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Climate change is harming the health of Australians and stressing our health system. Yet the system itself is a major generator of carbon emissions.
40+ health leaders meeting at the Better Futures Forum at UNSW Canberra today have created an ambitious implementation plan to slash health-related carbon emissions, save money, and improve patient care.
[Read more…] about Health sector responsible for 7 per cent of Australia’s carbon emissions. The federal government can fix this.Health leaders are meeting at the Better Futures Forum at UNSW Canberra today to call for urgent implementation of a national climate-health action plan.
Leaders from 40+ health and medical organisations, including the Australian Medical Association and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, will discuss the urgent priorities for the government’s proposed national climate-health plan as laid out in a joint statement.
[Read more…] about “Climate change is already killing Australians”Speakers, op eds, lived experience: media welcome at UNSW Canberra and online.
“The new government has set a new path for climate change and Australia is being welcomed back to the table by the international community,” says Lisa Cliff, Program Director of the Better Futures Forum on this week at UNSW Canberra and online.
[Read more…] about “We’re coming to Canberra this year full of optimism”50 health leaders meeting to develop an implementation plan to:
Adelaide
Planetary scientist Katarina Miljkovic is available to discuss the nature of planets in Adelaide this week. She will give a free public talk on Tuesday 6 September. It’s part of a national tour of public and school talks promoting opportunities for women in physics.
The planets in our solar system are vastly different although they all formed from the same cloud of gas and dust around a star – our sun. Why is this?
Associate Professor Katarina Miljkovic thinks the answers lie in studying how asteroids, comets and meteors bombarded the planets in the past, changing the surface conditions.
She works at Curtin University’s Space Science and Technology Centre and School of Earth and Planetary Sciences and uses data from several NASA missions.
[Read more…] about How do collisions of rocks with planets help the planets evolve?The second national Better Futures Forum, at UNSW Canberra and online on 6 and 7 September, will launch a collective commitment to an ambitious national climate agenda. One that creates regional jobs, protects the future health and prosperity of our businesses and communities, regenerates nature and underpins a booming renewable energy industry.
[Read more…] about Better Futures Forum: 6 and 7 September 2022, UNSW Canberra
National poll ranks Australia’s 33 favourite native trees
Over 265,000 votes cast throughout August
Media contacts: Laura Boland, laura@scienceinpublic.com.au,
0408 166 426; or Jane Watkins, jane@scienceinpublic.com.au,
0425 803 204
More about the winners at: www.abc.net.au/trees
Australians have chosen the river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) as their favourite native tree in ABC’s national poll.
“The river red gum is the perfect Australian tree. No two trees are the same, and each has its own personality. I love the way the twisted limbs, the gnarly hollows and dead wood, and all the scars and broken branches reflect a tough life but one well lived,” says Professor Tim Entwisle, botanist and Director and Chief Executive of Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.
[Read more…] about Give me a throne among the gum trees – river red gum crowned Australia’s favourite tree!Two of Australia’s leading stem cell researchers are available for interview to discuss their vision for healing broken hearts.
They’re part of the panel presenting at a national online event Future Medicine: Healing the Heart held by the health charity the National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia to provide people with access to experts and reliable information.
[Read more…] about How will we heal damaged hearts in the future?Media contacts: Laura Boland, laura@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0408 166 426; or Jane Watkins, jane@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0425 803 204.
Australia’s top 10 trees have come in all shapes and sizes, from the slender mountain ash to the bulgy boab. They are found in a range of environments, from the river red gum of the inland waterways to the snow gum of the high country.
Across the nation, over 80,000 votes have been cast, as Australians picked their most loved native species in the second round of voting, awarding the top 10 most loved trees, including:
Read on for more on these, including event contact details.
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