By Arthur Wyns, Research fellow, The University of Melbourne
The UN’s global climate summits have been accused of being slow, opaque and a magnet for fossil fuel lobbyists. A major overhaul is needed to make them relevant.
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By Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia
More than 900 people are dead, thousands more missing and millions affected by a band of cyclones and extreme monsoonal weather across southern Asia. Torrential rain has triggered the worst flooding in decades, accompanied by landslides. Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia have been hit hardest. The death toll is likely to rise significantly.
Normally, cyclones don’t form close to the equator. But Cyclone Senyar formed just north of the equator in the Malacca Strait.…
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By Vera Korasidis, Lecturer in Environmental Geoscience, The University of Melbourne
Julian Rogger, Senior Research Associate, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
Around 56 million years ago, Earth suddenly got much hotter. Over about 5,000 years, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere drastically increased and global temperatures shot up by some 6°C.
As we show in new research published in Nature Communications, one consequence was that many of the world’s plants could no longer thrive. As a result, they soaked up less carbon from the atmosphere, which may have contributed to another interesting thing…
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Sunday, November 30, 2025
A woman living with disabilities in a camp for displaced people in Nigeria is demonstrating why it is essential that people like her are included in society and how dignity can be protected even in the harshest places.
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By Alex Simpson, Associate Professor in Criminology, Macquarie University
State governments across the country have brought in harsher laws to deal with youth crime in recent years. But do the stats justify the punitive measures?
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By Kim Osman, Senior Research Associate, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
Lynrose Jane Genon, PhD Candidate, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
Michael Dezuanni, Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
The responses reveal a much more nuanced picture of the relationship between young Australians and social media than the public debate suggests.
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By Karyn Healy, Honorary Principal Research Fellow in Psychology, The University of Queensland
The federal government has encouraged kids to ‘stand up’ to bullies on behalf of victims. But research suggests it may not work and can even be counterproductive.
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By Chelsea Arnold, Clinical Psychologist and Research Fellow (Lead Clinician), Monash University
In the Netflix show Nobody Wants This Morgan begins a relationship with her therapist Dr Andy.
Morgan’s sister Joanne and the rest of Morgan’s family are concerned about the relationship. But the TV show does not appropriately grapple with the severity of Dr Andy’s actions.
Dr Andy is not reported to the regulator, nor does a senior psychologist counsel him such a relationship is inappropriate and unethical.
The show raises an important issue about psychologists dating their clients. And Australian…
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By Tess Scholfield-Peters, Casual Academic, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
In her hybrid memoir 58 Facets, lawyer and legal anthropologist Marika Sosnowski traverses time and societies to reveal intricacies of law enacted by states to control, suppress, displace and, in some instances, erase people. For myriad reasons, these people do not possess the legal documentation to survive.
Many of us take the law for granted, or at least, do not have to think much about how it intersects with our daily lives. Similarly, many of us may not think about the pulse of revolution and resistance,…
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By Phil Lester, Professor of Ecology and Entomology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Two-dozen Asian yellow-legged hornet nests and queens have now been found on Auckland’s North Shore. Speed and more resources will be crucial.
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