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March 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ellen K. Mather, Adjunct associate lecturer, Flinders University A fossil extinct eagle has been found that was twice the size of the wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax), Australia’s largest living bird of prey. Michael Lee, Author provided The year is 1959. Speleologists descend a 17-metre shaft to explore ... <a title="Australia’s extinct giant eagle was big enough to snatch koalas from trees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/australias-extinct-giant-eagle-was-big-enough-to-snatch-koalas-from-trees-200341/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s extinct giant eagle was big enough to snatch koalas from trees">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Welch, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland Housing intensification in Hamilton. PCE, CC BY-SA Recent extreme weather events have provided a foretaste of how supercharged storms might threaten our future. So the release today of a new report from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the ... <a title="We’re building harder, hotter cities: it’s vital we protect and grow urban green spaces – new report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/were-building-harder-hotter-cities-its-vital-we-protect-and-grow-urban-green-spaces-new-report-201753/" aria-label="Read more about We’re building harder, hotter cities: it’s vital we protect and grow urban green spaces – new report">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jake Linsky, Researcher, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland A group of tagged minke whales forage off the coast of the West Antarctic Peninsula. Duke Marine Robotics and Remote Sensing. Taken under NMFS permit #23095. Meagre giants hide in the ice-covered bays and ... <a title="Minimum viable whale: Antarctic minke whales may be as small as a krill-eating filter feeder can get in our modern oceans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/minimum-viable-whale-antarctic-minke-whales-may-be-as-small-as-a-krill-eating-filter-feeder-can-get-in-our-modern-oceans-201772/" aria-label="Read more about Minimum viable whale: Antarctic minke whales may be as small as a krill-eating filter feeder can get in our modern oceans">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hal Pawson, Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney Whatever the result of the New South Wales election on March 25, rising housing stress is a problem the new state government will have to confront. Soaring rents and an ... <a title="The housing and homelessness crisis in NSW explained in 9 charts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/the-housing-and-homelessness-crisis-in-nsw-explained-in-9-charts-200523/" aria-label="Read more about The housing and homelessness crisis in NSW explained in 9 charts">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Kennedy, Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Sydney A group of three mustatil and later Bronze Age funerary pendants on a rocky outcrop, southeast of AlUla County. AAKSA / The Royal Commission for AlUla, Author provided Over the past five years, archaeologists have identified more than 1,600 ... <a title="Enigmatic ruins across Arabia hosted ancient ritual sacrifices" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/enigmatic-ruins-across-arabia-hosted-ancient-ritual-sacrifices-201574/" aria-label="Read more about Enigmatic ruins across Arabia hosted ancient ritual sacrifices">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Starling, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Sydney Leka Sergeeva/Shutterstock Dog ownership is a lot of furry companionship, tail wags and chasing balls, and ample unconditional love. However, some dog owners are also managing canine pals struggling with mental illness. A newly published study in PLOS ONE has ... <a title="Anxious dogs have different brains to normal dogs, brain scan study reveals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/anxious-dogs-have-different-brains-to-normal-dogs-brain-scan-study-reveals-201775/" aria-label="Read more about Anxious dogs have different brains to normal dogs, brain scan study reveals">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Raquel Peel, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland and Senior Lecturer, RMIT University Unsplash, CC BY “Going together” sounds like a romantic term from yesteryear. Today’s young people have a newer label: the “talking stage”. It happens between being introduced to someone and officially dating, and ... <a title="Stuck in a ‘talking stage’ or ‘situationship’? How young people can get more out of modern love" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/stuck-in-a-talking-stage-or-situationship-how-young-people-can-get-more-out-of-modern-love-200914/" aria-label="Read more about Stuck in a ‘talking stage’ or ‘situationship’? How young people can get more out of modern love">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jim Mann, Professor of Medicine and Director, Healthier Lives–He Oranga Hauora National Science Challenge and Co-Director, Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research Centre, University of Otago Shutterstock/Lucky Business As we emerge from the COVID pandemic, we’re grateful research evidence was there to guide us. Years of immunology and ... <a title="NZ’s evidence-based response to COVID has saved lives – we could do better when it comes to other major diseases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/nzs-evidence-based-response-to-covid-has-saved-lives-we-could-do-better-when-it-comes-to-other-major-diseases-193933/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s evidence-based response to COVID has saved lives – we could do better when it comes to other major diseases">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Romane H. Cristescu, Researcher in Koala, Detection Dogs, Conservation Genetics and Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast Supplied, Author provided Koalas are an iconic endangered species living in a fire-prone environment. This makes them an ideal subject when investigating solutions to wildfires. We explored how koalas fared ... <a title="Cultural burning is safer for koalas and better for people too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/cultural-burning-is-safer-for-koalas-and-better-for-people-too-200997/" aria-label="Read more about Cultural burning is safer for koalas and better for people too">Read more</a>
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March 15, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Lowe, Emeritus Professor, School of Science, Griffith University Within ten years, Australia could be in possession of three American-made Virginia-class nuclear submarines under the AUKUS agreement with the United States and United Kingdom. The following decade, we plan to build five next-generation nuclear submarines. To date, ... <a title="Australia hasn’t figured out low-level nuclear waste storage yet – let alone high-level waste from submarines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/15/australia-hasnt-figured-out-low-level-nuclear-waste-storage-yet-let-alone-high-level-waste-from-submarines-201781/" aria-label="Read more about Australia hasn’t figured out low-level nuclear waste storage yet – let alone high-level waste from submarines">Read more</a>
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March 15, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Director, Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre; Professor of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University Eight million Australians have experienced violence since the age of 15, according to new findings of the fourth Personal Safety Survey released today by the Australian Bureau of ... <a title="New data shows 1 in 3 women have experienced physical violence and sexual violence remains stubbornly persistent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/15/new-data-shows-1-in-3-women-have-experienced-physical-violence-and-sexual-violence-remains-stubbornly-persistent-201758/" aria-label="Read more about New data shows 1 in 3 women have experienced physical violence and sexual violence remains stubbornly persistent">Read more</a>
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March 15, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Meade, Senior Research Fellow, Auckland University of Technology Getty Images With soaring mortgage rates expected to strain household budgets, there are calls – including from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand – for the Commerce Commission to investigate bank profits. But rising profits and the widening ... <a title="Rising bank profits highlight tensions between competition watchdogs and central banks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/15/rising-bank-profits-highlight-tensions-between-competition-watchdogs-and-central-banks-201851/" aria-label="Read more about Rising bank profits highlight tensions between competition watchdogs and central banks">Read more</a>
