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New technology offers hope for storing carbon dioxide underground

  • Written by: Dom Wolff-Boenisch, Senior Lecturer, Western Australian School of Mines, Curtin University
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To halt climate change and prevent dangerous warming, we ultimately have to stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. While the world is making slow progress on reducing emissions, there are more radical options, such as removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and storing them underground.

In a paper published today in Science my...

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Does tourism really suffer at sites listed as World Heritage In Danger?

  • Written by: Jon C. Day, PhD candidate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
imageVisits to Belize's reefs have been climbing, despite them being listed as World Heritage in Danger since 2009.Elizabeth Albert/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

In 2014, 1.88 million tourists visited the Great Barrier Reef, bringing an estimated A$5.17 billion into Australia’s economy and helping to employ some 64,300 tourism workers.

With those...

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Coal and industrial relations: how miners secured workers' rights

  • Written by: Erik Eklund, Professor of History, Federation University Australia
imageMiners were fired by a sense of solidarity but also by dangerous working conditions, which produced high death and injury rates.Janet Lindenmuth/Flickr, CC BY-SA

As the world moves to combat climate change, coal is becoming increasingly vilified for its greenhouse gas emissions. But coal played a vital role in the Industrial Revolution, and...

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How Australians Die: cause #5 – diabetes

  • Written by: Merlin Thomas, Adjunct Professor of Preventive Medicine, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute
imageDiabetes is characterised by higher than normal levels of glucose in the blood.Leon Ephraim/Unsplash, CC BY

This is the final in the How Australians Die series that focuses on the country’s top five causes of death and how we can drive down rates of these illnesses. Previous series articles were on heart diseases and stroke, cancers, dementia...

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  1. Why Australia won't recognise Indigenous customary law
  2. From little things: the role of the Aboriginal customary law report in Mabo
  3. Law reports push piecemeal changes to native title, but still fall short
  4. The ACTU is a key Labor supporter but how much power does it actually have?
  5. Why the voice of Big Business is facing its biggest test
  6. Vital Signs: central bankers longing for growth that may not come
  7. Friday essay: punk's legacy, 40 years on
  8. Driverless cars need to hit the road come rain, wind or shine
  9. Governments must stop negatively framing policies aimed at Indigenous Australians
  10. Confusion about Senate rules could produce winners with small votes: Australia Institute
  11. Labor to release savings package
  12. Election podcast: Nick Xenophon on his play for Senate power
  13. Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Nick Xenophon
  14. Vote 1 'Other': what's driving more voters to back a minor party this election
  15. The ghost of the 'greedy geezers' hovers over our super debate
  16. Seven's Olympic coverage could change the way we watch sport on our screens
  17. Can The Avalanches flourish in a pop music world remade in their own image?
  18. The Hobbit took our breath away: now it's the new normal
  19. Why we need to pay more attention to negative clinical trials
  20. Election FactCheck: has $100 billion been added to Australia's national debt under the current government?
  21. Naming the 'invisible perpetrator': a big step forward for media coverage of violence against women
  22. Flat-earth economists lead the hysteria over budget deficits
  23. Computing told us how close we came to a global pandemic of a drug-resistant flu
  24. Michelle Grattan in conversation: Australian voters disengaged and disillusioned
  25. Speed networking: how to win Euro 2016
  26. Corporate venture capital can pay, but only if you get the structure right
  27. Six reasons why food is a really big deal
  28. Lobbying 101: how interest groups influence politicians and the public to get what they want
  29. Patient advocate or doctors' union? How the AMA flexes its political muscle
  30. How Australians Die: cause #4 – chronic lower respiratory diseases
  31. 'Character' and 'behaviour' off the field should not be selection criteria for the Olympics
  32. Coal was king of the Industrial Revolution, but not always the path to a modern economy
  33. It's time we broke up the retail arms of Australia's Big Four banks
  34. Shedding the 'victim narrative' for tales of magic, myth and superhero pride
  35. A 700,000-year-old fossil find shows the Hobbits’ ancestors were even smaller
  36. How the Hobbits kept their tools as they shrank into island life
  37. Google's other bets' losing streak: Nest and Verily's problematic Silicon Valley CEOs
  38. China and the US: when worlds collide
  39. Clinton clinches Democratic nomination after big wins in New Jersey and California
  40. How do we weigh the moral value of human lives against animal ones?
  41. New DNA study confirms ancient Aborigines were the First Australians
  42. Weekly Dose: methotrexate, the anti-inflammatory drug that can kill if taken daily
  43. Will Australia's digital divide – fast for the city, slow in the country – ever be bridged?
  44. Democracy goes missing in action as politicians obfuscate, avoid and patronise
  45. Taking the city’s pulse: we need to link urban vitality back to the planet
  46. Election FactCheck: Has the Coalition presided over the most sustained fall in Australian living standards since records began?
  47. No big deal: there is little to fear from nanoparticles in food
  48. Computing changed the 'flow' of watching television
  49. Google wants to tap the second golden age of television
  50. Honour thy parents, lead thy nation: Turnbull and Shorten play to the family feeling

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