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China’s growing footprint on the globe threatens to trample the natural world

  • Written by: Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
imageA Chinese road-building corporation felling rainforest in the Congo Basin.Bill Laurance, Author provided

Many observers of China’s escalating global program of foreign investment and infrastructure development are crossing their fingers and hoping for the best. In an ideal world, China’s unbridled ambitions will improve economic growth,...

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Still counting: why the visual arts must do better on gender equality

  • Written by: Julie Shiels, Lecturer in Art in Public Space, RMIT University
imageAn installation view of Country & Colony, Lady Sheila Cruthers Gallery, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia. The Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art is the only dedicated public collection of art by Australian women. Lyle Branson

You have to get more than a bit mad to single-handedly launch a campaign against...

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Curious Kids: Where does the oxygen come from in the International Space Station, and why don’t they run out of air?

  • Written by: Michael J. I. Brown, Associate professor, Monash University
imageThe first piece of the International Space Station was launched in 1998.Wikimedia Commons/NASA, CC BY

This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird or wacky!


Where does the oxygen come from in...

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