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The new Great Barrier Reef pollution plan is better, but still not good enough

  • Written by: Jon Brodie, Professorial Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University

The draft water quality improvement plan, released by the federal and Queensland governments this week, aims to reduce the pollution flowing from water catchments to the Great Barrier Reef over the next five years.

It is part of the overarching Reef 2050 Long-Term Sustainability Plan to protect and manage the reef until mid-century.

Water quality i...

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Australia's record-breaking winter warmth linked to climate change

  • Written by: Andrew King, Climate Extremes Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
imageThis winter had some extreme low and high temperatures. Daniel Lee/Flickr, CC BY-NC

On the first day of spring, it’s time to take stock of the winter that was. It may have felt cold, but Australia’s winter had the highest average daytime temperatures on record. It was also the driest in 15 years.

Back at the start of winter the Bureau of...

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The more years spent in a classroom the lower your risk of heart disease

  • Written by: David Evans, Professor of Statistical Genetics, The University of Queensland
imageAn extra 3.6 years in a classroom can reduce your heart disease risk by a third. from www.shutterstock.com.au

A new study out today has found increasing education by 3.6 years – similar to the length of a university undergraduate degree – could reduce the risk of heart disease by a third. A decrease of this magnitude is similar to...

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The off-topic Conversation #134

  • Written by: Molly Glassey, Audience Development Manager, The Conversation

Welcome to The Conversation’s off-topic space. We’ve set this up as the place where you can discuss anything that isn’t related to a specific article. Please feel free to use this space to get to know each other and talk about news elsewhere and whatever else strikes your fancy.

This is also an opportunity to discuss broader...

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  2. Face Value: business leaders are betting we will spend more
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  4. How I came to know that I am a closet climate denier
  5. New research unlocks the mystery of leaf size
  6. Almost half of trans young people try to end their lives. How can we reduce this alarming statistic?
  7. Friday essay: The personal is now commercial – popular feminism online
  8. Racism is real, race is not: a philosopher's perspective
  9. Sex and the City, Santiago style, where they're serving up 'coffee with legs'
  10. There is no apprenticeships 'crisis' in Australia
  11. Grattan on Friday: If defeat comes, what then for the Liberals' succession?
  12. Don't expect the Grameen Bank's microfinance model to pay off for Australians
  13. Guam’s forests are being slowly killed off – by a snake
  14. Truth to power: how podcasts are getting political
  15. Doctors, lawyers and ministers all take a professional pledge: here's why teachers should too
  16. Why Google wants to think more like you and less like a machine
  17. Weekly Dose: Gardasil 9, the vaccine that could soon protect against cervical cancer in fewer doses
  18. Spirituality gone awry in India: what is Dera Sacha Sauda, and who is its jailed leader?
  19. Revealed: who supports marriage equality in Australia – and who doesn't
  20. Lasers and dung beetles: the 2017 Eureka Prizes celebrate the best of Australian science
  21. We tracked how investors read company reports and here's how they're misled
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  23. Explainer: what is chronic kidney disease and why are one in three at risk of this silent killer?
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  25. Three questions to ask about calls to widen breast cancer screening
  26. Turnbull is pursuing 'energy certainty' but what does that actually mean?
  27. New study finding fat isn't as bad as carbs misses the point
  28. Forget heatwaves, our cold houses are much more likely to kill us
  29. A Byzantine ancestor to same-sex marriage?
  30. Explainer: what is antifa, and where did it come from?
  31. Change Agents: Darren Kindleysides and Don Rothwell on how Australia briefly stopped Japanese whaling
  32. The Australian Greens at 25: fighting the same battles but still no breakthrough
  33. Ancient whales had more bite than today's gentle giants
  34. Of mice and men: why animal trial results don’t always translate to humans
  35. Hypocrisy reigns on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate
  36. Why retailers want you to 'click and collect'
  37. Can our cities' thriving creative precincts be saved from ‘renewal’?
  38. Devastating Himalayan floods are made worse by an international blame game
  39. Beyond Atomic Blonde: cinema's long, proud history of violent women
  40. Crystals like you've never seen them before: they're flexible
  41. Curious Kids: Why are rainbows round?
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