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January 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fiona Charlson, Conjoint NHMRC Early Career Fellow, The University of Queensland You’re scrolling through your phone and transfixed by yet more images of streets reduced to burnt debris, injured wildlife, and maps showing the scale of the fires continuing to burn. On the television in the background, ... <a title="You’re not the only one feeling helpless. Eco-anxiety can reach far beyond bushfire communities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/15/youre-not-the-only-one-feeling-helpless-eco-anxiety-can-reach-far-beyond-bushfire-communities-129453/" aria-label="Read more about You’re not the only one feeling helpless. Eco-anxiety can reach far beyond bushfire communities">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabriel da Silva, Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, University of Melbourne As bushfire smoke blankets large parts of Australia, it’s time to examine what this complex chemical mixture is made of, to better understand what it’s doing to both our bodies and the planet. I research the ... <a title="Bushfire smoke is everywhere in our cities. Here’s exactly what you are inhaling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/15/bushfire-smoke-is-everywhere-in-our-cities-heres-exactly-what-you-are-inhaling-129772/" aria-label="Read more about Bushfire smoke is everywhere in our cities. Here’s exactly what you are inhaling">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dale Nimmo, Associate professor/ARC DECRA fellow, Charles Sturt University If you’ve been following the bushfire crisis on social media and elsewhere, you may have seen reports of benevolent wombats herding other animals to shelter into their fire-proof burrows. These stories went quickly viral – probably reflecting the ... <a title="Tales of wombat ‘heroes’ have gone viral. Unfortunately, they’re not true" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/15/tales-of-wombat-heroes-have-gone-viral-unfortunately-theyre-not-true-129891/" aria-label="Read more about Tales of wombat ‘heroes’ have gone viral. Unfortunately, they’re not true">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Judith Seaboyer, Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland Public anxiety about the capacity of digital-age children and young adults to read anything longer than a screen grab has come to feel like moral panic. But there is plenty of evidence to suggest we must take such unease ... <a title="If you can read this headline, you can read a novel. Here’s how to ignore your phone and just do it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/15/if-you-can-read-this-headline-you-can-read-a-novel-heres-how-to-ignore-your-phone-and-just-do-it-116524/" aria-label="Read more about If you can read this headline, you can read a novel. Here’s how to ignore your phone and just do it">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Duygu Yengin, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Adelaide “Fake news”, the chief executive of Lufthansa has called it. But his counterpart at Air France calls it the airline industry’s “biggest challenge”. So does the president of Emirates: “It’s got to be dealt with.” What they’re talking ... <a title="Shaming people for flying won’t cut airline emissions. We need a smarter solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/15/shaming-people-for-flying-wont-cut-airline-emissions-we-need-a-smarter-solution-127257/" aria-label="Read more about Shaming people for flying won’t cut airline emissions. We need a smarter solution">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jo Caust, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), University of Melbourne Artists are again finding themselves at the receiving end of criticism over funding. A mural on the wall of a fire station funded through the Western Australia Percent for Art scheme has met with a hostile ... <a title="Artists help communities during a crisis, not hinder. Why are we still told they don’t matter?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/15/artists-help-communities-during-a-crisis-not-hinder-why-are-we-still-told-they-dont-matter-129695/" aria-label="Read more about Artists help communities during a crisis, not hinder. Why are we still told they don’t matter?">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shiva Pedram, Associate Research Fellow, University of Wollongong In recent years, experts have focused on finding better ways to improve remotely delivered mental health care. Now, virtual reality (VR) may pave the way for myriad new opportunities. Using VR for remote therapy involves conducting “face-to-face” sessions in ... <a title="Virtual reality may be the next frontier in remote mental health care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/14/virtual-reality-may-be-the-next-frontier-in-remote-mental-health-care-129187/" aria-label="Read more about Virtual reality may be the next frontier in remote mental health care">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Pappas, PhD Candidate, UNSW As fires continue to burn along Australia’s south-east, it’s impossible to ignore how climate change can wreak devastation and disrupt lives. Australia has always experienced bushfires. However, climate change means this year’s bushfires were so extreme in their ferocity and spread they ... <a title="In this new world of bushfire terror, I question whether I want to have kids" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/14/in-this-new-world-of-bushfire-terror-i-question-whether-i-want-to-have-kids-126752/" aria-label="Read more about In this new world of bushfire terror, I question whether I want to have kids">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shiva Pedram, Associate Research Fellow, University of Wollongong In recent years, experts have focused on finding better ways to improve remotely delivered mental health care. Now, virtual reality (VR) may pave the way for myriad new opportunities. Using VR for remote therapy involves conducting “face-to-face” sessions in ... <a title="Virtual reality could expand therapy options in remote areas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/14/virtual-reality-could-expand-therapy-options-in-remote-areas-129187/" aria-label="Read more about Virtual reality could expand therapy options in remote areas">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cameron Webb, Clinical Lecturer and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney Australia is in for a long, hot summer. The recent bushfires have been devastating for communities and wildlife. Drought is also impacting many regions. Understandably, people want to leave water out for thirsty birds and animals. ... <a title="You can leave water out for wildlife without attracting mosquitoes, if you take a few precautions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/14/you-can-leave-water-out-for-wildlife-without-attracting-mosquitoes-if-you-take-a-few-precautions-128631/" aria-label="Read more about You can leave water out for wildlife without attracting mosquitoes, if you take a few precautions">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karen Cummings, Lecturer in Singing, University of Wollongong “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” – Joan Didion, The White Album Theatre can be many things. It can provide a catalyst to action, help us make sense of the world, make us feel part of a ... <a title="At a performance of The White Album, I found the community I needed in a time of crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/14/at-a-performance-of-the-white-album-i-found-the-community-i-needed-in-a-time-of-crisis-129693/" aria-label="Read more about At a performance of The White Album, I found the community I needed in a time of crisis">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mike Lee, Professor in Evolutionary Biology (jointly appointed with South Australian Museum), Flinders University The scale and speed of the current bushfire crisis has caught many people off-guard, including biodiversity scientists. People are scrambling to estimate the long-term effects. It is certain that many animal species will ... <a title="Australia’s bushfires could drive more than 700 animal species to extinction. Check the numbers for yourself" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/14/australias-bushfires-could-drive-more-than-700-animal-species-to-extinction-check-the-numbers-for-yourself-129773/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s bushfires could drive more than 700 animal species to extinction. Check the numbers for yourself">Read more</a>
