Debates over responsibility for past species loss generate heat but little light. Moving forward requires context, evidence and Indigenous knowledge.

Tūhura Otago Museum shares the natural, cultural and scientific stories of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand and the world.

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As a dried plant product, illegal tobacco is a biosecurity risk in its own right. With tonnes of it arriving undetected, ...

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Five Iranian soccer players have been granted humanitarian visas to stay in Australia. How did it get to this and what ...

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The report will inevitably be politicised. But it serves a useful function by airing grievances that will reemerge during any future public-health emergency.

Such increased offloading has raised the fear that people will become overly reliant on AI. This could have unintended consequences, such as eroding our critical thinking skills and declining our ...

Professor Merlin Crossley AM has been appointed chair of The Conversation Media Group Board. Professor Crossley is a molecular biologist and the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC) Academic Quality at UNSW ...

More than 20 years after the US military success in Iraq, the outcome of the US effort at regime change wasn’t as expected, and authoritarians with close ties to Iran now rule the country.