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What Australian birds can teach us about choosing a partner and making it last

Author: Gisela Kaplan

Date: 2/6/2020

Gisela Kaplan, University of New England Love, sex and mate choice are topics that never go out of fashion among humans or, surprisingly, among some Australian birds. For these species, choosing the right partner is a driver of evolution and affects the survival and success of a bird and its offspr...

The Leadbeater’s possum finally had its day in court. It may change the future of logging in Australia

Author: Julia Dehm

Source: The Conversation

Date: 2/6/2020

Julia Dehm, La Trobe University The Federal Court last week ruled that VicForests – a timber company owned by the Victorian government – breached environmental laws when they razed the habitat of the critically endangered Leadbeater’s possum and the vulnerable greater glider. Environmentalis...

Really Australia, it’s not that hard: 10 reasons why renewable energy is the future

Author: Andrew Blakers

Source: The Conversation

Date: 29/5/2020

Andrew Blakers, Australian National University Australia’s latest greenhouse gas figures released today show national emissions fell slightly last year. This was by no means an economy-wide effort – solar and wind energy did most of the heavy lifting. Emissions fell 0.9% last year compared to ...

These plants and animals are now flourishing as life creeps back after bushfires

Author: Kathryn Teare Ada Lambert

Source: The Conversation

Date: 18/2/2020

Kathryn Teare Ada Lambert, University of New England As the east coast bushfire crisis finally abates, it’s easy to see nothing but loss: more than 11 million hectares of charcoal and ash, and more than a billion dead animals. But it is heartening to remember that bushfire can be a boon to some ...

It’s time to admit our COVID-19 ‘exit strategy’ might just look like a more flexible version of lockdown

Author: Toby Phillips

Source: The Conversation

Date: 21/4/2020

Toby Phillips, University of Oxford As the COVID-19 curve starts to flatten in Australia and New Zealand, people are rightly wondering how we will roll back current lockdown policies. Australia’s federal health minister Greg Hunt says Australia is looking to South Korea, Japan and Singapore to in...

Animal response to a bushfire is astounding. These are the tricks they use to survive

Author: Dale Nimmo

Source: The Conversation

Date: 8/1/2020

Dale Nimmo, Charles Sturt University Have you ever wondered how our native wildlife manage to stay alive when an inferno is ripping through their homes, and afterwards when there is little to eat and nowhere to hide? The answer is adaptation and old-fashioned ingenuity. Australia’s bushfire seas...

Some say we’ve seen bushfires worse than this before. But they’re ignoring a few key facts

Author: Joelle Gergis, Geoff Cary

Source: The Conversation

Date: 14/1/2020

Australia is a bushfire-prone nation. But several factors make this fire season worse than those past. Victorian Government Joelle Gergis, Australian National University and Geoff Cary, Australian National University Every time a weather extreme occurs, some people quickly jump in to say we’ve...

India and coronavirus: lack of access to handwashing facilities among poor makes fight even harder

Author: Christophe Z Guilmoto, Thomas Licart

Source: The Conversation

Date: 1/4/2020

Christophe Z Guilmoto, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) and Thomas Licart, Université de Strasbourg India introduced a national lockdown on March 24 hoping to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. As April 2020 begins, the country has registered over 1,500 cases of COVID-1...

Coronavirus: three misconceptions about how animals transmit diseases debunked

Author: Olivier Restif

Source: The Conversation

Date: 16/4/2020

Olivier Restif, University of Cambridge As global COVID-19 cases top two million, it’s humbling to remember that it all started when one person got infected by one wild animal. We may never find out precisely where or when it occurred, nor the animal which was responsible. But we do know that the...

Three reasons why Jacinda Ardern’s coronavirus response has been a masterclass in crisis leadership

Author: Suze Wilson

Source: The Conversation

Date: 6/4/2020

Jacinda Ardern/Facebook Suze Wilson, Massey University Imagine, if you can, what it’s like to make decisions on which the lives of tens of thousands of other people depend. If you get things wrong, or delay deciding, they die. Your decisions affect the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of p...

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What Australian birds can teach us about choosing a partner and making it last

The Leadbeater’s possum finally had its day in court. It may change the future of logging in Australia

Really Australia, it’s not that hard: 10 reasons why renewable energy is the future

These plants and animals are now flourishing as life creeps back after bushfires

It’s time to admit our COVID-19 ‘exit strategy’ might just look like a more flexible version of lockdown

Animal response to a bushfire is astounding. These are the tricks they use to survive

Some say we’ve seen bushfires worse than this before. But they’re ignoring a few key facts

India and coronavirus: lack of access to handwashing facilities among poor makes fight even harder

Coronavirus: three misconceptions about how animals transmit diseases debunked

Three reasons why Jacinda Ardern’s coronavirus response has been a masterclass in crisis leadership

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