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November 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Schwarzkopf, Associate Professor of Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images Inspired by owls and their amazing ability to find their prey by hearing alone, my team decided to test how good humans are at discerning sounds. We were surprised to find just ... <a title="Auditory illusions: new research discovers how our ears play tricks on us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/auditory-illusions-new-research-discovers-how-our-ears-play-tricks-on-us-269479/" aria-label="Read more about Auditory illusions: new research discovers how our ears play tricks on us">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Australia has ceded next year’s United Nations climate conference – COP 31 – to Turkey, but has negotiated a fall back that gives Climate Minister Chris Bowen a prominent role. Under the arrangement, Australia has also secured a pre-COP meeting ... <a title="Australia cedes COP31 but negotiates role for Chris Bowen and Pacific countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/australia-cedes-cop31-but-negotiates-role-for-chris-bowen-and-pacific-countries-270274/" aria-label="Read more about Australia cedes COP31 but negotiates role for Chris Bowen and Pacific countries">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cameron Shackell, Adjunct Fellow, Centre for Policy Futures, The University of Queensland; Queensland University of Technology Fortune Live Media, CC BY-NC-ND The world’s most valuable publicly listed company, US microchip maker Nvidia, has reported record $US57 billion ($A88 billion) revenue in the third quarter of 2025, beating ... <a title="As AI leader Nvidia posts record results, Warren Buffett’s made a surprise bet on Google" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/as-ai-leader-nvidia-posts-record-results-warren-buffetts-made-a-surprise-bet-on-google-270140/" aria-label="Read more about As AI leader Nvidia posts record results, Warren Buffett’s made a surprise bet on Google">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
While Indonesians worry about President Prabowo Subianto’s undemocratic moves, the failures of his flagship “breakfast” policy, and a faltering economy, Australia enters into another “treaty” of little import. Duncan Graham reports. COMMENTARY: By Duncan Graham Under-reported in the Australian and New Zealand media, Indonesia has been gripped by protests this year, some of them violent. ... <a title="Canberra pandering to Prabowo, while ignoring unrest in West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/canberra-pandering-to-prabowo-while-ignoring-unrest-in-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Canberra pandering to Prabowo, while ignoring unrest in West Papua">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jochen Kaempf, Associate Professor of Natural Sciences (Oceanography), Flinders University An underwater bloom of toxic algae has wreaked havoc off the coast of South Australia since mid-March 2025. After eight months, this harmful algal bloom is the longest and one of the most environmentally devastating events ever ... <a title="Australia’s algal bloom catastrophe has left more than 87,000 animals dead. What will happen this summer?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/australias-algal-bloom-catastrophe-has-left-more-than-87-000-animals-dead-what-will-happen-this-summer-269609/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s algal bloom catastrophe has left more than 87,000 animals dead. What will happen this summer?">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lynley Wallis, Professor, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University Imagine you’re in south-east Cape York Peninsula, heading north from the tiny town of Laura – population 133. You’re in a dusty four wheel drive, bumping over a rough gravel road to a remote location ... <a title="Perfectly preserved rock art site reveals 1,700 years of Aboriginal string craft" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/perfectly-preserved-rock-art-site-reveals-1-700-years-of-aboriginal-string-craft-270079/" aria-label="Read more about Perfectly preserved rock art site reveals 1,700 years of Aboriginal string craft">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joyce Siette, Associate Professor | Deputy Director, The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University Centre for Ageing Better/Unsplash For years, scientists have known that moving our bodies can sharpen our minds. Physical activity boosts blood flow to the brain, enhances neuroplasticity and reduces ... <a title="Exercising in mid and later life can reduce dementia risk – new study" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/exercising-in-mid-and-later-life-can-reduce-dementia-risk-new-study-270074/" aria-label="Read more about Exercising in mid and later life can reduce dementia risk – new study">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lynley Wallis, Professor, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University Imagine you’re in south-east Cape York Peninsula, heading north from the tiny town of Laura – population 133. You’re in a dusty four wheel drive, bumping over a rough gravel road to a remote location ... <a title="Perfectly preserved rock art site reveals 1700 years of Aboriginal string craft" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/perfectly-preserved-rock-art-site-reveals-1700-years-of-aboriginal-string-craft-270079/" aria-label="Read more about Perfectly preserved rock art site reveals 1700 years of Aboriginal string craft">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andy Hogg, Professor and Director of ACCESS-NRI, Australian National University Arash Hedieh/Unspalsh Over the past week we’ve witnessed the many political discussions that go with the territory of a COP – or, more verbosely, the “Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ... <a title="Behind every COP is a global data project that predicts Earth’s future. Here’s how it works" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/behind-every-cop-is-a-global-data-project-that-predicts-earths-future-heres-how-it-works-269893/" aria-label="Read more about Behind every COP is a global data project that predicts Earth’s future. Here’s how it works">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Manwaring, Associate Professor, Politics and Public Policy, Flinders University These are troubled times for British Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer. In July 2024, Starmer’s government swept to power on the back on a landslide win. Labour won 411/650 seats in the parliament, and had a commanding ... <a title="Is the UK headed for a new prime minister?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/is-the-uk-headed-for-a-new-prime-minister-269698/" aria-label="Read more about Is the UK headed for a new prime minister?">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jochen Kaempf, Associate Professor of Natural Sciences (Oceanography), Flinders University An underwater bloom of toxic algae has wreaked havoc off the coast of South Australia since mid-March 2025. After eight months, this harmful algal bloom is the longest and one of the most environmentally devastating events ever ... <a title="Australia’s algal bloom catastrophe has left more than 87,000 animals dead, and summer’s approaching" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/australias-algal-bloom-catastrophe-has-left-more-than-87-000-animals-dead-and-summers-approaching-269609/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s algal bloom catastrophe has left more than 87,000 animals dead, and summer’s approaching">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian Downie, Professor of Political Science, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University Pablo Porciuncula/Getty In recent years, more and more lobbyists from the oil, gas and coal industries have taken part in international climate negotiations. Estimates of lobbyist numbers have risen sharply, from 503 ... <a title="Brazil is trying to stop fossil fuel interests derailing COP30 with one simple measure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/brazil-is-trying-to-stop-fossil-fuel-interests-derailing-cop30-with-one-simple-measure-268190/" aria-label="Read more about Brazil is trying to stop fossil fuel interests derailing COP30 with one simple measure">Read more</a>
