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December 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Brown, Lecturer in Math and Physics, CQUniversity Australia Pixabay/Pexels Fire is an ancient technology that has helped shape human evolution. Our ancestors used fire for safety, cooking and preserving food. They gathered around a flickering fire to share stories, pass on cultural knowledge and build community. ... <a title="What actually is fire? A physicist explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/what-actually-is-fire-a-physicist-explains-269708/" aria-label="Read more about What actually is fire? A physicist explains">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Peden, NHMRC Research Fellow, School of Population Health and Co-founder UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, UNSW Sydney Kindel Media/Pexels It’s summer so kids’ playdates and birthday parties might start moving from the playground to the pool. I research how to prevent drowning. I’m also a mum ... <a title="It’s a pool party! How to stay safe around the pool with friends this summer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/its-a-pool-party-how-to-stay-safe-around-the-pool-with-friends-this-summer-268090/" aria-label="Read more about It’s a pool party! How to stay safe around the pool with friends this summer">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rumen Rachev, PhD Candidate, Edith Cowan University Thomas Koukas/Unsplash, CC BY-NC-ND As a scholar researching clouds, I have spent much of my time trying to understand the economy of the sky. Not the weather reports showing scudding rainclouds, but the deeper logic of cloud movements, their distributions ... <a title="Clouds are vital to life – but many are becoming wispy ghosts. Here’s how to see the changes above us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/clouds-are-vital-to-life-but-many-are-becoming-wispy-ghosts-heres-how-to-see-the-changes-above-us-265575/" aria-label="Read more about Clouds are vital to life – but many are becoming wispy ghosts. Here’s how to see the changes above us">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Campground managers in the North Island are hoping for sunnier weather leading up to New Year’s. Ruth Kuo Wild weather battered much of the North Island on Monday, disrupting campers, causing power outages and downing trees. In the parts of the South Island, strong winds brought down trees overnight. Has your ... <a title="Weather: Tents destroyed, trees down in heavy winds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/weather-tents-destroyed-trees-down-in-heavy-winds/" aria-label="Read more about Weather: Tents destroyed, trees down in heavy winds">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Camilla Brockett, Professor of Sport Systems Development, Victoria University Sport is one of the most climate-sensitive aspects of Australian life, yet still sits largely outside the national conversation on climate exposure. Sport attracts around 14 million participants annually in Australia. According to national data from July 2023 ... <a title="Can Australian sport ever be environmentally sustainable?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/can-australian-sport-ever-be-environmentally-sustainable-267545/" aria-label="Read more about Can Australian sport ever be environmentally sustainable?">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Dovey, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, The University of Melbourne Among his other ongoing projects, US President Donald Trump has spent much of his second term on a renovation. The Oval Office has been converted into a miniature palace festooned with gold bling, the rose ... <a title="Architecture isn’t neutral. It’s been shaping political power for millennia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/architecture-isnt-neutral-its-been-shaping-political-power-for-millennia-267742/" aria-label="Read more about Architecture isn’t neutral. It’s been shaping political power for millennia">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Burridge, Professor of Linguistics, Monash University Pinterest, Canva, Wikimedia, The Conversation, CC BY These days, human resources (HR) departments want us to use official titles for jobs. But we know the social truths of a job — how well that job gets done, whether we like ... <a title="Babblers, cops and quacks: the sometimes dark – but often amusing – origins of nicknames for jobs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/babblers-cops-and-quacks-the-sometimes-dark-but-often-amusing-origins-of-nicknames-for-jobs-270647/" aria-label="Read more about Babblers, cops and quacks: the sometimes dark – but often amusing – origins of nicknames for jobs">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Konstantine Panegyres, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0, CC BY “All I want is an income of 20,000 sesterces from secure investments”, proclaims a character in a poem by Juvenal (1st-2nd century CE), the Roman poet. Today, 20,000 ... <a title="‘Weights of gold in bullion’: how the ancients invested in precious metals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/weights-of-gold-in-bullion-how-the-ancients-invested-in-precious-metals-268207/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Weights of gold in bullion’: how the ancients invested in precious metals">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The Phoenix are now 10th following the defeat to Melbourne Victory. Masanori Udagawa/Photosport The Wellington Phoenix have fallen to their heaviest defeat of the A-League season, thumped 5-1 by Melbourne Victory at AAMI Park. Ramy Najjarine drew the Phoenix level at 1-1 midway through the first half but the hosts scored ... <a title="Phoenix crushed by Victory in A-League clash in Melbourne" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/phoenix-crushed-by-victory-in-a-league-clash-in-melbourne/" aria-label="Read more about Phoenix crushed by Victory in A-League clash in Melbourne">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Wiremu Keretene (Ngāti Hine) holds a sleeping child during the waka display at Tii Beach this morning. RNZ / Peter de Graaf After the rollercoaster year that was 2024 te ao Māori may have expected that to continue into 2025 and in many ways it did with so many stories making ... <a title="Ngā Kaupapa Hirahira o te Tau: A look back at the year that was in Te Ao Māori" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/nga-kaupapa-hirahira-o-te-tau-a-look-back-at-the-year-that-was-in-te-ao-maori/" aria-label="Read more about Ngā Kaupapa Hirahira o te Tau: A look back at the year that was in Te Ao Māori">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand PETA says video footage captured on New Zealand farms exposes the cruelty involved in sheep shearing. Supplied / PETA Asia Animal rights advocates are calling for cameras in shearing sheds, saying “welfare training” for shearers is not enough to stop sheep being mistreated. The government and the industry have this week ... <a title="Animal rights advocates call for camera surveillance in shearing sheds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/animal-rights-advocates-call-for-camera-surveillance-in-shearing-sheds/" aria-label="Read more about Animal rights advocates call for camera surveillance in shearing sheds">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Campground managers in the North Island are hoping for sunnier weather leading up to New Year’s. Ruth Kuo Campground managers in the North Island are hoping for sunnier weather leading up to New Year’s after a lashing of wind and rain. Wild weather battered much of the North Island on Monday, ... <a title="Campground managers hoping for sunnier New Year’s Eve weather" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/campground-managers-hoping-for-sunnier-new-years-eve-weather/" aria-label="Read more about Campground managers hoping for sunnier New Year’s Eve weather">Read more</a>
