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In the era of AI-generated news, readers value trust over customised content

The future of AI in journalism will depend on a balance between benefits and risk, and raising audience comfort, trust and news literacy.

Governments are hiding data, threatening democracy. Here’s how it affects you

From being custodians of public knowledge, governments are turning to architects of manufactured ignorance. Amid disappearing evidence, citizens are struggling to hold power to account

AI and the news: How it helps, fails, and why that matters

AI is reshaping the news ecosystem in the fields of search, fact-checking and personalised feeds. If used well, it can support journalism and strengthen democracy.

Critical warnings in new State of the Climate report

The world is on track to hurtle past the Paris Agreement’s global warming limits. Australia’s average warming has already increased 1.5C.

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Reusing urban runoff a solution to Faridabad’s water woes

By using urban runoff more wisely, cities could solve the twin problems of urban waterlogging and depleted urban groundwater resources.

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Why Malaysia has a stake in preserving Antarctica

The global sea level rise due to the melting ice poses a serious threat to low-lying coastal areas including those in the tropics.

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The key to future climate adaptation is to tap past knowledge

Climate-resilient agricultural knowledge has always been there among Indigenous groups, we just need to learn from them.

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Bat scan could insure against future pandemics

Even mismatched vaccines could confer some immunity against related coronaviruses. To prepare for the next pandemic, the world could build a vaccine library.

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Conservation actions work to save species

Research shows species on the brink of extinction have successfully been saved. Applying the same approaches more broadly could help the planet.

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A cat in the house saves the birds in the bush

Cats are skillful hunters. In Australia, public campaigning and local government regulation are helping to keep wildlife and domestic cats safer.

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Wildfire spreading like the plague

The way we think of fire informs how we manage it. For a long time we considered it physics, but perhaps fire is a biological phenomenon, like a virus.

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In the era of AI-generated news, readers value trust over customised content

Governments are hiding data, threatening democracy. Here’s how it affects you

AI and the news: How it helps, fails, and why that matters

Critical warnings in new State of the Climate report

Reusing urban runoff a solution to Faridabad’s water woes

Why Malaysia has a stake in preserving Antarctica

The key to future climate adaptation is to tap past knowledge

Bat scan could insure against future pandemics

Conservation actions work to save species

A cat in the house saves the birds in the bush

Wildfire spreading like the plague

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