almost designed to break the rules of what a hit single…

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One quarter of Australian kids are ‘developmentally vulnerable’ when they start school. Quality childcare can catch them up

We know the first five years are a crucial time in a child’s life. Early experiences, such as family relationships or exposure to trauma, shape brain architecture, which lays the foundation for children’s learning, behaviour and health.

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Does ‘R U OK? Day’ actually improve people’s mental health?

Every September, Australians are encouraged to ask someone a simple question: “Are you OK?”

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5,500 sheep were stolen from a remote farm. But most farm crime remains hidden

It is hard to imagine 5,500 sheep going missing. Yet, police believe this many ewes and rams, worth an estimated A$1.7 million, were stolen from a property near Blackall in central west Queensland between February and May.

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The Twin Towers shaped the Manhattan skyline for decades. Now, it’s shaped by their absence

At 10:28am on September 11 2001 New York City’s skyline was suddenly and dramatically altered.

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9/11 anniversary: democracy was not doomed to fail in Afghanistan – the US did not live up to its promises

After the signing of the Munich agreement in 1938 that allowed Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia, Winston Churchill spoke of the fate of that country in a powerful speech in the House of Commons:

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The failure to stop 9/11 was a catastrophe. But even bigger mistakes were made in its aftermath

The September 11 2001 terrorist attacks were unlike anything the world had seen before.

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Galileo, Copernicus, Cleansky, IRIS² must work together to secure Europe’s place in the space race

“Seeing the Earth from above is a powerful reminder of our interdependence,” Thomas Pesquet. The words of France’s tenth astronaut to head into Space are a reminder of how we are “in this together”, something that the world’s Aerospace industry players should take heed of as they gather in Paris…

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Proposed laws would let you opt out of social media algorithms. An expert explains

Social media users could switch off recommender algorithms in their social media feeds, under new draft laws the Australian government plans to unveil this week.

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Discovery of ancient DNA from antelope fossils in South Africa opens a new window on the past

Over the past 50,000 years, many of the world’s large mammals have gone extinct. Until recent decades, all we knew about them came from fossils. Now, analysis of ancient DNA is adding to the picture.

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Africa gets only 23% of the climate finance it needs – and pays too much for it

African countries have committed themselves to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and protecting their people from the worsening effects of climate change. These commitments form part of the Paris Agreement, an international climate treaty adopted in 2015 in which countries agreed to take steps to limit global warming.

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The Lindsay Clancy case looks tragically like NZ’s Lauren Dickason trial. Here’s where they differ

After protracted deliberations, the jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial in Massachusetts has failed to reach a verdict and the judge has declared a mistrial.

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How Gloria Steinem shaped — and sometimes over-shadowed — global feminism

Ten years ago, I had the honour of meeting Gloria Steinem. It was International Women’s Day 2016: Donald Trump was a joke that would supposedly never happen and #MeToo was still two years away. Yet, the clouds were gathering.

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Reform UK polling sting: why even small donations matter in politics these days

Reform UK’s national conference has been rocked by allegations that senior members of the party plotted to circumvent rules on political donations. The reports centre on two payments – one real and one suggested, but both important. The two Reform staff members at the centre of the investigation have been…

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Syria: journey through a country in ruins

Just over a decade ago, at the height of Russia’s bombing campagn in Syria in 2015, an old friend who had spent much of his career teaching in the Middle East sent me two photographs of the city of Homs, which had taken a particularly heavy bombardment at the hands…

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A mosquito that can transmit Zika has bred in London – but that doesn’t mean the virus is spreading in people there

The discovery that a mosquito species capable of transmitting the Zika, dengue and chikungunya viruses is breeding in east London may sound alarming, particularly to people living nearby. Yet finding the species is several steps removed from finding evidence that any of these viruses are circulating locally.

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In re-releasing Avengers Endgame, Marvel is quietly admitting its Multiverse failures

The rumours have been swirling around for several months, and now they’ve been confirmed with a shiny new trailer: Marvel is re-releasing 2019’s Avengers: Endgame on September 25 2026 – three months before its epic Christmas showdown, Avengers: Doomsday.

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Climate change images are getting scarier – could fear help drive action?

Over the summer, Europe provided a stark new set of images of climate change. Wildfires raced across forests and grasslands, rivers and reservoirs dried up in droughts and extreme heat disrupted everyday life.

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The Raw and the Cooked exhibition: art goes medieval in search of the aesthetic of the middle ages

Entering The Raw and the Cooked at the Saatchi Gallery in London, you are faced with a single enormous painting that occupies the whole of the opposite wall. The Punishment of Richard Roose (2026) is a magnificently anachronistic project: a museum-scale picture of a fairly obscure episode of English history.

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War drama Pressure depicts D-day’s weather forecast – what we found when we recreated the challenge using modern systems

Meteorologist James Stagg gave what many regard as the most important weather forecast in history in June 1944. The fate of more than 150,000 allied troops preparing to invade the Normandy beaches on D-day and the future of the war in Europe depended on Stagg and his forecast teams. Get…

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