Sea state The Royal Australian Navy has just wrapped up two significant multi-navy drills. Anzac-class frigate HMAS Ballarat and oil tanker HMAS Sirius joined in on phase 2 of Exercise Malabar 2021 with India, Japan …
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Planet A A new study has recommended that 11 species of Australian bees be listed as threatened, a five-fold increase, due to the 2019–20 bushfires. Lower bee populations threaten crop production, with consequences for Australia’s …
Papua New Guinea is divided over its Covid-19 response. The virus has spread throughout the country since March and is now pushing hospitals to capacity in the nation’s worst Covid-19 surge so far, but a …
Sea state HMS Queen Elizabeth has re-entered the South China Sea despite warnings from China. The ship leads Britain’s carrier strike group on its global tour designed to showcase post-Brexit ‘Global Britain’ through more than …
Planet A The Bank of China will stop funding new coal projects abroad, following Chinese President Xi Jinping’s similar commitment to the UN General Assembly that China will stop building new foreign coal-fired power plants. …
Sea state Australia will build at least eight nuclear-powered submarines under its new ‘AUKUS’ defence pact with the United Kingdom and the United States. The new submarines will be able to operate for months without …
Planet A New research shows that rising temperatures from climate change have caused physical changes in warm-blooded species to help them dispel heat and regulate body temperature. These changes indicate generations of persistent overheating, and …
Sea state The fourth AUSINDEX maritime exercise between Australia and India is underway. The four-day training drills are taking place off Darwin for the first time, and aim to boost interoperability between the two navies’ …
Planet A A heatwave across Greenland which raised temperatures 18° Celsius higher than average has resulted in the first recorded rain on the peak of its ice cap—more than 3,000 metres above sea level. This …
Sea state All three of Australia’s Hobart-class guided missile destroyers have passed the final phase of testing and evaluation now that HMAS Sydney has returned from a successful 18-week trial deployment to the US and …
Planet A Wars, political upheavals, locust plagues and cyclical droughts in Africa have often left starvation in their wake. But without that sort of instability, Madagascar is experiencing a catastrophic famine and concern has been …
In December 2020, Indonesia’s President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo offered West Papua’s Biak island as a satellite launch site for Elon Musk’s SpaceX program. Jokowi was courting the entrepreneur after deciding that investment and technology exchange …