By Karen Stockin, Professor of Marine Ecology, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
Timmy, the humpback whale repeatedly restranding in shallow waters in the Baltic Sea, has reignited a heated debate about when to intervene, and when not to.
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By Kate Marie Quigley, DECRA Research Fellow in molecular ecology, James Cook University
Elise Thérèse Gisèle Dehont, PhD student in Fisheries Science and Marine Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Connectivity isn’t a nice-to-have for coral reefs – it’s their lifeline. And now scientists know which reefs serve as vital ‘stepping stones’ for coral larvae.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Afghan refugees board a truck with their belongings as they await deportation at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chaman on October 19, 2025. © 2025 Abdul Basil/AFP via Getty Images (New York) – Pakistani authorities have sharply escalated abusive raids, arbitrary detentions, and forced returns of Afghan refugees following renewed border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said today. Police operations have left thousands of already vulnerable Afghan refugees, including children, facing serious barriers to health care, education, and other…
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Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Three years into the devastating conflict in Sudan, nearly four million displaced people have returned to their places of origin across the country, only to face “another struggle for survival”, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday.
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By Chris Evans, Emeritus Professor, School of Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, UNSW Sydney
We don’t inflation-proof any other parts of the tax system, so why should we give special treatment to capital gains?
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By Wesley Morgan, Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney
Ben Newell, Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Director of the Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney
Frustrations at slow global climate talks has led more than 50 nations to begin plans to phase out fossil fuels – even as oil shocks raise the stakes.
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By Thomas Pace, Researcher and Lecturer at the Thompson Institute, University of the Sunshine Coast
Roger Koenig-Robert, Senior Research Fellow, Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney; UNSW Sydney
There’s a lot going on in your brain all the time. To power your imagination, the neurons need some silence.
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By Fotini Vasilopoulos, Postdoctoral Researcher, Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney
For children, rocks can be spaceships. Pens can be fairies. And this kind of play can help protect mental health in childhood, according to new research.
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By Laura Davy, Senior Lecturer, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Computers promise to replace fallible human judgement with something more consistent, efficient and fair. But this isn’t always the case.
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By Alexandra Aikhenvald, Professor and Australian Laureate Fellow, Jawun Research Institute, CQUniversity Australia
When the Crusaders descended upon the eastern shores of the Mediterranean at the end of the 11th century, they had to communicate with each other, with traders and with locals.
Many of them spoke different Romance languages: Italian (especially from the then powerful city-states of Venice and Genoa), Provençal, French or their forerunner, Latin.
Most Westerners in southern Europe were French, especially from between Marseilles and Genoa, from where ships and traders sailed towards the Middle East. These…
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