How dangerous are humans to sharks?
By Rob Day & Terry Walker A new approach estimates the risks that fishing and climate change pose to any shark species in Australia, and potentially worldwide. Southern Australia has many species of sharks and their relatives. Very few of these species pose any...
What are the big takeaways from the IPCC report?
By Jacqueline Peel, Kathryn Bowen & Ben Neville The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released the scientific playbook for charting our climate future – but we must act immediately. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has...
Do COVID vaccination passports have a role to play?
By Paul Garrett As Australia and the world navigates its way to a post-COVID-19 normality, what role should immunity passports play and what does the public think? Australia’s national COVID-19 vaccination rate is on track to hit 70 per cent by November, and the...
What is the impact of air pollution on life expectancy?
By Nilakshi Waidyatillake, Mark Stevenson & Shyamali Dharmage Air pollution is already having devastating effects on human health, now a new study shows how particulate matter in the air is associated with premature deaths. Since early 2020, when much of the world...
Is TikTok breaching your privacy?
By Niels Wouters & Jeannie Paterson TikTok is hugely popular. But its latest decision to capture unique digital copies of your face and voice is a cybersecurity threat to your identity and privacy. With more than one billion users since 2017, TikTok is one of the...
What’s the right COVID-19 risk to live with?
By Tony Blakely, Tim Wilson & Vijaya Sundararajan As Australia looks toward opening its international borders, new virus modelling provides scenarios that can help us decide what’s the right risk to tolerate. As Australia inches up its vaccine rollout, the...Subscribe by Email
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