Bushfires, drought, COVID: why rural Australians’ mental health is taking a battering
For rural people, these stresses are cumulative and contribute to higher levels of trauma, mental ill-health and in some cases, suicidal behaviour.
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Kenya’s huge railway project is causing environmental damage. Here’s how
Oil spills, cracked buildings and pollution. Just some of the environmental effects of Kenya’s massive railway project.
Small climate changes can have devastating local consequences – it happened in the Little Ice Age
Globally, the temperature changed by half a degree Celsius, but it dramatically altered the likelihood of extreme local weather.
A decade after the release of ‘The Martian’ and a decade out from the world it envisions, a planetary scientist checks in on real‑life Mars exploration
NASA hasn’t landed humans on Mars yet. But thanks to robotic missions, scientists now know more about the planet’s surface than they did when the movie was released.
Friday essay: from angry gods and fertile myths to battleships and new technologies – how the wind shapes our world
Invisible to the naked eye, the work of the wind often goes unnoticed. Yet, for millennia, this unseen force has shaped religion, trade, warfare, culture, science and more.
The world before this coronavirus and after cannot be the same
The consequences will be far more severe and long lasting in poorer countries.
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on the need to change economic course
In this podcast, Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers argues the government can have both a more stimulatory policy and a surplus going forward.