
Flash droughts pull ‘alarming’ amounts of moisture from the landscape and intensify wildfires: new research
We have to stop thinking of droughts simply as a static state of low moisture. Rapid drought changes can send fire risk soaring.
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We have to stop thinking of droughts simply as a static state of low moisture. Rapid drought changes can send fire risk soaring.

This arresting drama follows the relationships between three couples holidaying on a farmstay in rural New South Wales.

New data show just four of the 19 targets are being met or are on track to be so. With such a poor track record, it’s time for a different approach.

OpenAI’s models were told to find and exploit vulnerabilities. They did — on a company that was never part of the exercise.

Judging this version against an apparent ‘original’ misunderstands both the ancient poem and how myth actually works.

Canada has a promising gender-based violence legal and policy framework, but none of it accounts for the people actually delivering frontline services.

Biodiversity policies fail because governments lack the safeguards, accountability mechanisms and political commitment needed to implement them consistently.

The game belongs to the fans. Fifa would do well to remember that.

New research found 574 people were diagnosed with TB only after death, exposing delays in recognising a preventable and treatable disease.

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Andy Burnham says his government is going to fix it for good. What would that take?

The world’s pandemic early-warning system is weakest in places affected by armed conflict, where the risk of outbreaks is often greatest.