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the crown’s role in Indigenous rights in the Commonwealth
That the recent visit of King Charles to Australia – his first as the country’s sovereign – attracted protests will...
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Getting carbon capture right will be hard – but that doesn’t make it optional
The UK government has given the go-ahead to carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) schemes worth £22 billion (US$28.6 billion)....
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We’ve bred corals to better tolerate lethal heatwaves, but rapid climate action is still needed to save reefs
Our research group has bred corals able to better survive marine heatwaves. Our work, now published in Nature Communications, shows...
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Fix the climate or appease the fossil fuel industry – we can’t do both
Britain ended more than 140 years of coal power when it closed its last generator in September. Coal emits more...
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Odyssey by Stephen Fry – the tales of return from the Trojan war are charmingly retold but at an uncomfortable cost
Stephen Fry’s Odyssey is the final instalment in his retellings of Greek myth that began with Mythos. Here, Fry tells...
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the killing of Hassan Nasrallah leaves Hezbollah leaderless and vulnerable
The assassination of Hezbollah chief, Hassan Nasrallah, in an Israeli airstrike on September 28 is a decisive blow – not...
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Keir Starmer’s party conference speech – what he said and what it meant
Prime Minister Keir Starmer was under immense pressure to announce some big policies in his 2024 party conference speech. Those...
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what the Lebanon pager attacks could mean for the Middle East conflict
This article was first published in our Gaza Update newsletter. Click here to receive our fortnightly updates on the conflict...
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‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman
From the swimming habits of dead trout to the revelation that some mammals can breathe through their backsides, a group...
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As renewable energy demand rises, mining for critical minerals in the Amazon is at a critical point
Illegal mining for critical minerals needed for the global renewable energy transition is increasingly driving deforestation in Indigenous lands in...
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