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Jim Chalmers to announce $900 million fund for states to boost competition and productivity

Treasurer Jim Chalmers will announce a fund of up to $900 million for states and territories to improve productivity and competition, in a Wednesday speech urging an all-out effort to tackle one of Australia’s biggest structural economic issues.

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Mangroves in the Maldives have been drowning as sea level rises – new study

Mangrove forests have been protecting coastlines around the world against erosion and storm surges for millennia. But in 2020, the residents on many islands in the Maldives noticed that many of their mangrove forests were starting to die off. Where once these forests had been lush, now they were turning…

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A beginner’s guide to greenwash and four ways to avoid falling for it

Growing up in a Pakistani village in the 2000s, sustainability was embedded throughout my daily life. My family has always been cautious of wasting energy, gas or water because these resources are expensive. We grew most of our own vegetables and reared poultry for eggs. By just buying a few…

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How we developed sign language for ten of the trickiest climate change terms

The Conversation is proud to publish this article as British sign language-first in video form with the translation written in full beneath.

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‘Inflation is radioactive’: Trump’s victory is part of a global populist wave of voters throwing out incumbents

Was the U.S. election the latest eruption of populism across the globe? The Conversation U.S. senior politics editor Naomi Schalit brought this question to James D. Long and Victor Menaldo, two political scientists at the University of Washington who are specialists in comparative politics. They discussed how Donald Trump’s victory…

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People do care about extinct species, but not for long – new study

Lonesome George was discovered motionless in his enclosure, one morning in June 2012. Overnight, George had taken not only his final breath but the final breath of his entire species, the Pinta Island tortoise, as it faded into extinction.

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Cop29: world leaders must be held to account on climate with scientific evidence

The latest scientific assessment by an international team of climate scientists that I lead shows how human activity is warming the world more rapidly than ever before, and we are now perilously close to the Paris agreement’s 1.5°C guardrail. This evidence underscores the need for decisive climate action at the…

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Message from the Board Chair of the Academic Journalism Society regarding CEO|Editor-in-Chief opportunity for The Conversation Canada

If you are: an experienced journalist, an organizational leader with a passion for high quality journalism in the public interest and a champion for Canada’s academic sector, the opportunity to become The Conversation Canada’s next Chief Executive Officer|Editor-in-Chief awaits.

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When should you rescue a hedgehog? An expert guide

Hedgehogs are the most rescued wild animal in the UK. Here’s our guide to help you know when they need to be rescued – and when it is best to leave them alone.

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How we discovered that the ocean’s surface absorbs much more CO₂ than previously thought

The oceans play a pivotal role in drawing down atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) and have so far acted as a brake on the full impact of climate change. Current estimates of the CO₂ from the atmosphere that disappears in the ocean, commonly referred to as the ocean CO₂ sink, suggests…

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Democracy, climate change and migration – why Poland might be ‘Europe’s fulcrum country’

With Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk moving to suspend the right to asylum in the country, it couldn’t have been more timely for researchers to meet in Warsaw to discuss democracy, migration and climate change.

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Stories of gangsters who’ve left their life on the streets behind – podcast

What happens when a gangster leaves their life on the street? How do they transition to something new? In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we find out through the life stories of two people who joined gangs as young men and came out the other side.

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Government to publish secret section of Robodebt report, but timing is uncertain

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says the government plans to publish the secret section of the Robodebt royal commission report, although it is not clear when it will do so.

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Climate crisis: what Trump can (and can’t) do

Donald Trump will return to lead the world’s largest historical emitter of greenhouse gas.

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This course uses crime novels to teach critical thinking

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

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Donald Trump wins US election – what the experts say

This is a rolling guide to articles and audio published by The Conversation in the aftermath of the US presidential election.

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Bird flu has been detected in a pig in the US. Why does that matter?

The United States Department of Agriculture last week reported that a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon was infected with bird flu.

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Scents of the Middle Ages and emo nostalgia – what you should read, watch and do this week

I’ve always been a history nerd, but it wasn’t until I started working at The Conversation that I really caught the medieval bug. Inspired by our academic experts, I’ve read books, trawled online archives, and when I worked on an article about the Book of Kells earlier this year, I…

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US election: what time do the polls close and when will the results be known? An expert explains

In November 2020, when Americans last went to the polls to elect a president, it took four days after voting closed for Joe Biden to be declared the winner.

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Cop16: the world’s largest meeting to save nature has ended with no clear path ahead

Progress at the UN’s biodiversity summit, Cop16, in Cali, Colombia, has been slow. Frustratingly so.

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Nigel Farage, AI and the revolt of the squeezed middle: class politics is about to get messier than ever

The neglect of working-class voters in the past few decades has had profound consequences for British political life. Disillusioned with the two main parties, many have turned to Nigel Farage’s Reform and others are simply not voting at all.

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Research and news relevance key factors driving the future of The Conversation – edition founder

I took a walk through the beautiful campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island recently, as I was in the city for the annual gathering of the various editions of The Conversation.

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Musk’s engagement on his X account has seen ‘particularly large boost’ since he backed Trump

Research found that while engagement went up for all accounts after July, Musk enjoyed a ‘particularly large boost’

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Cooling The Earth By Blocking Sunlight Is Relatively Simple — But Should We?

The risks of solar geoengineering will be magnified if critics are ignored and researchers are allowed to self-regulate.

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US election: Trump is threatening to turn back the tide on America’s environmental laws and reverse climate progress

The Cuyahoga River, which runs through downtown Cleveland, Ohio, used to catch fire every decade or so. It started in the 1860s, when the river became choked with industrial waste, and the conflagrations continued all the way until the 1960s – the same decade that Americans got serious about environmental…

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