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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Scott Luskin, Researcher and Lecturer in Conservation Science, The University of Queensland A Southern Red Muntjac deer peering at a camera trap. Authors It’s easy to assume protected areas such as national parks conserve wildlife – that seems obvious. But what is the proof? And how ... <a title="Leakage or spillover? Conservation parks boost biodiversity outside them – but there’s a catch, new study shows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/leakage-or-spillover-conservation-parks-boost-biodiversity-outside-them-but-theres-a-catch-new-study-shows-212014/" aria-label="Read more about Leakage or spillover? Conservation parks boost biodiversity outside them – but there’s a catch, new study shows">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Australia of the 2060s will be very different from the one we know today. It will be older, with slower economic growth, a big “care” economy, and an export sector that is radically transformed due to the imperatives of ... <a title="A very different country: the Intergenerational Report’s picture of Australia in the 2060s" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/a-very-different-country-the-intergenerational-reports-picture-of-australia-in-the-2060s-212185/" aria-label="Read more about A very different country: the Intergenerational Report’s picture of Australia in the 2060s">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Theresa Larkin, Associate professor of Medical Sciences, University of Wollongong Shutterstock On social media and in wellbeing circles, people have been talking about the vagus nerve a lot. In fact, we have two vagus nerves – a left and a right – and their optimal functioning is ... <a title="Our vagus nerves help us rest, digest and restore. Can you really reset them to feel better?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/our-vagus-nerves-help-us-rest-digest-and-restore-can-you-really-reset-them-to-feel-better-210469/" aria-label="Read more about Our vagus nerves help us rest, digest and restore. Can you really reset them to feel better?">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. NZ Politics Daily: 24 August 2023 ACT Felix Desmarais (1News): ACT’s Seymour ‘happy’ another candidate left a month ago 1News: ACT candidate who compared vaccine mandates to concentration camps quits ... <a title="Newsletter: August 24 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/newsletter-august-24-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: August 24 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Plank, Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Canterbury Interventions designed to limit the spread of COVID have been rolled back around the world. In New Zealand, the government removed all remaining public health measures last week. But although the emergency is over and the disease is ... <a title="With COVID now endemic, modelling suggests targeted protection will be more effective than blanket measures" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/with-covid-now-endemic-modelling-suggests-targeted-protection-will-be-more-effective-than-blanket-measures-211819/" aria-label="Read more about With COVID now endemic, modelling suggests targeted protection will be more effective than blanket measures">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emily Reeve, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Medicine Use and Safety , Monash University Shutterstock People are living longer and with more chronic health conditions – including heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and dementia – than ever before. As societies continue to grow older, one pressing ... <a title="Taking more than 5 pills a day? ‘Deprescribing’ can prevent harm – especially for older people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/taking-more-than-5-pills-a-day-deprescribing-can-prevent-harm-especially-for-older-people-211424/" aria-label="Read more about Taking more than 5 pills a day? ‘Deprescribing’ can prevent harm – especially for older people">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Georgina Falster, Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University Shutterstock After a rare three-year La Niña event brought heavy rain and flooding to eastern Australia in 2020-22, we’re now bracing for the heat and drought of El Niño at the opposite end of the spectrum. But while the World ... <a title="Greenhouse gases are changing air flow over the Pacific Ocean – raising Australia’s risks of extreme weather" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/greenhouse-gases-are-changing-air-flow-over-the-pacific-ocean-raising-australias-risks-of-extreme-weather-211029/" aria-label="Read more about Greenhouse gases are changing air flow over the Pacific Ocean – raising Australia’s risks of extreme weather">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Isaac Gross, Lecturer in Economics, Monash University Shutterstock It is a universally acknowledged truth that interest-rate rises are always a bad thing for the average Australian household. They are just a punitive form of economic medicine we have to take from time to time, on the say-so ... <a title="High interest rates are not bad news for everyone. Just ask savers, importers and Australians heading overseas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/high-interest-rates-are-not-bad-news-for-everyone-just-ask-savers-importers-and-australians-heading-overseas-210466/" aria-label="Read more about High interest rates are not bad news for everyone. Just ask savers, importers and Australians heading overseas">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jillian Huntley, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University Andrea Jalandoni, CC BY-ND The islands of South-East Asia record a long and dynamic human history of technological innovation, migration and conflict. The region’s rock art stretches back more than 45,000 years. It’s a ... <a title="This cave on Borneo has been used for 20,000 years – and we’ve now dated rock art showing colonial resistance 400 years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/this-cave-on-borneo-has-been-used-for-20-000-years-and-weve-now-dated-rock-art-showing-colonial-resistance-400-years-ago-211273/" aria-label="Read more about This cave on Borneo has been used for 20,000 years – and we’ve now dated rock art showing colonial resistance 400 years ago">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Shutterstock Global warning threatens to have major impacts on Australia’s labour productivity, agriculture and tourism over coming decades, according to the Intergenerational Report, which makes climate change a major focus of its projections for the early 2060s. Climate change and ... <a title="Intergenerational report highlights the threat of a hotter, less productive Australia due to global warming" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/23/intergenerational-report-highlights-the-threat-of-a-hotter-less-productive-australia-due-to-global-warming-212121/" aria-label="Read more about Intergenerational report highlights the threat of a hotter, less productive Australia due to global warming">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Lucy, Deputy Science + Technology Editor Hundreds of scientists from across the country have gathered at the Australian Museum in Sydney for the presentation of the Eureka Prizes. Awarded annually since 1990, the prizes recognise outstanding contributions to science and the public understanding of science. Some ... <a title="Birdwatching, immune responses and evolutionary mapping honoured at 2023 Eureka Prizes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/23/birdwatching-immune-responses-and-evolutionary-mapping-honoured-at-2023-eureka-prizes-212102/" aria-label="Read more about Birdwatching, immune responses and evolutionary mapping honoured at 2023 Eureka Prizes">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2023
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist A Japanese government spokesperson says it is “not wilfully trying to divide the Pacific” over the Fukushima treated nuclear wastewater release. Japan is set to start discharging more than one million tonnes of treated nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean tomorrow (local time). This comes 12 years after a ... <a title="Countdown starts as Japan poised to release first batch of treated nuclear wastewater" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/23/countdown-starts-as-japan-poised-to-release-first-batch-of-treated-nuclear-wastewater/" aria-label="Read more about Countdown starts as Japan poised to release first batch of treated nuclear wastewater">Read more</a>
