Sep 2, 2021 | Politics & Society
By Vanessa Andreotti Brazil is voting to legalize the destruction of the Amazon forest and the extermination of Indigenous peoples, the forest’s last line of defense. It is not just the people of Brazil who will suffer in the face of their government’s smartly...
Sep 2, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Science & Technology
By Richard Easther It’s the 150th anniversary of the birth of New Zealand’s most celebrated scientist, Ernest Rutherford. Richard Easther acknowledges the man who brought us the insight that our world is made of atoms. If there is an afterlife for physicists it will...
Sep 1, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
By Patricia A. O’Brien Together for decades, the US, Australia and New Zealand now face different challenges from China. Seventy years after the U.S., Australia and New Zealand signed a treaty committing them to defend one another and work together to ensure a...
Sep 1, 2021 | Science & Technology
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...