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Doom and gloom? Here are the environment stories that cheered us up in 2017

  • Written by: Michael Hopkin, Section Editor: Energy + Environment, The Conversation

Don’t let anyone tell you we’re not a cheerful bunch here on the Environment + Energy desk – even if many of the stories we cover are a little on the gloomy side.

From the Great Barrier Reef to the Australian outback, and from Canberra to the White House, it’s been another less than stellar year for the environment.

That...

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Here's what bike-sharing programs need to succeed

  • Written by: Iderlina Mateo-Babiano, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Melbourne
imageAfter nearly a decade of operation, Brisbane's CityCycle scheme still needs to be subsidised.Ash Kyd/flickr, CC BY

Bike sharing has become a buzzword in cities from Cape Town to Shanghai to Melbourne. Planners, politicians and media pundits keep touting their benefits: reducing pollution, congestion, travel costs and oil dependence, while improving...

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Why can't dogs eat chocolate?

  • Written by: Susan Hazel, Senior Lecturer, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide
imageAs little as three squares of chocolate can make dogs sick.Duffy Brook

Most pet owners know chocolate and dogs don’t mix. Despite this, chocolate poisoning in dogs remains a problem, particularly at Christmas, as a new study in the journal Vet Record shows.

Chocolate and cocoa are products of cacao beans (Theobroma cacao) after they are...

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Religion may alter your psychology, even if you're a non-believer

  • Written by: Brittany Cardwell, Affiliate Researcher, University of Otago
imageMany Australians celebrate Christmas, even those who don't identify as being Christian. from www.shutterstock.com

Sick of tinsel, carols and talk of virgin birth?

In New Zealand, Australia and many other countries, it’s hard to escape Christmas in December.

But even if you don’t believe in Christ or a God, religion can still be a...

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  1. The Australian Music Vault moves the canon beyond pub rock
  2. Universities get an unsustainable policy for Christmas
  3. Neuroscience in pictures: the best images of the year
  4. People on low incomes are sacrificing basic goods to take out insurance
  5. How invasive weeds can make wildfires hotter and more frequent
  6. Elite companions, flute girls and child slaves: sex work in ancient Athens
  7. What you loved in Science and Technology 2017
  8. Ten tips to make your holidays less fraught and more festive
  9. Royal commission sheds light on another uncomfortable truth: harmful sexual behaviour in children
  10. Something is missing from the public interest journalism debate
  11. Australia's aged care residents are very sick, yet the government doesn't prioritise medical care
  12. Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters is a must-visit exhibition for all Australians
  13. Turnbull has politicked himself into irrelevance on energy and climate in 2018
  14. Mental disorders linked to poor NAPLAN performance in Australian schools
  15. Bad data collection means we don't know how much the middle class is being squeezed by the wealthy
  16. The evolutionary history of men and women should not prevent us from seeking gender equality
  17. Nick Xenophon could be South Australia's next premier, while Turnbull loses his 25th successive Newspoll
  18. The federal Climate Policy Review: a recipe for business as usual
  19. From the 16th-century to men's rights activists, why 'cuckold' is the worst thing you can call a man
  20. The social factors that influence whether you’ll use your wearable device
  21. Instead of asking women to 'fix' their choices about work, let's help them belong in a workplace
  22. What Jewish law says about suicide and assisted dying
  23. BMI is underestimating obesity in Australia, waist circumference needs to be measured too
  24. Tourists are happy when taken off the beaten track, and smaller cities and towns can tap into that
  25. A reshuffle that's come with plenty of pain and questionable gain
  26. Turnbull's reshuffle undermined by Barnaby Joyce's ousting of Darren Chester
  27. Journalists, there’s more than one expert in town, and here they are
  28. Miss out on our live Conversation Starters? We have you covered
  29. Transurban's West Gate tollway is a road into uncharted territory
  30. Health Check: what should you do with your unused medicine?
  31. More Australian trans stories on our TV screens, please
  32. Explainer: the charges against an Australian man accused of being an ‘economic agent’ for North Korea
  33. From testosterone to dogs, and physics for babies: five fascinating books in 2017
  34. Finally, police are taking family violence as seriously as terrorism
  35. Climate scientists and policymakers need to trust each other (but not too much)
  36. Belles in battle: how queer US soldiers found a place to express themselves in WWII
  37. Are mosquito coils good or bad for our health?
  38. To our FactCheck Q A readers: thank you for sharing the facts in 2017
  39. No sign of alien life 'so far' on the mystery visitor from space, but we're still looking
  40. Seven charts on the 2017 budget update
  41. Government budget update saved by higher than expected economic figures
  42. Budget update shaves growth and wage forecasts but is brighter about the deficit
  43. How painting escaped the canvas and another brush with death
  44. Tide turned: surveys show the public has lost its appetite for shark culls
  45. Michael Kirby: the rainbow in Asia and the fight for gay rights in our region
  46. Brandis off to London, as Turnbull prepares his reshuffle
  47. The royal commission's final report has landed – now to make sure there is an adequate redress scheme
  48. Pregnancy doesn't 'cure' endometriosis, so where does this advice come from?
  49. From reproducers to 'flutters' to 'sluts': tracing attitudes to women's pleasure in Australia
  50. By slashing environment spending, the government is slashing opportunities

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