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Hurt by sea: how storm surges and sea-level rise make coastal life risky

  • Written by Kathleen McInnes, Senior research scientist, CSIRO

The journal Climatic Change has published a special edition of review papers discussing major natural hazards in Australia. This article is one of a series looking at those threats.


Australia is a huge continent, but a coastal nation. About 80% of Australians live within 50km of the coast, and a sea-level rise of 1.1 metres (a high-end scenario for...

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If smoking doesn't kill, Mike Pence, neither does the plague

  • Written by Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney

US Vice President elect Mike Pence (who has been the recipient of funding from Big Tobacco) once famously wrote:

Time for a quick reality check. Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn’t kill. In fact two out of every three smokers does [sic] not die from smoking-related illness and nine out of ten smokers...

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Underwater health check shows kelp forests are declining around the world

  • Written by Adriana Vergés, Senior Lecturer in marine ecology, UNSW Australia

Kelp forests are declining around the world and in Australia, according to two new studies.

The first, a global study published in the journal PNAS, found that 38% of the world’s kelp forests have declined over the past 50 years.

The second, published in the same PNAS edition, investigated one cause of the declines. Kelp forests in eastern...

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Women in prison: histories of trauma and abuse highlight the need for specialised care

  • Written by Silke Meyer, Lecturer in Domestic and Family Violence Practice, CQUniversity Australia

Australia’s female prison population has skyrocketed over the last decade, and most female prisoners have experienced abuse before they get to jail. The way the prison system treats these women risks making their trauma worse, which may boost their risk of re-offending.

Why does this matter? Apart from the fact that re-traumatising abuse...

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  1. Why was Shakespeare's death such at non-event at the time?
  2. Australian business should hold fire in reacting to Trump election
  3. Scabies: a neglected parasitic disease we already know how to treat
  4. Xenophon tells voters he's still considering lifetime ban bill
  5. World set for hottest year on record: World Meteorological Organization
  6. Be prepared, always: the tsunami message from New Zealand's latest earthquake
  7. What happened in New Zealand's magnitude 7.5 earthquake
  8. Health Check: is cheese good for you?
  9. Trump’s victory spells trouble but also exciting, unimagined opportunities
  10. Policy uncertainty continues to hamper carbon emissions management
  11. To understand how storms batter Australia, we need a fresh deluge of data
  12. Plan to reduce Indigenous suicides finally acknowledges lack of evidence and need for hope
  13. Clinton's loss was not because of sexism, but because she wasn't radical enough
  14. Fossil fuel emissions have stalled: Global Carbon Budget 2016
  15. US deal is a good news story for refugees -- here's why it took so long
  16. Turnbull's asylum seeker ban violates Australia's human rights obligations
  17. Franchisees don't do their homework and are too optimistic about risks: research
  18. Why Trump's victory will mean the end of US soft power
  19. David Hockney interrogates space and time
  20. Sexually transmissible infections on the rise in Australia: a snapshot
  21. We need more support systems for people who want to work during and after cancer treatment
  22. Tasmanian devils reared in captivity show they can thrive in the wild
  23. IBM's Watson would do a better job at being a bank teller than most current staff
  24. A deal to be welcomed but detail is missing
  25. Australia shores up defences against asylum seekers as US deal provides escape for refugees
  26. Newspoll: Labor gains to lead 53-47
  27. A blaze of light in every word: vale Leonard Cohen
  28. The view from Marrakech: climate talks are battling through a Trump tsunami
  29. As a writer-musician, Leonard Cohen was a one-off
  30. Goodbye Leonard, you brought us so much light
  31. Trump's win shows how vital the arts and humanities are
  32. On a bad day, some blue sky..
  33. What's behind the Trump bump in markets
  34. What might a Trump presidency mean for Muslims and the Muslim world?
  35. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Australia's reaction to the Trump victory
  36. Most men don't realise age is a factor in their fertility too
  37. President Trump could kill the Paris Agreement - but climate action will survive
  38. Trickle down Trump-economics is not the fiscal policy the world needs
  39. Australia should assume Trump won't step back from his campaign commitments
  40. The Trump presidency may not be all doom and gloom for the region
  41. Friday essay: Camarade – The Earth
  42. Swingers' hookup program can find the right match for endangered species
  43. Firestorms: the bushfire/thunderstorm hybrids we urgently need to understand
  44. Lovability: restoring liveability’s human face
  45. Suppressing the immune system won't improve your chances of conceiving with IVF
  46. Grattan on Friday: As one businessman to another…Malcolm and Donald begin to talk
  47. On your bike Trump
  48. Dear Mr President-elect Trump, thanks! We now live in the best of all possible worlds
  49. Race to the White House – President-elect Donald J Trump
  50. Australia to ratify the Paris climate deal, under a large Trump-shaped shadow

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