From the coast to the deep sea, changing oxygen levels affect marine life in different ways
Apr 25, 2024 06:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Earths atmosphere maintains a constant level of oxygen, whether it is a wintry, rainy day or hot summer. Across the ocean, oxygen concentrations vary enormously between different places and over time. Sometimes oxygen...
Apr 25, 2024 06:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Hospitals across the country have long operated under the same federal law that says they must treat and stabilize all patients when they have a medical emergency. But in states that now ban abortions and have limited...
UK smoking ban would have many benefits for public health – but only if it’s effectively implemented
Apr 25, 2024 06:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
MPs have recently voted to ban anyone in England born after 2009 from buying cigarettes, as part of the governments plan to achieve a smoke-free generation. Smoking is the single most important preventable cause of ill...
Elon Musk vs Australia: global content take-down orders can harm the internet if adopted widely
Apr 25, 2024 06:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Do Australian courts have the right to decide what foreign citizens, located overseas, view online on a foreign-owned platform? Anyone inclined to answer yes to this question should perhaps also ask themselves whether...
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight
Apr 25, 2024 06:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
In the early hours of April 15 2023, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) a Sudanese paramilitary force attacked the military airstrip in the town of Merowe and deployed troops across strategic locations in Sudans capital,...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Apr 25, 2024 06:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Ivan Vladislavić is Johannesburgs literary linkman. He tells us, in the first pages of his new book, The Near North, that before cities were lit, first by gaslight and later electricity, people of means paid torchbearers...
Apr 25, 2024 06:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Have you ever felt sick at work? Perhaps you had food poisoning or the flu. Your belly hurt, or you felt tired, making it hard to concentrate and be productive. How likely would you be to tell your boss you were unwell...
‘We have thousands of Modis’: the secret behind the BJP’s enduring success in India