By Timothy Churchill, Adjunct Associate Lecturer, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UNSW
Gavin Ashburton, Puutu Kunti Kurrama Traditional Owner, Indigenous Knowledge
Tasmanian devils are among Australia’s most distinctive mammals. Stocky, powerful and famously noisy, wild populations are now restricted to Tasmania.
But this was not always the case. In fact, thousands of years ago devils could be found across mainland Australia.
Skeletal remains of Tasmanian devils have been found in deposits from southern Australia to the tropical north, across the Nullarbor, central Australia, Queensland, the Northern Territory and parts of southern Western Australia. Yet one…
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Thursday, September 10, 2026
Independent human rights investigators voiced deep concern over growing risks to both civilians and South Sudan’s political transition following their latest fact-finding mission to the world’s youngest nation – their 14th in a decade.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Anar Mammadli, human rights defender and election monitor, Baku, Azerbaijan, February 6, 2024. © 2024 Hannah Wagner/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo A court in Azerbaijan on September 7 sentenced the prominent human rights defender and election monitor Anar Mammadli to 13 years in prison following a trial marred by serious due process violations. His co-defendant, civic activist Anar Abdullayev, received a 12-year sentence.Mammadli, 48, spent more than two years in pretrial detention before the Baku Grave Crimes Court convicted him on politically motivated charges including…
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By Pete Fussey, Professor of Criminology and Head of Department for Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Southampton
Mark Maguire, Professor of Anthropology, Centre for Global Development, Maynooth University
It has been 25 years since the devastating attacks of September 11 2001. Amid the reflection that followed emerged the most comprehensive examination of any terrorist attack in history, the 9/11 Commission Report. Several statements in this forensic diagnosis continue to shape our understanding of those events. These range from the intelligence systems that were “blinking red” in the months preceding the attacks to various institutional “failures of imagination” that left the threat unrecognised.
Yet the commission’s…
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By Ross Cameron, Professor of Environmental Horticulture, University of Sheffield
UK gardens took a battering this summer as a heat dome settled over western Europe, and much of the green and pleasant land turned a dusty beige.
Some areas went without rain for almost two months. The “joy of gardening” turned into waiting until the cooler evening period, then laboriously trailing out from the kitchen with buckets of water to keep the patio plants alive.
But as the rains begin to…
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By Paul Leonard, Associate Professor in Biotherapeutics, Dublin City University
Marta Albin, PhD Candidate, Applied Immunology and Biotechnology, Dublin City University
This summer’s heat brought warnings about harmful algal blooms across Britain and Ireland. In August, swimmers were warned not to enter a newly designated bathing site on the River Thames at Ham and Kingston after blue-green algae were detected. The swimming section of an Ironman event in Leeds was also cancelled because of a bloom in Waterloo Lake.
It is tempting to blame these events entirely on the heat. Cyanobacteria, one of the main culprits behind these blooms, certainly benefit from warm, sunny…
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By Lynsey Cowlishaw, PhD Candidate in History and Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King's College London
Faithful fans are going to love Practical Magic 2 just the way they did the original – even though it was completely ridiculous.
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By Yongkang Xue, Professor of Geography and Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
A new study connects early winter heat high up on the plateau to the jet stream and, ultimately, storms headed for the US coast. The results could mean better forecasts.
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By Brian O'Neill, Professor of Practice, International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
A CIA veteran explains that a polygraph campaign is not likely to eliminate leaks, but it may divert investigative energy from essential security priorities.
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By Jared Ahmad, Lecturer in Journalism, Politics and Communication , University of Sheffield
Twenty-five years on, the legacy of the September 11 attacks continues beyond the initial physical and economic effects. The events of 9/11 and the subsequent “war on terror” severely undermined trust in mainstream news media in the US and around the world, laying the groundwork for today’s fractured, hyperpartisan information environment.
In the days and weeks after the attacks, American journalists…
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