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Flash droughts pull ‘alarming’ amounts of moisture from the landscape and intensify wildfires: new research

When catastrophic wildfires capture global headlines, such as the unprecedented blazes sweeping through southern Europe this summer or the devastating 2019–20 “Black Summer” in Australia, they are almost always preceded by severe drought. Dry vegetation and parched landscapes are necessary ingredients for infernos.

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Workplace violence is a fact of life for many care workers – why do we tolerate it?

Imagine going to work knowing you will experience some form of workplace violence on a daily or weekly basis. It would have obvious impacts on your health and wellbeing, not to mention job satisfaction.

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Less than one third of students who enrolled in fee-free TAFE since 2023 have completed courses. Is this a problem?

Fee-free TAFE has been promoted as one of the Albanese government’s key education policies to train more nurses and builders. But new course completion figures released last week have sparked debate among industry leaders about whether the policy is working.

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‘Vibe coding’ is fun and easy, but there’s a major catch

Imagine you’ve always wanted your own app. Perhaps one that tracks your household budget, organises the family shopping list or reminds you when to water your plants.

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Regime Change might be 2026’s nonfiction bestseller. Here’s why it’s essential, chilling reading

Not long after the second world war, the Jewish, German-born political philosopher Leo Strauss coined the term reductio ad Hitlerum. It suggests that simply comparing something to Adolf Hitler does not inevitably taint it with the Nazi dictator’s terrible crimes. Hitler was a vegetarian, but that doesn’t make all vegetarians…

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Chasing unpaid wages is slow and expensive. Is a new Fair Work Court the answer?

At Labor’s national conference last week, the Albanese government said it would establish a new federal Fair Work Court to provide “simpler, fairer and faster” resolution of workplace disputes.

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Closing the Gap is failing, yet again. Is it time we do away with it altogether?

Every year, the Productivity Commission reports on the progress state and federal governments are making towards closing the gap in the gross inequality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous lives.

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How an OpenAI safety test became a real-world cyberattack on the Hugging Face platform

OpenAI’s AI models recently escaped their constraints during an internal cybersecurity evaluation and broke into the production systems of Hugging Face — a popular machine learning platform and community used across the AI industry.

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What Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ reveals about the adaptable nature of myth

This article contains spoilers for Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey.’

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Canada’s infrastructure projects could damage Pacific salmon habitats

The Canadian government is proposing sweeping changes to accelerate industrial development and reduce environmental oversight. These proposed legislative, regulatory and policy reforms could significantly diminish the government’s capacity to assess environmental impacts and weaken protections for fish habitats and species at risk.

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Spain needs a legal overhaul to protect homes from fire: here’s what it can learn from Australia and Greece

On July 24, 2026, multiple forest fires spurred by an intense heatwave led Spain’s government to declare a national emergency in the Community of Madrid and the province of Ávila.

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Canada’s gender-based violence laws are improving. Frontline worker conditions are not

When it comes to gender-based violence (GBV) Canada has made legal and policy strides over the past decades, and indeed the past few years. Once viewed as a domestic matter, GBV is increasingly recognized as a public safety, public health and human rights issue.

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Conflicts can spread infectious diseases while making outbreaks harder to detect

The Ebola outbreak that emerged in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and crossed into neighbouring Uganda may have been killing people for weeks before the alarm was raised. When Médecins Sans Frontières investigated in May 2026, it reported that at least 55 people had died since the beginning of…

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Can social care ever really be fixed? Experts react to the latest in a long line of promises

The Big Conversation on Care is the latest attempt to fix England’s broken social care system. Getting a handle on this issue has been attempted no fewer than 22 times since the 1990s – but Prime Minister Andy Burnham has vowed that this time they’ll find the right answers. But…

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You have more ways to connect than ever, but deep friendship feels hard to find – here’s how to build better connections

You know what’s happening in the lives of dozens of people. A friend from school has just had a baby. Someone you follow online recently got engaged. A colleague has returned from a holiday. Messages and updates arrive constantly. Yet when you’re having a difficult week, deciding who to call…

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Hundreds of people in England died before doctors diagnosed their tuberculosis

Dave, a retired dockworker, has smoked since his teens. When he develops a persistent cough, he dismisses it as “just a smoker’s cough”.

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Gianni Infantino wants to sell the World Cup – but it’s not his to sell

It’s clear from the generally horrified reaction to Gianni Infantino’s plan to turn the World Cup into an investment vehicle that the Fifa boss has gone too far.

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Is Netanyahu’s star waning in Washington? His latest meeting with Trump suggests it may be

Appearing increasingly isolated and weakened, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to Washington this week, where he had a face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump – his eighth of the US president’s second term. Netanyahu is desperate to revive his image as the closest ally of the most powerful man in…

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Ukraine’s drone strikes are having an impact on Russia — but Russian leaders remain committed to war

In recent months, Ukrainian forces have launched drone strikes deeper into Russia and Crimea. These strikes, dubbed “long-range sanctions” by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, have predominantly hit notable military targets — oil refineries, communications hubs and industries directly funding the Russian war effort.

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Reading by ear: how audiobooks can help people with phonological dyslexia to enjoy books

“I don’t understand, I don’t get it, I’m tired.” These are phrases often heard from children with dyslexia, a developmental disorder that affects their ability to read.

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Where have all the wasps gone this summer?

Summer can be lovely – until a wasp turns up. Whether they present as an irritating picnic visitor or an uninvited loft guest, common social wasps are as much a part of our summer as festivals, sun cream and the growing despair of how to entertain children who’ve forgotten how…

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Ten simple and proven ways to reduce your exposure to pollutants in your home

Modern life exposes us to a wide range of substances. While most exposures occur at low levels, researchers like me are increasingly interested in the potential cumulative effects of certain chemicals. These include synthetic compounds, indoor air pollutants and microplastics, which can disrupt our hormone and developmental systems. Scientists are…

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How heatwaves make life harder for homeless people

Cities are getting hotter. Building materials like concrete or asphalt trap and radiate heat. Heat emissions from vehicles and air conditioning units are concentrated in urban areas, and there’s less of a breeze in built-up places.

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Kidney disease is also a brain disease. Here’s why

Generally speaking, when we think of ‘kidney disease’, we think of dialysis or a kidney transplant. But it is less well known that kidney disease, which affects more than 10 per cent of the world’s population, can have significant consequences for the functioning of other organs.

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How do teens living with disabilities in Ghana view their future? We asked them to show us

About 8% of Ghana’s population is disabled. A high percentage are adolescents, which could be linked to the country’s dominant population of young people (15 to 35 years).

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