CoveragePost
March 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Denniss, Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Australia has 116 new coal, oil and gas projects in the pipeline. If they all proceed as planned, an extra 1.4 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases would be released into the atmosphere annually by 2030. ... <a title="Australia’s 116 new coal, oil and gas projects equate to 215 new coal power stations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/australias-116-new-coal-oil-and-gas-projects-equate-to-215-new-coal-power-stations-202135/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s 116 new coal, oil and gas projects equate to 215 new coal power stations">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
March 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic O’Sullivan, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University A referendum will be held later this year to enshrine a First Nations’ Voice to Parliament into the Australian constitution. The draft question for the ... <a title="What Australia could learn from New Zealand about Indigenous representation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/what-australia-could-learn-from-new-zealand-about-indigenous-representation-201761/" aria-label="Read more about What Australia could learn from New Zealand about Indigenous representation">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
March 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Haoyang Zhai, PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne Alexander Schimmeck/Unsplash Since its inception in 1921, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has officially promoted an atheist and materialist ideology. But belief systems in China are making a comeback – and this comeback is largely happening online. From traditional ... <a title="Taoist rituals via video call and Tarot readings over WeChat: China’s spiritual market is going digital" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/taoist-rituals-via-video-call-and-tarot-readings-over-wechat-chinas-spiritual-market-is-going-digital-199989/" aria-label="Read more about Taoist rituals via video call and Tarot readings over WeChat: China’s spiritual market is going digital">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
March 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mohiuddin Ahmed, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security, Edith Cowan University Shutterstock Google and Microsoft are on a mission to remove the drudgery from computing, by bringing next-generation AI tools as add-ons to existing services. On March 16, Microsoft announced an AI-powered system called Copilot will soon be ... <a title="Google and Microsoft are bringing AI to Word, Excel, Gmail and more. It could boost productivity for us – and cybercriminals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/google-and-microsoft-are-bringing-ai-to-word-excel-gmail-and-more-it-could-boost-productivity-for-us-and-cybercriminals-202046/" aria-label="Read more about Google and Microsoft are bringing AI to Word, Excel, Gmail and more. It could boost productivity for us – and cybercriminals">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
March 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elen Shute, Researcher, Flinders University One bird bucks the stereotype of Australia’s raucous parrots – the mysterious and critically endangered night parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis). Rather than flying around in noisy flocks or eating fruit in trees, the night parrot roosts all day in a clump of sharp ... <a title="Our mysterious night parrot has terrible vision – but we discovered it might be able to hear like an owl" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/our-mysterious-night-parrot-has-terrible-vision-but-we-discovered-it-might-be-able-to-hear-like-an-owl-200058/" aria-label="Read more about Our mysterious night parrot has terrible vision – but we discovered it might be able to hear like an owl">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
March 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Gainsbury, Deputy Director, Gambling Treatment and Research Clinic, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Sydney shutterstock The Perottett government’s promise to introduce mandatory “cashless gambling” in New South Wales by 2028 – something for which anti-gambling activists and public-health experts have long lobbied – has ... <a title="No, gamblers don’t ‘need’ cash. Our research isn’t an argument against cashless gaming reform" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/no-gamblers-dont-need-cash-our-research-isnt-an-argument-against-cashless-gaming-reform-199515/" aria-label="Read more about No, gamblers don’t ‘need’ cash. Our research isn’t an argument against cashless gaming reform">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
March 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thara Philip, E-Mobility Doctoral Researcher, The University of Queensland The number of electric vehicles (EVs) in Australia doubled in 2022 and Tesla’s Model 3 emerged as the best-selling mid-size car, the first time an EV has held this title. Despite these headlines, Australia is off to a ... <a title="Australia’s electric vehicle numbers doubled last year. What’s the impact of charging them on a power grid under strain?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/australias-electric-vehicle-numbers-doubled-last-year-whats-the-impact-of-charging-them-on-a-power-grid-under-strain-201478/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s electric vehicle numbers doubled last year. What’s the impact of charging them on a power grid under strain?">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
March 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Komesaroff, Professor of Medicine, Monash University Libkos/AP/AAP A year after Russia’s invasion, Ukraine is in ruins. At least 8,000 civilians have died, with millions displaced. Generations of infrastructure have been destroyed. Large tracts of the environment and agricultural land have been devastated. A world food shortage ... <a title="Why peace negotiations haven’t gained any traction in the Ukraine war – and how the stalemate could be broken" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/why-peace-negotiations-havent-gained-any-traction-in-the-ukraine-war-and-how-the-stalemate-could-be-broken-200913/" aria-label="Read more about Why peace negotiations haven’t gained any traction in the Ukraine war – and how the stalemate could be broken">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
March 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Fougerouse, Research Fellow, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences and The Institute for Geoscience Research (TIGeR), Curtin University Shutterstock Thirty-seven years ago, on April 26 1986, the reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown. In the weeks that followed, the deadly event ... <a title="Chernobyl was history’s worst nuclear disaster. Now it’s teaching geologists about the history of our planet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/chernobyl-was-historys-worst-nuclear-disaster-now-its-teaching-geologists-about-the-history-of-our-planet-201227/" aria-label="Read more about Chernobyl was history’s worst nuclear disaster. Now it’s teaching geologists about the history of our planet">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
March 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bronwyn Hayward, Professor of Politics, University of Canterbury Earth Negotiations Bulletin, CC BY-ND This decade is the critical moment for making deep, rapid cuts to emissions, and acting to protect people from dangerous climate impacts we can no longer avoid, according to the latest report by the ... <a title="IPCC report: the world must cut emissions and urgently adapt to the new climate realities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/ipcc-report-the-world-must-cut-emissions-and-urgently-adapt-to-the-new-climate-realities-202129/" aria-label="Read more about IPCC report: the world must cut emissions and urgently adapt to the new climate realities">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
March 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Heim, PhD researcher, University of Southern Queensland ESA Since time immemorial, humans around the world have gazed up in wonder at the night sky. The starry night sky has not only inspired countless works of music, art and poetry, but has also played an important role ... <a title="Satellites and space junk may make dark night skies brighter, hindering astronomy and hiding stars from our view" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/satellites-and-space-junk-may-make-dark-night-skies-brighter-hindering-astronomy-and-hiding-stars-from-our-view-202047/" aria-label="Read more about Satellites and space junk may make dark night skies brighter, hindering astronomy and hiding stars from our view">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
March 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andy Marks, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Strategy, Government and Alliances, Western Sydney University Bianca de Marchi/AAP A gambler would probably feel the odds favour a Labor win at the upcoming New South Wales election. But, as Scott Morrison proved in 2019, underdog status is prized in politics. Favouritism brings ... <a title="Labor is odds-on for a narrow victory in NSW election, but it is far from a sure bet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/labor-is-odds-on-for-a-narrow-victory-in-nsw-election-but-it-is-far-from-a-sure-bet-201174/" aria-label="Read more about Labor is odds-on for a narrow victory in NSW election, but it is far from a sure bet">Read more</a>
