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April 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Revell, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Physics, University of Canterbury CC BY-ND Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please ... <a title="Climate explained: rising carbon emissions (probably) won’t make the Earth uninhabitable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/06/climate-explained-rising-carbon-emissions-probably-wont-make-the-earth-uninhabitable-155447/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: rising carbon emissions (probably) won’t make the Earth uninhabitable">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Prafulla Shriyan, Research Fellow, Public Health Foundation of India, Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar., Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar After genome sequencing of over 10,000 COVID-19 cases in India, researchers have discovered a new variant with two new mutations which may be better at evading ... <a title="What’s the new coronavirus variant in India and how should it change their COVID response?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/06/whats-the-new-coronavirus-variant-in-india-and-how-should-it-change-their-covid-response-157957/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the new coronavirus variant in India and how should it change their COVID response?">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT – by Selwyn Manning. On Tuesday, March 30, we lodged a series of questions to the Minister of Immigration Kris Faafoi, seeking answers to allegations that 10 Chinese workers, who were detained in custody pending deportation orders, were in fact victims of a human trafficking scam. Throughout last week, the ten workers’ lawyer, ... <a title="SPECIAL REPORT: Bureaucratic Silence Surrounds Immigration New Zealand Deportation Move – Is This a Case of Human Trafficking + Black Labour?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/06/special-report-bureaucratic-silence-surrounds-immigration-new-zealand-deportation-move-is-this-a-case-of-human-trafficking-black-labour/" aria-label="Read more about SPECIAL REPORT: Bureaucratic Silence Surrounds Immigration New Zealand Deportation Move – Is This a Case of Human Trafficking + Black Labour?">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patricia A. O’Brien, Historian, Visiting Fellow in the School of History, Australian National University and Adjunct Professor in the Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University This year marks 75 years since the United States launched its immense atomic testing program in the Pacific. The historical fallout from tests ... <a title="75 years after nuclear testing in the Pacific began, the fallout continues to wreak havoc" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/06/75-years-after-nuclear-testing-in-the-pacific-began-the-fallout-continues-to-wreak-havoc-158208/" aria-label="Read more about 75 years after nuclear testing in the Pacific began, the fallout continues to wreak havoc">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University COVID has changed you, right? You use less cash, perhaps a lot less. In the first two months of the pandemic, cash withdrawals from automatic teller machines halved. Even now they are down 20%. So ... <a title="The paradox of going contactless is that we’re more in love with cash than ever" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/06/the-paradox-of-going-contactless-is-that-were-more-in-love-with-cash-than-ever-158383/" aria-label="Read more about The paradox of going contactless is that we’re more in love with cash than ever">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Tripe, Associate Professor in School of Economics and Finance, specialising in Banking, Massey University The recent announcement that Westpac is “reviewing” ownership of its New Zealand business caused some speculation the decision might be due to the bank’s lower profitability. But this would be unlikely grounds ... <a title="Hostage to fortune: why Westpac could struggle to find the right buyer for its NZ subsidiary" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/06/hostage-to-fortune-why-westpac-could-struggle-to-find-the-right-buyer-for-its-nz-subsidiary-158224/" aria-label="Read more about Hostage to fortune: why Westpac could struggle to find the right buyer for its NZ subsidiary">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Conor McAdams, Ph.D. candidate, University of Wollongong Archaeologists in the guano layer at Con Moong Cave in North Vietnam. Conor McAdams, Author provided Many caves are filled with sediments containing the excrement of birds and bats. This forms phosphate-enriched deposits known as guano — essentially, piles of ... <a title="A batshit experiment: bones cooked in bat poo lift the lid on how archaeological sites are formed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/06/a-batshit-experiment-bones-cooked-in-bat-poo-lift-the-lid-on-how-archaeological-sites-are-formed-156865/" aria-label="Read more about A batshit experiment: bones cooked in bat poo lift the lid on how archaeological sites are formed">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Mental health crisis Kyle MacDonald (Herald): Jacinda Ardern has failed us on mental health – and it’s only going to ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 6 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/06/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-6-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 6 2021">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stuart McFarlane, Researcher, Auditory Perception and Cognition, RMIT University This morning after awakening when the alarm went off, you may have experienced a feeling of grogginess and lack of alertness. This is a physiological phenomenon termed “sleep inertia”. If you experience this, you are not alone. Aboard ... <a title="Snooze blues? How using your favourite song as an alarm can help you wake up more alert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/06/snooze-blues-how-using-your-favourite-song-as-an-alarm-can-help-you-wake-up-more-alert-158233/" aria-label="Read more about Snooze blues? How using your favourite song as an alarm can help you wake up more alert">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meredith Nash, Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Tasmania As women take to the streets and make their claims of abuse and harassment public, this could be a watershed moment for Australian society and gender equality. But it is not just women who need to use this ... <a title="‘It’s not about you’: how to be a male ally" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/06/its-not-about-you-how-to-be-a-male-ally-158134/" aria-label="Read more about ‘It’s not about you’: how to be a male ally">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mary O’Keeffe, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney Do you remember hearing about the simple blood test that could tell if you had any of several different cancers? What about the Apple Watch that promised to catch your hidden heart problems before it was too late? Or ... <a title="The media is overhyping early detection tests, and this may be harming the healthy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/06/the-media-is-overhyping-early-detection-tests-and-this-may-be-harming-the-healthy-158229/" aria-label="Read more about The media is overhyping early detection tests, and this may be harming the healthy">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Michie, Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change, UCL At the end of 2020, there was a strong hope that high levels of vaccination would see humanity finally gain the upper hand over SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. In ... <a title="New COVID variants have changed the game, and vaccines will not be enough. We need global ‘maximum suppression’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/06/new-covid-variants-have-changed-the-game-and-vaccines-will-not-be-enough-we-need-global-maximum-suppression-157870/" aria-label="Read more about New COVID variants have changed the game, and vaccines will not be enough. We need global ‘maximum suppression’">Read more</a>
