ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on November 10, 2025.
Oceania ‘voice’ Jacinda Ardern in open letter climate crisis plea in Brazil
Asia Pacific Report In an open letter released at the Belém Climate Summit, special envoys for strategic regions have expressed their support for the COP30 presidency and for all leaders committed to advancing climate crisis action. Former New Zealand prime minister Dame Jacinda Ardern, the “voice” for Oceania, was among the seven climate envoys signing
What is myasthenia gravis, the rare disease tennis great Monica Seles lives with?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gozde Aydin, Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Former tennis star Monica Seles recently revealed she is living with the rare disease myasthenia gravis, which affects 12 in 100,000 people globally. Seles explained her first symptoms appeared suddenly around three years ago.
A centuries-old grid of holes in the Andes may have been a ‘spreadsheet’ for accounting and exchange
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacob L. Bongers, Tom Austen Brown Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sydney An aerial photo of Monte Sierpe, facing northeast. Jacob L Bongers In 1931, geologist Robert Shippee and US Navy Lieutenant George R. Johnson led one of the first aerial photography expeditions in South America. They
Is AI really coming for our jobs and wages? Past predictions of a ‘robot apocalypse’ offer some clues
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Coupe, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Canterbury Getty Images The robots were taking our jobs – or so we were told over a decade ago. The same warnings are regularly heard today about the likely impact of artificial intelligence (AI). Tech breakthroughs have long stirred
Pacific civil society warn of growing militarisation and mining pressure on the ocean
RNZ Pacific Pacific civil society groups say 2025 has been a big year for the ocean. Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) representative Maureen Penjueli said the Pacific Ocean was being hyper-militarised and there was a desire for seabed minerals to be used to build-up military capacity. “Critical minerals, whether from land
Some people choosing DIY super are getting bad advice, watchdog warns
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Di Johnson, Senior Lecturer, Finance and Financial Planning, Griffith University Maskot/Getty It’s no secret Australians are big fans of a do-it-yourself (DIY) project. How many other countries have a weekend sausage sizzle at a hardware store embedded in their national mythology? That DIY attitude may be flowing
How scientists are hacking bacteria to treat cancer, self-destruct, then vanish without a trace
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Josephine Wright, Senior Research Fellow,, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute Could engineered bacteria, including <i>Listeria monocytogenes</i>, help treat cancer? quantic69/Getty Bacteria are rapidly emerging as a new class of “living medicines” used to kill cancer cells. We’re still a long way from a “cure” for
Brazil claims to be an environmental leader. Are they?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pedro Fidelman, Associate professor in environmental policy and governance, The University of Queensland World leaders and delegates are meeting in the northern Brazilian city of Belém for COP30, this year’s major UN climate summit. This is the first time the global climate meeting has been held in
Extraordinary and occasionally inept: before The Dismissal, the Whitlam government changed Australia forever
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Arrow, Professor of History, President, Australian Historical Association, Macquarie University Wikimedia, facebook.com @Australian Labor Party, facebook.com @Whitlam Institute, Graeme Fletcher/Keystone/Getty Images, Australian Information Service/National Library of Australia When Australians of a certain age imagine Gough Whitlam, they probably think of him standing on the steps of
New interactive map shows how flammable your part of Australia is right now
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marta Yebra, Director, Bushfire Resaerch Centre of Excellence, Australian National University Vegetation moisture changes in the Lake Magenta region, Western Australia, during 2020. Red shows drier vegetation, blue tones wetter areas. Digital Earth Australia Fuel Moisture Content This year’s fire season in Australia feels unpredictable. One week
Kneecap is revitalising Irish. These 5 artists are doing the same for Indigenous languages
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jill Vaughan, Senior Lecturer, Monash University Emily Wurramara/Instagram Northern Irish hip hop trio Kneecap have been making waves, not just as musicians, but as language activists who rap in both English and their native Irish. In Belfast’s Gaeltacht Quarter, Irish is a living language. It is also
Caitlin Johnstone: The US empire keeps getting creepier
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Secretary of War™ Pete Hegseth said during a speech on Friday that the US is at “a 1939 moment” of “mounting urgency” in which “enemies gather, threats grow,” adding, “We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our
The ‘golden tonsils’ of John Laws fall silent, aged 90
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne John Laws was one of the most influential, commercially successful yet polarising figures in the history of Australian radio broadcasting. He has died at the age of 90. He was among a handful of
