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Migrants’ latest health challenge: Scabies

An unexpected consequence of the global refugee crisis.

Australian fish population decreasing

A drop by a third over ten years, study finds.

Why Iceland is set to resume whaling despite international opposition

Increased tourism in Iceland is bringing attention to controversial practices like whaling.

Now the real work begins

Now that Malaysia has a new government, the real work begins reforming the country.

Trouble in paradise

Eruptions from Kīlauea volcano place the Hawaiian island on red alert.

What city planners can learn from Hobart’s floods

Lessons in resilience.

Federal Budget 2018: a state-by-state spending analysis

What does the budget mean for your state? Experts from around the country give their analysis.

Avoidable deaths caused by fake malaria drugs

The rise of counterfeit drugs.

Budget policy check: does Australia need personal income tax cuts?

An analysis by Saul Eslake published on The Conversation website

Migration is slowing Australia's rate of ageing

But not necessarily in the regions

Captured! Rare ‘glitch’ in a pulsar’s regular pulsing beat

Radio Telescope captures glitch in the Vela Pulsar.

Why Australia imports so many veggie seeds

And do we really need to treat them with fungicides?

On the trail of the London thylacines

An archive of bodies...

Let the games begin

Ten things you didn’t know about the Commonwealth.

How tree bonds can help preserve the urban forest

The balancing act of growing our cities and saving the trees

28 February 2018

The city with growing pains (and why roads won't help)

Growth pains and gridlock come to Hobart, and building more roads is not the best way out.

28 February 2018

Should Australia recognise the human right to a healthy environment?

Is a healthy environment a human right?

08 February 2018

Your guilt-free guide to flowers this Valentine’s Day

Have you ever thought about the sustainability (or lack thereof) of buying bunches of flowers?

07 February 2018

Sustainable shopping: take the ‘litter’ out of glitter

Dr Jennifer Lavers tells us how to sparkle, safely.

28 November 2017

Watering down the same-sex marriage bill

Conservative amendments to same-sex marriage bill would make Australia’s laws the world’s weakest