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Unlike the Kyoto Protocol, which languished for years, the Paris climate agreement is rocketing towards the threshold for it to enter into international law – leaving Australia in its wake.
Can wearing earplugs often cause tinnitus, or infection, or headaches? Let’s look at the facts.
New research shows protected areas are doing well at protecting large, iconic wildlife, but less well at helping smaller species.
Australia should look to India rather than the US Congress to secure its next regional trade win.
How does Donald Trump get away with the type of campaign he’s running? Why, if he’s a narcissistic demagogue, has he found an audience who respond to his politics?
More than 25,000 delegates will meet in Quito in October to set out a New Urban Agenda for the UN, to be implemented over the next 20 years. But Australia is yet to play a major role in the process.
Both the government and opposition’s proposed reforms to the superannuation system will target generous tax breaks given mostly to wealthy retirees.
All in all this was a fairly positive week for global economies.
Stories of meningococcal outbreaks tell us it’s that season again. But what is meningococcal, why does it occur in seasons, and why does it strike fear into the hearts of so many?
There is little evidence to show that teaching students according to perceived ‘learning styles’ has any positive effect on their learning.
Two members of the Climate Change Authority offer an alternative view on its latest report, arguing that the recommendations are not in line with Australia’s international climate obligations.
Australians are keen pet owners and increasingly, we’re monitoring the behaviour of our domestic animals. Webcams, GPS tracking, dogs joining Skype calls … pets are becoming entangled with technology in myriad ways.
There is plenty of evidence to show Australia’s Indigenous people had ways of counting big numbers, yet the myth persists they couldn’t count more than a handful of things. Why?
Professor Sir Michael Marmot explains how the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, determine their risk of poor health.
The black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens, could help solve global food shortages by feeding livestock. It can even be used to make diesel fuel.
Named after the Greek word “kreas” meaning flesh, creatine is an amino acid derivative found in all cells in the body, but is stored primarily in muscle.
Businesses have traded on graffiti and the air of edginess that draws visitors to Melbourne’s laneways. But they draw the line at sharing space with the homeless, whose right to the city is denied.
We tend to think of the oceans as quiet, when in fact they’re anything but. Noise is the “forgotten pollutant”, but the good news is that unlike many other pollutants it can be switched off if we try.
The court action ACCC has brought against Volkswagen might not succeed because Australia’s emissions standards are not as strict as those in the US and Europe.
At the end of the first sitting week of parliament, Labor caught the government flat-footed and without a majority in the House of Representatives.
At age four treatment for gender dysphoria consists of counselling, and nothing irreversible.
If the RBA includes commercial credit cards in new caps on interchange fees, small to medium enterprises might not be able to use them as a source of finance.
The ACCC has launched proceedings against VW for allegedly misleading consumers. But consumers won’t be directly compensated from the case.
Mother Teresa will become a saint on Sunday, on the basis of two miracles of healing. But let’s not remove our thinking caps and go all medieval: we should be wary of uncritical endorsement of claims to the miraculous.