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Artist’s impression of a group of Gigantopithecus blacki in a forest in southern China. Garcia/Joannes-Boyau (Southern Cross University)

Giant ‘kings of apes’ once roamed southern China. We solved the mystery of their extinction

Kira Westaway, Macquarie University; Marian Bailey, Southern Cross University; Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Southern Cross University; Simon Haberle, Australian National University, and Yingqi Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

What happened to the three-metre tall apes that once lived alongside orangutans? A new study suggests they were too slow to adapt to a changing world.
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A tale of two valleys: Latrobe and Hunter regions both have coal stations, but one has far worse mercury pollution

Larissa Schneider, Australian National University; Anna Lintern, Monash University; Cameron Holley, UNSW ; Darren Sinclair, University of Canberra; Neil Rose, UCL; Ruoyu Sun, and Simon Haberle, Australian National University

New research found power stations in the Latrobe Valley emit around 10 times more mercury than power stations in the Hunter Valley. The stark difference has a lot to do with regulations.
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Ban on toxic mercury looms in sugar cane farming, but Australia still has a way to go

Larissa Schneider, Australian National University; Cameron Holley, UNSW ; Darren Sinclair, University of Canberra, and Simon Haberle, Australian National University

Australia has failed to ratify an international treaty to reduce harmful mercury emissions. Mercury exposure can cause kidney damage and brain impairment, especially in children.
Industrial activities like mining, fossil fuel combustion, and cement production release mercury into the environment. Shutterstock

Plants safely store toxic mercury. Bushfires and climate change bring it back into our environment

Larissa Schneider, Australian National University; Colin Cooke, University of Alberta; Nathan D Stansell, Northern Illinois University, and Simon Haberle, Australian National University

Plants can store mercury and keep it from contaminating waterways, air and soils. Unfortunately, that mercury is released when plants burn.
Tasmania’s fires may have released mercury previously absorbed by trees. AAP Image

Mercury pollution from decades past may have been re‑released by Tasmania’s bushfires

Larissa Schneider, Australian National University; Kathryn Allen, The University of Melbourne, and Simon Haberle, Australian National University

Huon pines in Tasmania have locked up significant amounts of mercury pollution from the state’s mining industrial history. And that can be released back to the atmosphere in bushfires.
For around three million Australians, spring is rendered utterly miserable by allergic rhinitis or hay fever. Adam Moralee/Flickr

Hay fever misery prediction: some to get off lightly, others to suffer

Ed Newbigin, The University of Melbourne and Simon Haberle, Australian National University

For many, spring is the most agreeable time of year. But for one in six people (around three million Australians), this balmiest of seasons is rendered utterly miserable by allergic rhinitis or hay fever…

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