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Counting the costs of climate change
Open Forum | November 12, 2023Progress on climate adaptation is slowing on all fronts when it should be accelerating to catch up with rising climate change impacts and risks, according to a new United Nations Environment Programme report.
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Balancing the risks and rewards of AI
Albert Zhang | November 11, 2023The tricky balance between innovation and safety in the realm of artificial intelligence means policymakers, intelligence agencies, industry, civil society and researchers must work together to shape the future.
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The Pacific looms large in climate policy
Sarina Theys | November 11, 2023Although Pacific island countries barely contribute to global warming, they stand at the frontline
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Georgia’s lessons for Ukraine
Beqa Bochorishvili | November 11, 2023When contemplating various scenarios for how the conflict with Russia might end, Ukraine’s leaders can take clear lessons from Moscow’s brutal military campaign against another one-time Soviet state, Georgia.
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Hunting down Hamas
Charles Knight | November 10, 2023Israel’s armed forces are tightening the noose around Hamas in Gaza, but urban warfare is always slow and bloody, and clearing the terrorists’ tunnels will be a difficult job.
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From Earth to the Moon
Ayoush Lazikani | November 10, 2023In the distant wake of America’s moon landings over 50 years ago, India, Japan and other nations are now investing in missions to the Moon, but imagining travel to the Moon has been part of many cultures.
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Weapons proliferation in the age of AI
David Heslop | November 10, 2023Hostile states, terrorist groups and aggrieved individuals now have access to technologies and informational aids that used to be the stuff of science fiction, and policy makers must confront advanced weapons proliferation in the new age of AI.
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Caring for the carers
Anneliese Spiteri-Staines | November 9, 2023National Carers Week is a time we acknowledge the important but often unobserved, unpaid work of care done by 2.65 million Australians who provide support to family members or friends.
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The end of antibiotics
Allen Cheng | November 9, 2023Antibiotics have saved countless lives over the last hundred years, but a lack of development and their overuse in both human medicine and agriculture means their effectiveness is waning fast.
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The little boy is here to stay till April
Open Forum | November 9, 2023The WMO says El Niño – the climate pattern currently driving warm, dry conditions across much of Australia – is likely to peak as a strong event from November to January and continue through the Australian summer to at least April 2024.
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No middle way in the Middle East
Alex Bristow | November 8, 2023The current horrors in the Middle East were precipitated by a terrorist attack whose vicious cruelty explains why Israel fights so hard to survive – if it ever lost a war, the Israelis would lose everything, including their lives.
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Loss and damage
Isabella Massa | November 8, 2023The PIF Leaders’ Meeting is an important chance to jolt the world into action on a climate Loss and Damage Fund after decades of fighting for justice.