By Mahima Kalla, Digital Health Transformation Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
Feby Savira, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Deakin University
Kara Burns, Digital Health Program Manager at the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health, The University of Melbourne
Sathana Dushyanthen, Academic Specialist & Senior Lecturer in Cancer Sciences & Digital Health| Superstar of STEM| Science Communicator, The University of Melbourne
Sometimes you can’t wait wait until 9am or Monday morning to see a doctor or access health care. Here are your options.
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By Karen Hands, Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries, University of the Sunshine Coast
Ginna Brock, Lecturer in English and Creative Writing & Publishing, University of the Sunshine Coast
Jane Frank, Lecturer in Communication, University of the Sunshine Coast
Online platforms like Reddit and Wattpad let writers test their skills for an audience – and provide a testing ground for Hollywood, too, through likes and upvotes.
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By Mani Naiker, Associate Professor in Chemistry, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, CQUniversity Australia
Joel Johnson, Researcher, Food Chemistry, CQUniversity Australia
You might know to steer clear of green potatoes and rhubarb leaves. That’s because they produce toxins that can make humans sick.
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By Judy Ingham, Newsletter Producer, The Conversation
On funding for disability support in schools and building downsized homes that actually appeal: an edited selection of your views.
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By Rebecca Kaarina Saari, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo
Across the world, air pollution is associated with more early deaths than any other environmental exposure, raising risks of dying from lung cancer, respiratory infection, heart and lung disease and other causes.
Even in Canada, where air pollution is generally considered a low risk, more than 17,000…
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By Oiwan Lam
Hong Kong environmental groups work with community and grassroots organizations to advocate for safety nets and inclusive climate action to help the vulnerable withstand heat hazards.
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By Ese Owie, Associate Professor of International Law and Policy, Euclid University | Pôle Universitaire Euclide ; University of Essex
Moving to renewable energy will fail unless wealthy nations help finance cleaner energy systems, industrialisation and local mineral processing across the African continent. This was the argument that African countries put to a recent meeting of 57 governments on phasing out fossil fuels.
The Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands and held in Colombia in April 2026, was the first major international gathering focused specifically on how countries might gradually…
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By Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, Professor of Climate Change, Food Systems and Health and Director of The Lancet Countdown in Africa, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
As climate crises deepen, Africa must turn its hard-won experience and local knowledge into global leadership on climate, health, food systems and clean energy.
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By Nina Wilén, Associate Professor, Lund University
Several of Mali’s major cities experienced coordinated attacks in April by a new coalition of jihadists and separatist groups.
As the coalition took over the town of Kidal in the north of Mali, images of Russian troops being escorted…
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By Ali Jasemi, Lecturer, Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University
News fatigue is not a personal failing, but a result of an evolutionary brain being asked to process a large volume of bad news from around the world.
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