Oral vaccines, rare ecosystems and microplastic map
The ‘Oscars’ of Australian research, Eureka! 2021 rewards new ideas.
Black summer bushfire research, a vaccine against a childhood virus and a science education program for Indigenous st...
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Cities of the future
As temperatures soar, how do we transform Australian cities to improve our health?
How does where you live affect your health? Those of us who live in cities probably don’t notice the thought – or lac...
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Scorching cities: Deadly urban heat has tripled
Study spans nearly a quarter of the world’s population.
The world is heating up, and cities are bearing the brunt of it. A new study of more than 13,000 cities has found tha...
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Mapping floods on every street in the world
New tool charts the extent of historic floods across the planet.
Accurate, street-level data on flooding risk is tremendously useful when preparing for natural disasters. But this da...
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Why Australia’s climate shock needs a ‘Moon shot’ | Cosmos Weekly Taster
Minderoo Foundation’s ambitious space-based Fire Shield project seeks to spot and extinguish fire...
This article on Fire Shield and bushfire prediction first appeared in Cosmos Weekly on 24 September 2021. For more st...
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Fossil fuel industry’s “climate deception” tactics challenged
US Government House Committee on Oversight and Reform tries to call big oil and its disinformatio...
The paper trail is damning. In 2015, a host of internal memos were leaked, subpoenaed or recovered through Freedom of...
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Why Australia’s climate shock needs a ‘Moon shot’
Minderoo Foundation’s ambitious space-based Fire Shield project seeks to spot, extinguish fires w...
The incredibly ambitious Apollo Moon shot program only succeeded because it had the backing of the American public. ...
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Measuring the mountain tap
Colorado has created an open-air laboratory from ground level to atmosphere in an attempt to comp...
As the world increasingly comes to grips with the realities of climate change, American scientists are setting up a f...
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Out of thin air: direct carbon capture is on the horizon
An Australian company hopes to be selling carbon-capture modules by next year.
An Australian company could be selling modules that suck carbon dioxide directly from the air as early as next year, ...
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Seven pieces of scientific information on the Vickery coal mine expansion
What does the science have to say about Vickery?
The Vickery coal mine extension in New South Wales has received approval from the Environment Minister, Sussan Ley. ...
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Satellite mapping is preparing Australian cities for a warming earth
A new start-up is bringing out-of-this-world data down to Earth, arming urban planners with envir...
Imagine you’re an urban planner, worried about your city’s resilience in the face of the growing threat of climate ch...
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Black Summer fires spawned phytoplankton bloom bigger than Australia
Smoke from the 2019/20 fires had an unexpected effect in the Southern Ocean.
Australia’s 2019/20 bushfires were a crisis on an epic scale. Not only did they burn through an estimated 18 million ...