Climate Negotiators Turn Focus to Extraction of Critical Minerals
Nations are edging closer to sounding the alarm about the perils of extracting and processing critical minerals, as…
UN photographer Martine Perret turns lens on women of Australia’s hinterland
World-renowned photographer Martine Perret has turned her lens to Western Australia’s Midwest, bringing to life the stories of…
COP30: What Happens at COP Climate Change Summits? What’s at Stake in Brazil?
For three decades, the United Nations has been holding an annual summit on the climate known as COP,…
Interpol announces a new global fight against illegal deforestation
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Interpol and partners launched a global law enforcement effort Wednesday aimed at dismantling criminal…
Star Trek’s Bold Lessons for the United Nations
IN SPACE – FEBRUARY 27: In this handout from NASA, International Space Station astronaut Terry Virts make the…
A geo-strategic crisis for Australia
From The Barrel Bheki Gila|Published 6 minutes ago LORD Harold Samuel may have been responsible for the coinage…
Analysis: Just 28% of countries have released nature pledges a year after UN deadline
Just 28% of countries have met a UN call to submit new plans on addressing nature loss –…
Australian official to join Trump-led Gaza peace taskforce
Australia will send a Defence Force officer to a new US-led coordination centre in Israel as part of…
China’s economy can grow by up to 5% until 2030: ex-finance vice-minister Zhu
China can sustain annual growth of 4.5 to 5 per cent over its next five-year plan period, former…
Coral reefs become first environmental system on Earth to pass climate “tipping point,” report says
Coral reefs around the globe have for years suffered publicly in warming oceans, periodically making headlines when iconic…
A Chart Climate Denialists Can’t Ignore
Every now and then you come across a piece of evidence that feels strong enough to cut through…
I wanted to end my life… it saved me: JANE FRYER reveals the disturbing rise of electric shock therapy, the patients who swear by it – and the thousands left with memory loss and brain damage after having it done without consent
For many of us who don’t know better, the very mention of electric shock (or electroconvulsive) therapy (ECT)…