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January 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rajkishore Nayak, Associate Professor , RMIT University Vietnam Shutterstock Ever considered the carbon footprint of manufacturing your favourite shirt? The average cotton shirt produces 2.1 kilograms of carbon dioxide – but a polyester shirt produces over twice as much (5.5 kilograms). It might come as no surprise ... <a title="What do oranges, coffee grounds and seaweed have in common? They outshine cotton in sustainable fashion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/20/what-do-oranges-coffee-grounds-and-seaweed-have-in-common-they-outshine-cotton-in-sustainable-fashion-196391/" aria-label="Read more about What do oranges, coffee grounds and seaweed have in common? They outshine cotton in sustainable fashion">Read more</a>
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January 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Olive, Senior Research Fellow & Clinical Psychologist, Deakin University Ferne Millen/Ocean Minds, Author provided Nothing clears the mind like going for a surf. With the escapism and simplicity of riding waves, it’s no secret that surfing feels good. Now our preliminary study in children and adolescents ... <a title="Why learning to surf can be great for your mental health, according to a psychologist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/20/why-learning-to-surf-can-be-great-for-your-mental-health-according-to-a-psychologist-196946/" aria-label="Read more about Why learning to surf can be great for your mental health, according to a psychologist">Read more</a>
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January 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Sherratt, Senior Research Fellow in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Adelaide A black-tailed jackrabbit. ranchorunner/Shutterstock What do you think when you hear the word “rabbit”? Does your mind conjure images of cartoon bunnies eating carrots? Or the fluffy tails and floppy ears of pet bunnies? ... <a title="In the Year of the Rabbit, spare a thought for all these wonderful endangered bunny species" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/20/in-the-year-of-the-rabbit-spare-a-thought-for-all-these-wonderful-endangered-bunny-species-197797/" aria-label="Read more about In the Year of the Rabbit, spare a thought for all these wonderful endangered bunny species">Read more</a>
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January 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Neil G Sipe, Honorary Professor of Planning, The University of Queensland With fewer people using public transport and more working from home due to the COVID pandemic, public transport agencies need to do everything they can to encourage more people to use their services. An essential step ... <a title="Victorians won’t miss myki, but what will ‘best practice’ transport ticketing look like?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/20/victorians-wont-miss-myki-but-what-will-best-practice-transport-ticketing-look-like-197620/" aria-label="Read more about Victorians won’t miss myki, but what will ‘best practice’ transport ticketing look like?">Read more</a>
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January 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mandy Hagstrom, Senior Lecturer, Exercise Physiology. Director of Teaching and Education, School of Health Sciences, UNSW Sydney Photo by Cliff Booth/Pexels, CC BY People asking for exercise advice are usually looking for a simple answer. Do this over that. Do this many of that thing, for this ... <a title="How often should you change up your exercise routine?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/20/how-often-should-you-change-up-your-exercise-routine-194905/" aria-label="Read more about How often should you change up your exercise routine?">Read more</a>
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January 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bill Bateman, Associate professor, Curtin University Shutterstock You might think evolution is glacially slow. At a species level, that’s true. But evolution happens every time organisms produce offspring. The everyday mixing of genes – combined with mutations – throws up new generations upon which “selection pressure” will act. This ... <a title="Could feral animals in Australia become distinct species? It’s possible – and we’re seeing some early signs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/20/could-feral-animals-in-australia-become-distinct-species-its-possible-and-were-seeing-some-early-signs-197522/" aria-label="Read more about Could feral animals in Australia become distinct species? It’s possible – and we’re seeing some early signs">Read more</a>
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January 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kaya Barry, Senior Lecturer & ARC DECRA Research Fellow, Griffith University Alice and Scott* have been running their two-storey pub-turned-backpacker hostel in Queensland’s Wide Bay region, north of Brisbane, for more a decade. Over the years they’ve provided accommodation for thousands of backpackers and itinerant workers who ... <a title="Reaping what we sow: cultural ignorance undermines Australia’s recruitment of Pacific Island workers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/20/reaping-what-we-sow-cultural-ignorance-undermines-australias-recruitment-of-pacific-island-workers-197910/" aria-label="Read more about Reaping what we sow: cultural ignorance undermines Australia’s recruitment of Pacific Island workers">Read more</a>
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January 19, 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. Items of interest and importance today PARLIAMENT Thomas Coughlan (Herald): National reshuffle awaits, Labour and Nat MPs descend on Napier for awkward week (paywalled) Felix Desmarais (1News): Analysis: The three Government ... <a title="Newsletter: January 19 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/19/newsletter-january-19-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: January 19 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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January 19, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University Getty Images Well, no one saw that coming. For those in New Zealand relieved that Christmas is over because it means politics resumes, this week held the promise of a cabinet reshuffle, the possible unveiling of some meaty new policy ... <a title="‘The shoes needing filling are on the large side of big’ – Jacinda Ardern’s legacy and Labour’s new challenge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/19/the-shoes-needing-filling-are-on-the-large-side-of-big-jacinda-arderns-legacy-and-labours-new-challenge-198148/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The shoes needing filling are on the large side of big’ – Jacinda Ardern’s legacy and Labour’s new challenge">Read more</a>
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January 19, 2023
By Lucy Xia, RNZ Pacific Nearly 40 percent of Pacific people in Aotearoa New Zealand live in crowded homes — almost four times that of the general population, according to a new report. The report by Statistics New Zealand was based on data from the 2018 Census, which showed 39 percent lived in a home ... <a title="Four out of 10 Pacific people living in crowded homes, says new report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/19/four-out-of-10-pacific-people-living-in-crowded-homes-says-new-report/" aria-label="Read more about Four out of 10 Pacific people living in crowded homes, says new report">Read more</a>
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January 19, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Xiujian Peng, Senior Research Fellow, Victoria University Shutterstock China’s National Bureau of Statistics has confirmed what researchers such as myself have long suspected – that 2022 was the year China’s population turned down, the first time that has happened since the great famine brought on by Chinese ... <a title="China’s population is now inexorably shrinking, bringing forward the day the planet’s population turns down" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/19/chinas-population-is-now-inexorably-shrinking-bringing-forward-the-day-the-planets-population-turns-down-198061/" aria-label="Read more about China’s population is now inexorably shrinking, bringing forward the day the planet’s population turns down">Read more</a>
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January 19, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grant Duncan, Associate Professor, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University Jacinda Ardern with fellow MP’s after announcing her resignation on January 19 in Napier. Getty Images New Zealanders will have a new prime minister by February 7 and will go to the polls on October ... <a title="Ardern’s resignation as New Zealand prime minister is a game changer for the 2023 election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/19/arderns-resignation-as-new-zealand-prime-minister-is-a-game-changer-for-the-2023-election-198149/" aria-label="Read more about Ardern’s resignation as New Zealand prime minister is a game changer for the 2023 election">Read more</a>
