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August 24, 2023
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Japan’s release of more than one million tonnes of treated Fukushima nuclear wastewater into the Pacific is officially underway. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings has confirmed that the disposal started at 1pm local time today. “This is a big step and punctuating moment in the process of decommissioning,” TEPCO ... <a title="‘This is a big step’ – Japan releases nuclear wastewater into Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/this-is-a-big-step-japan-releases-nuclear-wastewater-into-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about ‘This is a big step’ – Japan releases nuclear wastewater into Pacific">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Crellin, PhD Student / FNRS Aspirant, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) VanderWolf Images, Shutterstock As the world warms and the climate changes, people are experiencing more frequent and intense extreme weather events. Just this year, heatwaves blasted southern Europe, the United States and China; wildfires lit ... <a title="Bushfires focus public attention on climate change for months, but it’s different for storms and floods" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/bushfires-focus-public-attention-on-climate-change-for-months-but-its-different-for-storms-and-floods-212096/" aria-label="Read more about Bushfires focus public attention on climate change for months, but it’s different for storms and floods">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenny Graves, Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Vice Chancellor’s Fellow, La Trobe University The Y chromosome is a never-ending source of fascination (particularly to men) because it bears genes that determine maleness and make sperm. It’s also small and seriously weird; it carries few genes and is ... <a title="The ‘weird’ male Y chromosome has finally been fully sequenced. Can we now understand how it works, and how it evolved?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/the-weird-male-y-chromosome-has-finally-been-fully-sequenced-can-we-now-understand-how-it-works-and-how-it-evolved-212112/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘weird’ male Y chromosome has finally been fully sequenced. Can we now understand how it works, and how it evolved?">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Director, Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre; Professor of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University Shutterstock There is increasing attention on the lack of progress around sexual harassment and assault on Australian university campuses. On Wednesday, Education Minister Jason Clare acknowledged community concerns, ... <a title="Sexual harassment impacts university staff – our research shows how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/sexual-harassment-impacts-university-staff-our-research-shows-how-211996/" aria-label="Read more about Sexual harassment impacts university staff – our research shows how">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
By Doddy Morris in Port Vila The 22nd Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Leaders’ Summit was declared open at the National Convention Centre in Port Vila yesterday with host Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau hailing opportunities to “galvanise our efforts as a United Melanesia”. Prime Minister Kalsakau welcomed all the delegations and said how happy and privileged ... <a title="MSG a ‘building block’ for stronger Pacific cooperation, says Kalsakau" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/msg-a-building-block-for-stronger-pacific-cooperation-says-kalsakau/" aria-label="Read more about MSG a ‘building block’ for stronger Pacific cooperation, says Kalsakau">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guineans engaged in tribal fights will face life imprisonment once Parliament has its way with the amendment of the Tribal Fights Act in October. And the PNG government is looking at amending laws to also give police additional powers and immunity under special operations to protect the lives of policemen and ... <a title="PNG to upgrade Tribal Fights Act with life in jail for ‘domestic terrorists’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/png-to-upgrade-tribal-fights-act-with-life-in-jail-for-domestic-terrorists/" aria-label="Read more about PNG to upgrade Tribal Fights Act with life in jail for ‘domestic terrorists’">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Scott Luskin, Researcher and Lecturer in Conservation Science, The University of Queensland A Southern Red Muntjac deer peering at a camera trap. Authors It’s easy to assume protected areas such as national parks conserve wildlife – that seems obvious. But what is the proof? And how ... <a title="Leakage or spillover? Conservation parks boost biodiversity outside them – but there’s a catch, new study shows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/leakage-or-spillover-conservation-parks-boost-biodiversity-outside-them-but-theres-a-catch-new-study-shows-212014/" aria-label="Read more about Leakage or spillover? Conservation parks boost biodiversity outside them – but there’s a catch, new study shows">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Australia of the 2060s will be very different from the one we know today. It will be older, with slower economic growth, a big “care” economy, and an export sector that is radically transformed due to the imperatives of ... <a title="A very different country: the Intergenerational Report’s picture of Australia in the 2060s" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/a-very-different-country-the-intergenerational-reports-picture-of-australia-in-the-2060s-212185/" aria-label="Read more about A very different country: the Intergenerational Report’s picture of Australia in the 2060s">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Theresa Larkin, Associate professor of Medical Sciences, University of Wollongong Shutterstock On social media and in wellbeing circles, people have been talking about the vagus nerve a lot. In fact, we have two vagus nerves – a left and a right – and their optimal functioning is ... <a title="Our vagus nerves help us rest, digest and restore. Can you really reset them to feel better?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/our-vagus-nerves-help-us-rest-digest-and-restore-can-you-really-reset-them-to-feel-better-210469/" aria-label="Read more about Our vagus nerves help us rest, digest and restore. Can you really reset them to feel better?">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. NZ Politics Daily: 24 August 2023 ACT Felix Desmarais (1News): ACT’s Seymour ‘happy’ another candidate left a month ago 1News: ACT candidate who compared vaccine mandates to concentration camps quits ... <a title="Newsletter: August 24 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/newsletter-august-24-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: August 24 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Plank, Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Canterbury Interventions designed to limit the spread of COVID have been rolled back around the world. In New Zealand, the government removed all remaining public health measures last week. But although the emergency is over and the disease is ... <a title="With COVID now endemic, modelling suggests targeted protection will be more effective than blanket measures" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/with-covid-now-endemic-modelling-suggests-targeted-protection-will-be-more-effective-than-blanket-measures-211819/" aria-label="Read more about With COVID now endemic, modelling suggests targeted protection will be more effective than blanket measures">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emily Reeve, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Medicine Use and Safety , Monash University Shutterstock People are living longer and with more chronic health conditions – including heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and dementia – than ever before. As societies continue to grow older, one pressing ... <a title="Taking more than 5 pills a day? ‘Deprescribing’ can prevent harm – especially for older people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/taking-more-than-5-pills-a-day-deprescribing-can-prevent-harm-especially-for-older-people-211424/" aria-label="Read more about Taking more than 5 pills a day? ‘Deprescribing’ can prevent harm – especially for older people">Read more</a>
