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A psychological mechanism called ‘motivated reasoning’ helps us justify the ethical burden away.
It can be hard to grasp the changes climate change is bringing. To see it in your own life, look at the shifting seasons.
Time is running out to expand an agreement to relax patent rules on COVID vaccines. Members of the World Trade Organization should broaden its scope to treatments and tests.
In Europe, a large-scale war could cause the Baltic Sea to freeze over and severely compromise food security – potentially for decades and even centuries to come.
The same technology found in a widely used COVID-19 vaccine could be the key to helping save wild Tassie devils – without any needles.
La musique aurait-elle quelque chose de particulier pour favoriser l’engagement et la persévérance, par rapport à d’autres activités de groupe, sportives ou scolaires ?
A new study shows how teamwork, empathy and grit – all components of resilience – can be developed through group music making.
An Australian-first study found 16% of surveyed staff at one university experienced food insecurity over the past 12 months.
Shehan Karunatilaka’s Booker winning novel is a black comedy about the afterlife, a murder mystery, and a political satire set against the violent backdrop of the late-1980s Sri Lankan civil war.
Australia is one of the last nations holding out against legislating the human right to a healthy environment
Each year, enough fishing line to circle the Earth 18 times is lost at sea. This not only harms marine life, but also the livelihoods of fishers worldwide.
Evelyn Waugh’s outrageous third novel was controversial, but not for the reasons you might expect.
The Australian War Memorial’s pledge to recognise the frontier wars is an end to ‘black armband’ rhetoric. It should now investigate the Aboriginal resistance, and see it as a military operation.
New research shows Australia experienced a number of megadroughts in the last 1,000 years, We may be underestimating the severity of drought in Australia’s future.
With global oil prices falling, the end of the fuel excise discount will put Australian motorists back in familiar price territory.
UK supermarket chains have dropped the use of “best before” date labels to reduce the amount of food being thrown out when it’s still perfectly edible. It’s just as big a problem in Australia.
Tough feedback can shake our confidence. But there are healthy, helpful ways to process it. And yes, venting is one of them!
Everyone celebrates the feats of engineering that go into space exploration – but without chemistry, astronauts wouldn’t even be able to breathe.
The photographs show how climate change is disrupting our marine ecosystems – sometimes in ways previously unknown to marine scientists.
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Professor, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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Adjunct Researcher, University of Tasmania
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ARC Future Fellow in Fisheries Science, University of Tasmania
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Senior Research Associate in Physical Oceanography, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor, Writing and Literature, University of Tasmania
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Postdoctoral research associate, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor in History, University of Tasmania
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Writer, author, journalist, Associate Lecturer in English & Writing, University of Tasmania
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Professor, University of Tasmania
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Climate Research Fellow with the Climate Futures Programme, University of Tasmania
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Professor, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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Senior lecturer, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer in Criminology, University of Tasmania
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Professor, University of Tasmania
