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June 13, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Trenberth, Distinguished Scholar, NCAR; Affiliate Faculty, University of Auckland Getty Images El Niño is officially here, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and with it comes a change from the La Niña weather patterns New Zealand has experienced for the past three years. ... <a title="El Niño combined with global warming means big changes for New Zealand’s weather" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/el-nino-combined-with-global-warming-means-big-changes-for-new-zealands-weather-207493/" aria-label="Read more about El Niño combined with global warming means big changes for New Zealand’s weather">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Accredited Practising Dietitian, University of South Australia Shutterstock Rice is a staple food for billions of people in Asia and Africa. It’s also a versatile ingredient for many iconic dishes from around the world, including dolmades from Greece, ... <a title="Do you need to wash rice before cooking? Here’s the science" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/do-you-need-to-wash-rice-before-cooking-heres-the-science-204692/" aria-label="Read more about Do you need to wash rice before cooking? Here’s the science">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liquan Liu, Senior lecturer, Western Sydney University Shutterstock None of us is a stranger to the downsides of the pandemic. For families with kids, kindergartens and schools closed during the lockdown, and parents had to manage schooling and working from home. Yet there is a silver lining: ... <a title="A silver lining from the pandemic: how lockdowns helped kids learn the languages their parents speak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/a-silver-lining-from-the-pandemic-how-lockdowns-helped-kids-learn-the-languages-their-parents-speak-205012/" aria-label="Read more about A silver lining from the pandemic: how lockdowns helped kids learn the languages their parents speak">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Wood, Professor, epidemiological modelling of infectious diseases, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock Each Omicron wave so far in Australia has had distinguishing features – the sharp rise and fall of BA.1, the widespread transmission among children and families in BA.2, a shift to more infections in older people ... <a title="We’re in another COVID wave. But it’s not like the others" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/were-in-another-covid-wave-but-its-not-like-the-others-206493/" aria-label="Read more about We’re in another COVID wave. But it’s not like the others">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susanne Schmidt, Professor – School of Agriculture and Food Science, The University of Queensland New Africa, Shutterstock Most food and garden waste in Australia comes from homes. Australian households waste 3.1 million tonnes of food each year. That’s more than five kilograms each household per week. Over ... <a title="The case for compost: why recycling food waste is so much better than sending it to landfill" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/the-case-for-compost-why-recycling-food-waste-is-so-much-better-than-sending-it-to-landfill-205583/" aria-label="Read more about The case for compost: why recycling food waste is so much better than sending it to landfill">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Russell Tytler, Professor of science education, Deakin University Bianca De Marchi/AAP The case for action on climate change no longer needs to be laid out. We see, almost daily, disturbing images of bushfires, floods or a mass extinction crisis. But however widespread that sense of urgency may ... <a title="How should we teach climate change in schools? It starts with ‘turbo charging’ teacher education" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/how-should-we-teach-climate-change-in-schools-it-starts-with-turbo-charging-teacher-education-207221/" aria-label="Read more about How should we teach climate change in schools? It starts with ‘turbo charging’ teacher education">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Travis Holland, Senior Lecturer in Communication, Charles Sturt University IMDB In June 1993, director Steven Spielberg released a film that unleashed a wave of technological change in film-making and simultaneously helped to revive popular interest in dinosaurs. Jurassic Park, based on Michael Crichton’s novel, spawned five blockbuster ... <a title="How Jurassic Park changed film-making and our view of dinosaurs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/how-jurassic-park-changed-film-making-and-our-view-of-dinosaurs-203147/" aria-label="Read more about How Jurassic Park changed film-making and our view of dinosaurs">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2023
PNG Post-Courier Former Papua New Guinea prime minister Peter O’Neill has been charged with three counts of giving false evidence in a national US$1.2 billion loan inquiry contrary to Section 10 of the Commission of Inquiry Act. He met reporters outside Boroko Police Station in Port Moresby today stating “this is politically motivated”. O’Neill, who ... <a title="O’Neill claims perjury charges over PNG’s UBS loan inquiry ‘political’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/oneill-claims-perjury-charges-over-pngs-ubs-loan-inquiry-political/" aria-label="Read more about O’Neill claims perjury charges over PNG’s UBS loan inquiry ‘political’">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Brittany Higgins saga has damaged almost everyone it has touched, or who’s touched it. It will forever haunt Higgins, who alleged she was raped in 2019 in a minister’s office, and Bruce Lehrmann, who denied committing the alleged assault. ... <a title="View from The Hill: Brittany Higgins story continues its damaging trail, with no end in sight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/view-from-the-hill-brittany-higgins-story-continues-its-damaging-trail-with-no-end-in-sight-207500/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Brittany Higgins story continues its damaging trail, with no end in sight">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jared Mondschein, Director of Research, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney George Walker IV/AP/AAP Since Donald Trump announced his presidential candidacy eight years ago this week, few words have been more overused than “unprecedented”. It was unprecedented for a previously unelected politician who had never served a ... <a title="Yes, federal charges against a former president are unprecedented – but so is Trump’s political power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/yes-federal-charges-against-a-former-president-are-unprecedented-but-so-is-trumps-political-power-207408/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, federal charges against a former president are unprecedented – but so is Trump’s political power">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2023
By Majeleen Yanei in Port Moresby Seventeen Papua New Guinean schoolgirls who were kidnapped, raped and held hostage by armed men in Bosavi, Hela, last Wednesday were released yesterday. The National’s source said they were released following a payment of 3300 kina (NZ$1500) and nine pigs as ransom to the gunmen. “The females were released ... <a title="PNG gunmen ‘kidnapped, raped’ 17 schoolgirls before freeing them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/png-gunmen-kidnapped-raped-17-schoolgirls-before-freeing-them/" aria-label="Read more about PNG gunmen ‘kidnapped, raped’ 17 schoolgirls before freeing them">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2023
Reports from Papua New Guinea say that 17 girls from a remote village have been held captive by a large group of armed men. The National reported this, according to an eyewitness, and the story has been corroborated by a government worker from Komo Hulia. The eyewitness said the men had been demanding $40,000 kina ... <a title="Armed gunmen kidnap 17 girls from remote PNG village – freed for ransom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/armed-gunmen-kidnap-17-girls-from-remote-png-village-freed-for-ransom/" aria-label="Read more about Armed gunmen kidnap 17 girls from remote PNG village – freed for ransom">Read more</a>
