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Drinking one unit of alcohol reduces your life expectancy by 15 to 30 minutes.
An annual assessment of the health of Australia's environment shows mostly stable conditions in 2017, but ecosystems on land and at sea suffered ever higher temperatures.
Talks should include barriers to women’s participation in peace and security institutions, countering violent extremism, foreign fighters, sexual violence in conflict, and the Rohingya crisis.
Large asteroids have hit Australia over many millions of years and the evidence is in the landscape, if you know where to look.
Across large ares of Australia, rocky outcrops are being obliterated to open up more land for farming. But many of these "bush rocks" are refuges for fragile ecosystems.
Proposed changes to the government's climate change policies may stall, or even close down, the market for 'carbon farmers' to profit from reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
Solar photovoltaics and wind power are on track to supplant fossil-fuel-based electricity generation by the 2030s. The only thing holding back the renewable revolution is politics.
In the aftermath of fires or logging, conservation needs to focus on recovering the health of the remaining vegetation, not just the size of the forest or woodland.
An exhibition dealing with "development" in the Northern Territory, shows there is political power in storytelling through the visual arts.
The Impressionists were obsessed with the science of colour, which is celebrated in a new exhibition in Adelaide. At least 50 of the paintings have never previously been exhibited in Australia.
Conspiracy theorists are commonly seen as fundamentally irrational, with an all-encompassing obsession. But new research suggests they may have quite different motivations, beliefs and attitudes.
Politics podcast: John Blaxland on Australia’s expulsion of Russian spies.
The expulsion of two Russian spies from Australia will have a significant effect on Russia's espionage here.
China's Tiangong-1 space station is hurtling around Earth out of control and about to come crashing down. It's just one of thousands of pieces of space junk left orbiting our planet.
This study confirms that a student’s background matters, and that targeting students early is vital.
Preparations for next month’s Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast are pushing homeless people out of town, and out of the state. Sadly, that's not unusual for events of this sort.
Agreements between the Commonwealth and state governments that protect native forests are based on hopelessly out-of-date information. It's a huge mistake to renew them without assessment.
Harvesting data from Facebook's users is within the rules, I should know, I've done this kind of research myself. But the latest scandal may make it harder for us to get any useful data.
Clive Hamilton’s book is perhaps a useful reminder that we must not be naïve about our relationship with China, but his prescription is the wrong direction for tackling the genuine issues he raises.
Today, beauty counts for little in the judgement of works of art. But our felt experience of beauty connects us with an object's maker, revealing a pure moment of humanity.
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Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Professor of Engineering, Australian National University
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Earth and paleo-climate scientist, Australian National University
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Australian National University
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ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Senior Research Officer, Australian National University
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Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University
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Graduate Student in Philosophy, Australian National University
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Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
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PhD Candidate, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
