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We're investing heavily in urban greening, so how are our cities doing?

  • Written by: Marco Amati, Associate Professor of International Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
imagePerth has long had many fine parks but is losing vegetation cover in a band of increasingly dense development across the city.Ruben Schade/flickr, CC BY-NC

Governments at all levels invest a lot in greening Australian suburbs. Yet, in a recent report, we show that the greening efforts of most of our metropolitan local governments are actually going...

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Renewables will be cheaper than coal in the future. Here are the numbers

  • Written by: Ken Baldwin, Director, Energy Change Institute, Australian National University

In a recent Conversation FactCheck I examined the question: “Is coal still cheaper than renewables as an energy source?” In that article, we assessed how things stand today. Now let’s look to the future.

In Australia, 87% of our electricity generation comes from fossil fuels. That’s one of the highest levels of fossil fuel...

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Six common questions about eating carbs during pregnancy answered

  • Written by: Clare Collins, Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
imageThere's a big difference between carbohydrates in wholegrains and lollies. from www.shutterstock.com.au

During pregnancy women get bombarded with food and nutrition information. Eat this, don’t eat that! It gets very confusing. Recent debates about the role of carbohydrates have cranked the confusion up a notch. In pregnancy, women need...

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Curious Kids: How do we get allergic to food?

  • Written by: Lucinda Berglund, Clinical Senior Lecturer University of Sydney, Immunologist and Immunopathologist Westmead Hospital and NSW Health Pathology, University of Sydney
imageAllergies may be in the genes that are passed down from parents to children.Flickr/U.S. Department of Agriculture, CC BY

This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird or wacky!

How do we get...

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  2. Parents of teenage daughters more likely to divorce: study
  3. To avoid crisis, the gas market needs a steady steer, not an emergency swerve
  4. When a 'good death' was often painful: euthanasia through the ages
  5. How the government and One Nation may use media reforms to clip the ABC's wings
  6. Mounting housing stress underscores need for expert council to guide wayward policymaking
  7. Bad teeth? Here's when you can and can't blame your parents
  8. Turnbull loses 20th successive Newspoll, 54-46, but Yes to SSM support falls
  9. Yes case's SMS campaign was not invasive
  10. Sex and spirit: the many faces of ecstasy
  11. Don't be distracted by an SMS in the same-sex marriage survey debate
  12. Why US sports stars are taking a knee against Trump
  13. The rise of the corporate campus
  14. UK gene editing breakthrough could land an Aussie in jail for 15 years: here's why our laws need to catch up
  15. ATM fees may be gone but what will replace them?
  16. Collecting satellite data Australia wants: a new direction for Earth observation
  17. Cassie Sainsbury's trial by media
  18. How TV weather presenters can improve public understanding of climate change
  19. The insufferable film mother! revives tired hysterical stereotypes
  20. Cognitive ability plays a role in attitudes to equal rights for same-sex couples
  21. Baffled by baseload? Dumbfounded by dispatchables? Here's a glossary of the energy debate
  22. The economic reasons why Australia needs a stronger space industry
  23. Privatised land title offices can harness new technologies to provide a better service
  24. When life is coming to a close: three common myths about dying
  25. Waiting: rediscovering boredom in the age of the smartphone
  26. Mind-reading technology should not be used to solve crime
  27. Tax base eroded by backdoor deregulation of Australia's labour market and jump in foreign contract workers
  28. New law finally gives voice to the Yarra River's traditional owners
  29. Big gas shortage looming, but government stays hand on export controls
  30. Yes, Australia will have a space agency. What does this mean? Experts respond
  31. Introverts think they won't like being leaders but they are capable
  32. Courageous quests: Keats, art and refugees
  33. In historic cases, punishment alone is not always the best response to violent crime
  34. No, depression won't literally break your heart (but have a heart check anyway)
  35. Not taking the piss: why it’s important to examine how we teach and test physics to reduce gender bias
  36. Attitudes to same-sex marriage have many psychological roots, and they can change
  37. Taking sides: sport organisations and the same-sex debate
  38. Labor widens Newspoll gap as marriage vote tightens
  39. The off-topic Conversation #137
  40. Curious Kids: How can you tell if your cat is happy and likes you?
  41. Trash or treasure? A lot of space debris is junk, but some is precious heritage
  42. Bitcoin investors should be taxed like any other investor
  43. Mansplaining Australian cities – we can do something about that
  44. I've always wondered: can animals be left- and right-pawed?
  45. My favourite album: David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs
  46. New Zealand votes for conservatism and the status quo
  47. NZ First to hold balance of power after election
  48. Can two clean energy targets break the deadlock of energy and climate policy?
  49. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the same-sex marriage postal campaign
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