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January 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katrina Schmid, Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology As we continue to contend with smoke haze in various parts of the country, many Australians may find themselves with watery, burning, irritated or red eyes. Data from countries with consistently poor air quality suggest there could also be ... <a title="Bushfire smoke is bad for your eyes, too. Here’s how you can protect them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/15/bushfire-smoke-is-bad-for-your-eyes-too-heres-how-you-can-protect-them-129898/" aria-label="Read more about Bushfire smoke is bad for your eyes, too. Here’s how you can protect them">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christine Jenkins, Professor, Respiratory Medicine, UNSW Sydney and Uni of Sydney; Head, Respiratory Group, The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney As bushfire smoke continues to pollute the air of large parts of Australia’s eastern states, some people have experienced throat irritation, coughing and breathing ... <a title="I’m struggling to breathe with all the bushfire smoke – could I have undiagnosed asthma?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/15/im-struggling-to-breathe-with-all-the-bushfire-smoke-could-i-have-undiagnosed-asthma-129903/" aria-label="Read more about I’m struggling to breathe with all the bushfire smoke – could I have undiagnosed asthma?">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael J. I. Brown, Associate professor in astronomy, Monash University “He [God] does not play dice”, quipped Albert Einstein, but for mortals chance is part of life. We cannot experience, measure and predict with absolute certainty. We may win a prize in a Christmas raffle. There’s also ... <a title="From election upsets to climate chaos, rolling the dice helps us appreciate the odds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/15/from-election-upsets-to-climate-chaos-rolling-the-dice-helps-us-appreciate-the-odds-124996/" aria-label="Read more about From election upsets to climate chaos, rolling the dice helps us appreciate the odds">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By George Newhouse, Adjunct Professor of Law, Macquarie University This summer’s bushfire apocalypse has caused many Australians to express their fury at a federal government they feel is either in denial about the impact of climate change or failing to address it sufficiently. To many, the fact the ... <a title="I’ve won cases against the government before. Here’s why I doubt a climate change class action would succeed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/15/ive-won-cases-against-the-government-before-heres-why-i-doubt-a-climate-change-class-action-would-succeed-129707/" aria-label="Read more about I’ve won cases against the government before. Here’s why I doubt a climate change class action would succeed">Read more</a>
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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>
