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January 4, 2025
Navigating the shared challenges of climate change, geostrategic tensions, political upheaval, disaster recovery and decolonisation plus a 50th birthday party, reports a BenarNews contributor’s analysis. COMMENTARY: By Tess Newton Cain Vanuatu’s devastating earthquake and dramatic political developments in Tonga and New Caledonia at the end of 2024 set the tone for the coming year in ... <a title="Pacific 2025: Vanuatu quake, Tongan and Kanaky shakeups, Trump questions set tone for coming year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/04/pacific-2025-vanuatu-quake-tongan-and-kanaky-shakeups-trump-questions-set-tone-for-coming-year/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific 2025: Vanuatu quake, Tongan and Kanaky shakeups, Trump questions set tone for coming year">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milo Gough, Lecturer in History, University of Manchester An artist’s impression of Idris Elba’s planned eco-city, Sherbro Island City. Greenfield Planners Sdn Bhd / Sherbro Alliance Partners Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following ... <a title="From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan: what do these Sierra Leone developments tell us about urban elitism?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/04/from-a-colonial-hill-town-to-idris-elbas-island-masterplan-what-do-these-sierra-leone-developments-tell-us-about-urban-elitism-233714/" aria-label="Read more about From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan: what do these Sierra Leone developments tell us about urban elitism?">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milo Gough, Lecturer in History, University of Manchester An artist’s impression of Idris Elba’s planned eco-city, Sherbro Island City. Greenfield Planners Sdn Bhd / Sherbro Alliance Partners Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following ... <a title="From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan: what two Sierra Leone developments a century apart tell us about urban elitism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/04/from-a-colonial-hill-town-to-idris-elbas-island-masterplan-what-two-sierra-leone-developments-a-century-apart-tell-us-about-urban-elitism-233714/" aria-label="Read more about From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan: what two Sierra Leone developments a century apart tell us about urban elitism">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milo Gough, Lecturer in History, University of Manchester An artist’s impression of Idris Elba’s planned eco-city, Sherbro Island City. Greenfield Planners Sdn Bhd / Sherbro Alliance Partners Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following ... <a title="From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan, what can two Sierra Leone developments a century apart tell us about urban elitism?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/04/from-a-colonial-hill-town-to-idris-elbas-island-masterplan-what-can-two-sierra-leone-developments-a-century-apart-tell-us-about-urban-elitism-233714/" aria-label="Read more about From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan, what can two Sierra Leone developments a century apart tell us about urban elitism?">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Katrina Mitchell-Kouttab As 2024 came to a close and we have stepped into a new year overshadowed by ongoing atrocities, have you stopped to consider how these events are reshaping your world? Did you notice how your future — and that of generations to ... <a title="Katrina Mitchell-Kouttab: The Palestine tragedy – why it should matter to you and our world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/03/katrina-mitchell-kouttab-the-palestine-tragedy-why-it-should-matter-to-you-and-our-world/" aria-label="Read more about Katrina Mitchell-Kouttab: The Palestine tragedy – why it should matter to you and our world">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ary Hoffmann, Professor, School of BioSciences and Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne Drosophila melanogaster. Deep Scope/Shutterstock The common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), more correctly called the vinegar fly, is a frequent visitor to ripe fruit in households around the world, where it often deposits eggs on ... <a title="‘One of the most important species for science’: how the humble fruit fly transformed 4 fields of research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/03/one-of-the-most-important-species-for-science-how-the-humble-fruit-fly-transformed-4-fields-of-research-241368/" aria-label="Read more about ‘One of the most important species for science’: how the humble fruit fly transformed 4 fields of research">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Ludewig, Professor and Head of the School of Humanities, The University of Western Australia The Burra Burra Mine, 1847. Samuel Thomas Gill / State Library of NSW About 20 minutes’ drive north of Geraldton, on Australia’s west coast, lies a hill named Mount Sommer. The little ... <a title="Genius or charlatan? The strange tale of a 19th-century polymath who left a trail of controversy across colonial Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/03/genius-or-charlatan-the-strange-tale-of-a-19th-century-polymath-who-left-a-trail-of-controversy-across-colonial-australia-242292/" aria-label="Read more about Genius or charlatan? The strange tale of a 19th-century polymath who left a trail of controversy across colonial Australia">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Konstantine Panegyres, McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, researching Greco-Roman antiquity, The University of Melbourne Imagine a summer holiday at a seaside resort, with days spent sunbathing, reading books, exploring nature and chatting with friends. Sounds like it could be anywhere in Australia or New Zealand in January, doesn’t it? ... <a title="Summer holidays haven’t changed much since ancient Greece and Rome (except maybe the sand wrestling)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/03/summer-holidays-havent-changed-much-since-ancient-greece-and-rome-except-maybe-the-sand-wrestling-243367/" aria-label="Read more about Summer holidays haven’t changed much since ancient Greece and Rome (except maybe the sand wrestling)">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Francesca Storey, Deputy Director Te Tātai Hauora o Hine – National Centre for Women’s Health Research Aotearoa, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington After committing to a global plan to eliminate cervical cancer, New Zealand is lagging behind Australia and other countries in how it ... <a title="The elimination of cervical cancer in NZ is within reach in our lifetime – but not without funding and a plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/03/the-elimination-of-cervical-cancer-in-nz-is-within-reach-in-our-lifetime-but-not-without-funding-and-a-plan-242690/" aria-label="Read more about The elimination of cervical cancer in NZ is within reach in our lifetime – but not without funding and a plan">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Moscova, Adjunct Associate Professor, Anatomy, UNSW Sydney Jari Lobo/Pexels Throughout recorded history, our hair and nails played an important role in signifying who we are and our social status. You could say, they separate the caveman from businessman. It was no surprise then that many of ... <a title="Why do some people’s hair and nails grow quicker than mine?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/03/why-do-some-peoples-hair-and-nails-grow-quicker-than-mine-241556/" aria-label="Read more about Why do some people’s hair and nails grow quicker than mine?">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Myron Zalucki, Professor in Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland Kathy Reid, CC BY-SA Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) appear to be declining not just in North America but also in Australiasia. Could this be a consequence of global change, including climate change, the intensification of agriculture, and ... <a title="Monarch butterflies are in decline in NZ and Australia – they need your help to track where they gather" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/03/monarch-butterflies-are-in-decline-in-nz-and-australia-they-need-your-help-to-track-where-they-gather-244384/" aria-label="Read more about Monarch butterflies are in decline in NZ and Australia – they need your help to track where they gather">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maria Skyllas-Kazacos, Professor Emeritus, School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Sydney As more and more solar and wind energy enters Australia’s grid, we will need ways to store it for later. We can store electricity in several different ways, from pumped hydroelectric systems to large lithium-ion battery systems. ... <a title="Australia needs better ways of storing renewable electricity for later. That’s where ‘flow batteries’ can help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/03/australia-needs-better-ways-of-storing-renewable-electricity-for-later-thats-where-flow-batteries-can-help-245570/" aria-label="Read more about Australia needs better ways of storing renewable electricity for later. That’s where ‘flow batteries’ can help">Read more</a>
