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More Australians are worried about a recession and an increasingly selfish society than about coronavirus itself

  • Written by: Alexander Saeri, Research Fellow, BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
More Australians are worried about a recession and an increasingly selfish society than about coronavirus itselfJoel Carratt/AAP

More Australians are worried about the longer-lasting, societal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic – specifically that the health system could be overburdened and the country could enter a recession – than they are about the more immediate changes to their own lives, our new survey of 1,000 Australians reveals.

In a world...

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5 ways to understand coronavirus graphs

  • Written by: Mark Sanderson, Professor of Information Retrieval, RMIT University
5 ways to understand coronavirus graphs

Wrapping your head around the scale of a global pandemic is not easy, and the volume of stats and data can be bewildering.

What, for instance, are we to make of the fact Australia recorded just 109 new cases in its daily count for April 6? Given this figure peaked at around 400 new cases per day, does this mean the rate of infection is now tapering...

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We just spent two weeks surveying the Great Barrier Reef. What we saw was an utter tragedy

  • Written by: Terry Hughes, Distinguished Professor, James Cook University
We just spent two weeks surveying the Great Barrier Reef. What we saw was an utter tragedyAuthor supplied

The Australian summer just gone will be remembered as the moment when human-caused climate change struck hard. First came drought, then deadly bushfires, and now a bout of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef – the third in just five years. Tragically, the 2020 bleaching is severe and the most widespread we have ever...

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how the Cold War is helping the biggest fish in the sea

  • Written by: Mark Meekan, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Australian Institute of Marine Science
how the Cold War is helping the biggest fish in the seaUnited States Department of Defense/Wikimedia

It might surprise you to learn that nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War are now helping conserve whale sharks, the largest living fish.

Growing up to 18 metres – longer than the average bus – whale sharks live in all tropical oceans. In Australia, they are found off tropical coasts in the...

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