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What’s behind News Corp’s new spin on climate change?

Australia’s Murdoch-owned tabloid newspapers – including The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun and Courier Mail – have embarked on a bold new climate change campaign.

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Climate change, health and food: raising voices at the decision-making table

Deakin researchers need you to raise your voice and take us one step further towards a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.

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Holding the key to a ‘secret weapon’ against climate change: Prof Peter Macreadie and the Blue Carbon Lab

Professor Peter Macreadie is leading research into a little-known but incredibly potent natural process to sequester carbon emissions.

COVID-19 and Climate Change — literature may pave the way for collective thinking

An explorative link could help us understand the role of stories in shaping selfhoods, place, and positive futures. It also might be helpful for climate change responses.

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Would Earth be better off without us?

The environmental damage caused by humans – and its consequences – have been explored in stories for decades, and continue to be discussed today.

The Covidscape

We have entered the Covidscape. We are constantly consuming and being consumed by it. We are dreaming about it. We are desperately seeking moments of escape from it, if we are able to.

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Down to Earth: how climate change affects our wellbeing

How do humans go about saving the world? Well, fear might not be the answer.

What is climate change doing to the soil?

Climate change could be harming the thousands of microorganisms living within our soil that work to keep the earth healthy.

Hell or high water – creating pathways to reduce flood damage

With dangerous waters surging in, levees might not be the best flood control after all.

From sea to shining sink; carbon-storing making waves

With atmospheric carbon emissions (CO2) on the rise, it’s time to discover the groundbreaking potential of “biosequestration”.

Australia’s recycling is a shambles – here’s what we can do about it.

Australia’s recycling system is not as effective as it needs to be.

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Dreaming of a future worth living in

We often think of the future as a distant planet, something so far away and alien that it’s too hard to comprehend.