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Great Sandy Desert, Ngurrara Country. S. Legge/Yanunijarra AC

A patchwork of spinifex: how we returned cultural burning to the Great Sandy Desert

In the 1940s, RAAF planes took aerial photographs of the Great Sandy Desert, capturing something valuable: the patterns of burning performed by our ancestors over generations.
A morte de Hassan Nasrallah é uma vitória pessoal notável para Netanyahu, que ordenou o ataque para que pudesse reivindicar a responsabilidade direta pela ação. Foi um golpe sem precedentes para o Hezbollah e para a organização, que precisará restabelecer sua liderança. Bilal Hussein/AP

Benjamin Netanyahu está triunfante após o assassinato de Hassan Nasrallah. Mas isso mudará alguma coisa?

As fileiras de liderança do Hezbollah foram dizimadas, mas ele tem a capacidade de se restabelecer. Também há informações de que o Hezbollah possui um arsenal de 150.000 foguetes, mísseis e drones que podem ser usados para contra-atacar.
Kiwirrkurra Traditional Owner Yukultji Napangati sharing tracking knowledge with ecologist Rachel Paltridge. Nicolas Rakotopare

Reading desert sands – Indigenous wildlife tracking skills underpin vast monitoring project

Footprints, droppings, diggings and other signs left behind by animals reveal a lot to a skilled observer. Indigenous knowledge feeds into one of Australia’s largest wildlife monitoring endeavours.
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NZ’s government plans to lift a ban on gene tech outside the lab – here’s what people think

Discussions about the rules governing genetic technology in New Zealand remain complex. But they need not be marked by conflict, as long as people’s views and values are genuinely considered.

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