Drone saves two Australian swimmers
Off the coast of Lennox Head, New South Wales (NSW), two teenage boys aged 15–17 were rescued by a new lifesaving drone in Australia. While...
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New Zealand gives Mount Taranaki same legal rights as a person
New Zealand’s Mount Taranaki is set to be granted the same legal rights as a person, making it the third geographic feature in the country...
Another report shows what we already know: the rich are getting richer
As many of you are familiar, the richest 1% of the world’s population are wealthier than over half of the world. They own more wealth...
NGO coalition warns nuclear annihilation is ‘one tantrum away’
Doesn’t take a genius to figure out who they’re referring to. The world faces a “nuclear crisis” from a “bruised ego”, the International Campaign to...
Video: Millions of migrating crabs feature on Google’s Street View
On Australia’s Christmas Island, just south of Indonesia, around 40 to 50 million red crabs migrate through the island every year due to changes in...
Australian parliament approves gay marriage in landslide vote
At the end of the parliamentary year, Australia has voted to change the Marriage Act to allow same-sex couples to marry. After years of fierce...
Tesla activates world’s largest lithium ion battery
An electricity grid in South Australia just got a pretty big big jolt. Tesla built a 100-megawatt battery and activated it on Friday 1 December....
Commercial fishing puts yellow-eyed penguin close to extinction
“Quite frankly, the yellow-eyed penguins…are on their way out” Conservation groups surveying the island sanctuary of Whenua Hou in New Zealand found that almost half...
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15,000 scientists publish ‘Warning to Humanity’ amidst threat of global warming, deforestation, and population growth
A global warning 15,000 scientists from 184 countries signed an article published by the journal BioScience, warning that people around the world are under threat...
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