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Collectively, we spend only 45 minutes daily on the activities that produce the most pollution

Why do we feel stuck in our efforts to solve the great sustainability crises of the 21st century? Between the dire need to successfully mitigate climate change while making progress on human-focused Sustainable Development Goals, the challenges of the Anthropocene — the era in which we now live — can…

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Namibia and Angola’s remote Ovahimba mountains reveal a haven for unique plants – new survey

The Kaokoveld region, covering north-western Namibia and south-western Angola, is one of the remotest areas in southern Africa. Although it’s extremely dry, it is a centre of species endemism: many species occur only there and nowhere else on earth.

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Becoming a Nobel laureate: Louis Brus on his discovery of quantum dots – podcast

Imagine a particle so small that it’s the same relative size to a football as that ball is to the planet Earth. That’s the size of a quantum dot – a type of nanocrystal that changes colour depending on its size, and was once thought impossible to actually produce.

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Solar storms could cause major damage

A new study describes how massive solar storms could destroy our electrical grids

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Mysterious burst of light and loud bang in Melbourne’s night sky could be meteorite

Eyewitnesses say their houses shook as they heard ‘loud explosion’

The Independent UK

Melbourne Got Rattled By A ‘Loud Bang’ Last Night And Everyone Is Asking WTF Was That?

Okay, it probably wasn't aliens.

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Mysterious loud bang heard in Melbourne’s north likely a meteor, expert says

Doreen and Mernda residents describe seeing flash of light followed by ‘massive explosion’ on Wednesday night

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Clouds of quartz detected high in a distant planet's atmosphere – here's what this tells us about other worlds

Quartz, also known as silica, is everywhere. This mineral is in the screen of the laptop or phone you’re reading this article on. It’s used to make computer chips, which are in everything from medical equipment to washing machines. It can be melted to produce glass.

The Conversation

Will the Earth breach its 1.5C guardrail sooner than we thought?

When the ‘godfather of climate science’ says the extraordinary heat during the northern summer points to accelerated warming, governments should listen

The Guardian - AU

Our Changing Climate and How You Can Make a Difference

In recent decades, conversations about the climate have shifted from mere casual chats to urgent global dialogues. Our planet is experiencing rapid changes, and it's up to us to acknowledge the reality and make conscious efforts to curb the negative impacts.

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NASA’s InSight Lander Just Recorded The Largest Mars Quake Ever

Data from NASA's InSight lander revealed a surprising cause for the largest Mars quake we have ever detected.

Inverse

The Last Dinner Party at EartH Hackney review: glam-rock homecoming

Midway through a sell-out lap of the UK, the rising stars played their biggest headline show in the capital yet

Evening Standard

Slow solutions to fast-moving ecological crises won’t work – changing basic human behaviours must come first

As the world grapples with multiple ecological crises, it’s clear the various responses over the past half century have largely failed. Our new research argues the priority now should be addressing the real driver of these crises – our own maladaptive behaviours.

The Conversation

Sir David Attenborough says children need more opportunities to observe nature

The naturalist’s comments come as his acclaimed show Planet Earth is moved to an earlier timeslot.

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NASA's Psyche asteroid mission: a 3.6 billion kilometre 'journey to the centre of the Earth'

Psyche was the Greek goddess of the soul, born a mere mortal and later married to Eros, the God of love. Who knows why the Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis gave her name to a celestial object he observed one night in 1852?

The Guardian - UK

David Attenborough claims the amount of planetary space humanity takes up is ‘selfish’

Speaking ahead of Planet Earth III, broadcaster claims that we need to learn to show more restraint for the sake of nature

The Canberra Times

ACT teens labelled 'terrorists' as 'hell on earth' unfolds in Gaza

Palestinians in Canberra are feeling 'isolated' and 'segregated'.

The Conversation

Foe review: a Frankenstein tale of the not-so-distant future

Science fiction is never really about the future. The best sci-fi makes use of an imagined future world to provide a critical distance from our current time; to ask questions about what we are doing rather than where we are going.

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Only 1% of chemical compounds have been discovered – here's how we search for others that could change the world

The universe is flooded with billions of chemicals, each a tiny pinprick of potential. And we’ve only identified 1% of them. Scientists believe undiscovered chemical compounds could help remove greenhouse gases, or trigger a medical breakthrough much like penicillin did.

Inverse

These Photos of 2023's Annual Solar Eclipse Are Simply Breathtaking

These amazing images showcase this past weekend's annular solar eclipse as its traversed the Americas.

The Conversation

We landed a camera on Venus before seeing parts of our own oceans – it’s time to ramp up observations closer to home

Viewed from the Voyager 1 space probe as it passed beyond the edge of the solar system, Earth and Venus might not look too different – same diameter, similar mass and distance from the Sun.

Evening Standard

Planet Earth III on BBC One review: animals dazzle against the odds in David Attenborough’s hopeful conclusion

The award-winning series’ final chapter presents stories of animals’ ingenious adaptations in the face of perilous environmental changes

The Guardian - AU

A cloud: ‘reading the earth with its blind shadow’

We wake up and look outside, practising cloud divination

The Conversation

Why is space so dark even though the universe is filled with stars?

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

The Hindu

Two-hour long maiden test flight of Gaganyaan mission to commence at 7 am on October 21

The Gaganyaan mission aims to demonstrate the capability to launch human beings (three crew members) to low earth orbit and bring them back safely to earth by landing them in either the Bay of Bengal or the Arabian Sea.

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