By Chris Clarkson, Professor, Chair of Rock Art and Archaeology, Griffith University
Carney D. Matheson, Associate Professor, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University
Gilbert Price, Lecturer in Palaeontology, The University of Queensland
Michael Petraglia, Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Transforming Human Origins Research, Griffith University
A fossil hippo tooth is an unlikely find in the middle of a desert. The vast sandy expanse of Arabia’s Empty Quarter or Rub’ al Khali stretches across the southern part of the peninsula, covering parts of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates. Yet its ancient sands preserve evidence of a very different landscape.
About 125,000 years ago, a freshwater lake filled the Mundafan basin in southern…
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By Timothy McKenry, Professor of Music, Australian Catholic University
A hit song is ultimately more than the sum of its parts. It depends on a rare alignment of three factors.
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By Andrew Lowe, Director, Environment Institute, Adelaide University
Jasmin Packer, Research Fellow in Wildlife Conservation, Adelaide University
Robert Nasi, Director General CIFOR, Director of Science CIFOR-ICRAF, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
Nature can protect coastlines, watersheds and waterways for a fraction of the cost of traditional infrastructure. Why isn’t it mainstream?
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By Li Li (李黎), Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State
Typically, when people hear about nitrates, it involves runoff from farm fields, sewage systems and cities that can fuel harmful algae blooms and raise the risk of a serious illness in infants known as “blue baby syndrome.”
But a river can also run through a sparsely populated landscape with little farming and still contain surprisingly high levels of this form of nitrogen that can harm aquatic life, drinking water…
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By Simon Wright, Senior Research Fellow, Energy & Circularity, Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University
Backlash doesn’t mean communities are rejecting the clean energy transition. Many are asking for fairer benefits, and a bigger say in what the future looks like.
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By Kawser Ahmed, Adjunct Professor, Natural Resource Institute (NRI), University of Manitoba
The Nvidia investigation is unfinished and espionage has not been proved. The immediate lesson is that commercial openness needs credible safeguards. Canada can engage, but must protect.
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By Amnesty International
Reacting to a court’s decision to uphold the guilty verdict and 11 years and one month prison sentence of Lev Shlosberg, a leading member of the Yabloko party – the only party in Russia to stand on an anti-war platform – for sharing social media posts related to Russia’s war on Ukraine, Marie Struthers, Amnesty […] The post Russia: Lev Shlosberg’s outrageous 11-year prison sentence for anti-war views upheld appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A protest against violence targeting trans people in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on June 28, 2026. © 2026 Carolina Jaramillo/NurPhoto via Getty Images A brutal attack on trans women sex workers in Buenos Aires has sparked outrage in Argentina, raising questions about hate-motivated violence and the responsibility of public officials to protect groups vulnerable to discrimination.Footage of the November 1 attack, in which a group of young men hurled transphobic insults at the sex workers in Bosques de Palermo, chased them, and struck them with sticks, bottles, and…
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By Meagen Rosenthal, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Administration, University of Mississippi
Natalie Minton, Graduate Research Assistant, University of Mississippi
Mountains of scientific evidence support both the negative and positive effects of our eating habits on our health. Research shows that a healthy diet can help those suffering from chronic health conditions like Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and high…
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By Isabelle Prud'homme, PhD Student, Urban Geography, Université de Montréal
Sepideh Shahamati, Assistant Professor, École supérieure d’aménagement du territoire et de développement régional (ÉSAD)
A wider shift is taking place in which the Quebec government is pushing responsibility for social infrastructure off itself and onto community organizations.
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