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Indigenous political candidates face less voter bias than parties might think: new research

When political parties consider potential Indigenous candidates, they often worry about voter backlash.

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Why the Middle East is being left behind by global climate finance plans

The Middle East region, home to both oil-rich economies and fragile, conflict-affected states, remains among the most underfunded in the global climate landscape.

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How a Sudanese university kept learning alive during war

The civil war in Sudan began in April 2023, causing death, hunger, displacement and destruction on a huge scale. Gihad Ibrahim, head of e-learning and senior manager at Mashreq University in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, spoke with The Conversation Africa about how his institution continued to educate thousands of students despite…

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Apocalyptic images of melting glaciers and sinking islands won’t help anyone imagine a better future

What do you picture when you think about climate change? For many of us, it is the same set of dramatic images: melting glaciers, sinking landforms, rising seas or extreme weather.

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A visual guide to 14 of the drones wreaking havoc in Ukraine, Russia and beyond

In the past five years, uncrewed aerial vehicles (drones) have become indispensable in modern warfare. The Russia–Ukraine war has accelerated their ascent: on any given day, there may be hundreds or even thousands of drones operating across the frontlines and behind them.

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Climate disasters will send many countries into a debt spiral – but there’s a way out

After years of disciplined reform and painful sacrifice, Jamaica had done what few global debt specialists thought possible. Through tough and sometimes controversial spending cuts and fiscal discipline, it slashed its debt from a staggering 150% of GDP in 2013 to just 62% by 2024.

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Is a veggie burger still a burger? A linguist explains

In October 2025, members of the European Parliament voted in favour of a bill to reserve terms such as “burger” and “sausage” for meat products. If this bill is approved by most EU member states, products made from meat alternatives or vegetables will no longer be allowed to have “burger”…

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Under Ron DeSantis’ leadership, Florida leads the nation in executions in 2025

After years of steady decline in the number of people executed in the United States, there has been a sharp reversal in 2025.

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Jane Austen perfected the love story – but kept her own independence

Jane Austen’s Paper Trail is a podcast from The Conversation celebrating 250 years since Jane Austen’s birth. In each episode, we’ll be investigating a different aspect of Austen’s personality by interrogating one of her novels with leading Austen researchers. Along the way we’ll visit locations important to Austen to uncover…

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Your kind feedback and candid criticism of our journalism

What do you need to have a productive conversation? That might seem a strange question, but the answer really matters. You can’t have a good conversation if you don’t listen properly, or keep an open mind. It also helps if you’re willing to admit what you don’t know, which in…

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How to empower teachers and help students prepare for a sustainable future

Education about climate change and sustainability is a vital part of responding to a rapidly changing world, including the negative effects of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.

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How five countries are adapting to the climate crisis

Countries around the world are facing worsening heatwaves, hurricanes, droughts and floods. If current trends continue, governments need to prepare for a much hotter world with a predicted increase in global temperatures of at least 2°C, possibly up to 3°C.

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The science of weight loss – and why your brain is wired to keep you fat

For decades, we’ve been told that weight loss is a matter of willpower: eat less, move more. But modern science has proven this isn’t actually the case.

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Remembering the day Gough Whitlam lost his job

Tuesday is the fiftieth anniversary of the Dismissal of the Whitlam government. For those who were alive at the time it’s one of those “where were you?” moments. In this podcast, the Conversation’s politics and society editor Amanda Dunn and I discuss that historic day and its impact on Australia’s…

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Office of Space Commerce faces an uncertain future amid budget cuts and new oversight

An expert talks about the Office of Space Commerce (OSC) and its role in the wider regulatory landscape affecting commercial use of outer space.

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Astronauts can get motion sick while splashing back down to Earth – virtual reality headsets could help them stay sharp

The conflict between the brain's expectation of Earth's gravity and the reality of no gravity causes space motion sickness.

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The UN climate summits are working – just not in the way their critics think

It is easy to be cynical about the annual circus of UN climate negotiations that takes place at “Cop” – the Conference of the Parties to the UN’s climate convention.

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What will the UK do in a new nuclear arms race?

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Here’s why morning exercise feels so hard

Your alarm goes off. Somehow you manage to get dressed, drag yourself to the gym, and start squatting.

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As retail workers brace for the silly season, this 20c solution could dial down customer verbal abuse

More than 1.4 million people are employed in Australian retail and fast food businesses. Sadly, it’s not always a happy or safe place to work.

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How to build mental resilience to climate change

This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine.

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How countries can be held responsible for staying within new legal climate target of 1.5°C

Global emissions need to peak this year to stay within 1.5°C of global temperature rise since pre-industrial levels. This means that starting now, countries need to emit less greenhouse gas. Emissions also need to be cut in half by 2030 to prevent the worst effects of climate change.

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Why hurricanes rarely kill in Cuba

Hours before Hurricane Melissa roared towards Cuba’s second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba, the island’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, announced that 735,000 people had been evacuated – one in every 15 Cubans. The storm had already smashed into Jamaica, the most powerful to ever strike the island, causing landslides, power failures and…

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As the Paris climate agreement turns ten, it’s showing its age

Ten years after the world agreed on an historic framework for climate action, the very features that made the Paris agreement possible are now holding it back. Designed to foster cooperation, it has instead become a system for forging agreement rather than delivering change.

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Why even pro-climate action organisations may pull in different directions

This year’s UN climate summit (Cop30) in Belém, Brazil, begins with a familiar dilemma: how can we tackle a highly political, long-term problem that involves every country of the world?

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