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Hurt by sea: how storm surges and sea-level rise make coastal life risky

  • Written by: Kathleen McInnes, Senior research scientist, CSIRO

The journal Climatic Change has published a special edition of review papers discussing major natural hazards in Australia. This article is one of a series looking at those threats.


Australia is a huge continent, but a coastal nation. About 80% of Australians live within 50km of the coast, and a sea-level rise of 1.1 metres (a high-end scenario for...

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If smoking doesn't kill, Mike Pence, neither does the plague

  • Written by: Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney

US Vice President elect Mike Pence (who has been the recipient of funding from Big Tobacco) once famously wrote:

Time for a quick reality check. Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn’t kill. In fact two out of every three smokers does [sic] not die from smoking-related illness and nine out of ten smokers...

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Underwater health check shows kelp forests are declining around the world

  • Written by: Adriana Vergés, Senior Lecturer in marine ecology, UNSW Australia

Kelp forests are declining around the world and in Australia, according to two new studies.

The first, a global study published in the journal PNAS, found that 38% of the world’s kelp forests have declined over the past 50 years.

The second, published in the same PNAS edition, investigated one cause of the declines. Kelp forests in eastern...

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Women in prison: histories of trauma and abuse highlight the need for specialised care

  • Written by: Silke Meyer, Lecturer in Domestic and Family Violence Practice, CQUniversity Australia

Australia’s female prison population has skyrocketed over the last decade, and most female prisoners have experienced abuse before they get to jail. The way the prison system treats these women risks making their trauma worse, which may boost their risk of re-offending.

Why does this matter? Apart from the fact that re-traumatising abuse...

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