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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Moderna vaccine has been provisionally approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration for use in Australia, with one million doses due in the second half of September, which will go to pharmacies. Three million doses are then scheduled to arrive ... <a title="Australia’s vaccines boosted with provisional approval for Moderna" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/australias-vaccines-boosted-with-provisional-approval-for-moderna-165820/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s vaccines boosted with provisional approval for Moderna">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle H Lim, Senior Lecturer and Clinical Psychologist, Swinburne University of Technology Shutterstock Millions of Australians are currently living under lockdowns in an effort to curb the rapid spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19. While lockdowns and other social distancing restrictions are important strategies to protect ... <a title="Lockdowns make people lonely. Here are 3 steps we can take now to help each other" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/lockdowns-make-people-lonely-here-are-3-steps-we-can-take-now-to-help-each-other-165256/" aria-label="Read more about Lockdowns make people lonely. Here are 3 steps we can take now to help each other">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Renwick, Professor, Physical Geography (climate science), Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Sanka Vidanagama/NurPhoto via Getty Images The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has delivered a sobering update on how much the Earth has warmed and how the climate system is responding. The ... <a title="The global water cycle has become more intense, and that makes New Zealand’s wet regions wetter, and dry ones drier" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/the-global-water-cycle-has-become-more-intense-and-that-makes-new-zealands-wet-regions-wetter-and-dry-ones-drier-165797/" aria-label="Read more about The global water cycle has become more intense, and that makes New Zealand’s wet regions wetter, and dry ones drier">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Golledge, Professor of Glaciology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Shutterstock/slowmotiongli After three years of writing and two weeks of virtual negotiations to approve the final wording, the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirms that changes are ... <a title="Rising seas and melting glaciers: these changes are now irreversible, but we have to act to slow them down" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/rising-seas-and-melting-glaciers-these-changes-are-now-irreversible-but-we-have-to-act-to-slow-them-down-165527/" aria-label="Read more about Rising seas and melting glaciers: these changes are now irreversible, but we have to act to slow them down">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Grose, Climate projections scientist, CSIRO Australia is experiencing widespread, rapid climate change not seen for thousands of years and may warm by 4℃ or more this century, according to a highly anticipated report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The assessment, released on Monday, ... <a title="Climate change has already hit Australia. Unless we act now, a hotter, drier and more dangerous future awaits, IPCC warns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/climate-change-has-already-hit-australia-unless-we-act-now-a-hotter-drier-and-more-dangerous-future-awaits-ipcc-warns-165396/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change has already hit Australia. Unless we act now, a hotter, drier and more dangerous future awaits, IPCC warns">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Grose, Climate projections scientist, CSIRO Dave Hunt/AAP Of all the troubling news in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report out on Monday, one warning will surely generate the most headlines: under all scenarios examined, Earth is likely to reach the crucial 1.5℃ warming limit ... <a title="IPCC says Earth will reach temperature rise of about 1.5℃ in around a decade. But limiting any global warming is what matters most" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/ipcc-says-earth-will-reach-temperature-rise-of-about-1-5-in-around-a-decade-but-limiting-any-global-warming-is-what-matters-most-165397/" aria-label="Read more about IPCC says Earth will reach temperature rise of about 1.5℃ in around a decade. But limiting any global warming is what matters most">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pep Canadell, Chief research scientist, Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; and Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Earth has warmed 1.09℃ since pre-industrial times and many changes such as sea-level rise and glacier melt are now virtually irreversible, according to the most sobering report yet ... <a title="This is the most sobering report card yet on climate change and Earth’s future. Here’s what you need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/this-is-the-most-sobering-report-card-yet-on-climate-change-and-earths-future-heres-what-you-need-to-know-165395/" aria-label="Read more about This is the most sobering report card yet on climate change and Earth’s future. Here’s what you need to know">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elise Schubert, Pharmacist and PhD Candidate, University of Sydney Shutterstock Australia currently has drugs that treat the symptoms of COVID, and drugs which have been repurposed from other diseases. Now the government has placed an early order for a new drug, sotrovimab, which works on COVID-19 virus ... <a title="What is sotrovimab, the COVID drug the government has bought before being approved for use in Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/what-is-sotrovimab-the-covid-drug-the-government-has-bought-before-being-approved-for-use-in-australia-165802/" aria-label="Read more about What is sotrovimab, the COVID drug the government has bought before being approved for use in Australia?">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Haswell, Professor of Practice in Environmental Wellbeing, Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services), University of Sydney Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been repeatedly harmed by policies and decisions that drive systematic dispossession, disempowerment, overincarceration and poverty. Janine Mohamad and Zoe ... <a title="The Beetaloo drilling program brings potential health and social issues for Aboriginal communities in remote NT" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/the-beetaloo-drilling-program-brings-potential-health-and-social-issues-for-aboriginal-communities-in-remote-nt-165392/" aria-label="Read more about The Beetaloo drilling program brings potential health and social issues for Aboriginal communities in remote NT">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liz Hicks, PhD / Dr. iur. candidate, The University of Melbourne Mick Tsikas/AAP The COVID-19 pandemic has meant huge restrictions on Australians’ ability to travel both within Australia and overseas. But until now, Australian citizens ordinarily resident in other countries have been able to return to Australia ... <a title="The federal government just made it even harder for Australians overseas to come home. Is this legal? Or reasonable?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/the-federal-government-just-made-it-even-harder-for-australians-overseas-to-come-home-is-this-legal-or-reasonable-165744/" aria-label="Read more about The federal government just made it even harder for Australians overseas to come home. Is this legal? Or reasonable?">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Russell, Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice & Legal Studies, La Trobe University Over the past 12 months, up to 1,200 people spent time in Victoria’s maximum-security women’s prison without being convicted and sentenced to a term of imprisonment. They were on remand: waiting in custody for ... <a title="Number of women on remand in Victoria soars due to outdated bail laws" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/number-of-women-on-remand-in-victoria-soars-due-to-outdated-bail-laws-165301/" aria-label="Read more about Number of women on remand in Victoria soars due to outdated bail laws">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jathan Sadowski, Research Fellow, Emerging Technologies Research Lab and CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Monash University Poster showing ‘The Leader of the Luddites’ (1812) Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA I’m a Luddite. This is not a hesitant confession, but a proud proclamation. I’m also a social scientist ... <a title="I’m a Luddite. You should be one too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/im-a-luddite-you-should-be-one-too-163172/" aria-label="Read more about I’m a Luddite. You should be one too">Read more</a>
