Analysis: Here is a summary of significant articles published on ForeignAffairs.co.nz on June 5, 2025.
MIL-Evening Report: Woodside’s North West Shelf approval is by no means a one-off. Here are 6 other giant gas projects to watch
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samantha Hepburn, Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University GREG WOOD/AFP via Getty Images The federal government’s decision to extend the life of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas plant in Western Australia has been condemned as a climate disaster. The gas lobby claims more gas is needed to […]
MIL-Evening Report: Unprecedented heat in the North Atlantic Ocean kickstarted Europe’s hellish 2023 summer. Now we know what caused it
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew England, Scientia Professor and Deputy Director of the ARC Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, UNSW Sydney Westend61/Getty Images In June 2023, a record-breaking marine heatwave swept across the North Atlantic Ocean, smashing previous temperature records. Soon after, deadly heatwaves broke out across large areas […]
MIL-Evening Report: Australian kids BYO lunches to school. There is a healthier way to feed students
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liesel Spencer, Associate Professor, School of Law, Western Sydney University Getty Images/ courtneyk Australian parents will be familiar with this school morning routine: hastily making sandwiches or squeezing leftovers into containers, grabbing a snack from the cupboard and a piece of fruit from the counter. This would […]
MIL-Evening Report: Bowel cancer rates are declining in people over 50. But why are they going up in younger adults?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Suzanne Mahady, Associate Professor, Gastroenterologist & Clinical Epidemiologist, Monash University Thirdman/Pexels Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in Australia, with more than 15,000 cases diagnosed annually. It’s also the second most common cause of cancer-related death. Recently, headlines have warned of an uptick in cases […]
MIL-Evening Report: Australia’s charity sector is growing – but many smaller charities are doing it tough
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margaret Faulkner, Senior Marketing Scientist, Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, University of South Australia Revenue for Australia’s charity and not-for-profit sector has reached record highs, and total donations have grown. But the story isn’t the same everywhere, and some smaller charities may be struggling. That’s according to the latest edition […]
MIL-Evening Report: Taylor Swift now owns all the music she has ever made: a copyright expert breaks it down
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wellett Potter, Lecturer in Law, University of New England On Friday, Taylor Swift announced she now owns all the music she has ever made. This reported US$360 million acquisition includes all the master recordings to her first six albums, music videos, concert films, album art, photos and […]
MIL-OSI Global: A First Nations power authority could transform electricity generation for Indigenous nations
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Christina E. Hoicka, Canada Research Chair in Urban Planning for Climate Change, Associate Professor of Geography and Civil Engineering, University of Victoria First Nations across British Columbia have developed renewable electricity projects for decades. Yet they’ve experienced significant barriers to implementing, owning and managing their own electricity supply. […]
MIL-OSI Global: Gen Z and the sustainability paradox: Why ideals and shopping habits don’t always align
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Melise Panetta, Lecturer of Marketing in the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University Often praised as the ‘sustainability generation,’ Gen Z has been at the forefront of calls for ethical production, environmental accountability and climate-conscious living. (Shutterstock) As the summer shopping season kicks off, all […]
MIL-OSI Global: Trump’s Middle East pivot aims to counter China’s rising influence
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Maria Papageorgiou, Leverhulme Early Career Researcher, School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology, Newcastle University The US president, Donald Trump, claimed he was able to secure deals totalling more than US$2 trillion (£1.5 trillion) for the US on his tour of the Gulf states in May. Trump said “there […]
MIL-OSI Global: How did humans evolve such rotten genetics?
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Laurence D. Hurst, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at The Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath MaksEvs/Shutterstock To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution’s greatest achievement. For example, humans have an […]
MIL-OSI Global: Damien Hirst at 60: a genius who never stops stretching our understanding of art and life – or a tired trickster ruined by his riches?
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Daisy Dixon, Lecturer in Philosophy, Cardiff University “I’m an artist, I have no idea about money.” Damien Hirst is never far from scandal. Perhaps best known for immersing animal corpses into formaldehyde and selling them as art, the “enfant terrible” of the 1990s Young British Artists (YBA) movement […]
MIL-OSI Global: Children need the freedom to play on driveways and streets again – here’s how to make it happen
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Debbie Watson, Professor In Child and Family Welfare, University of Bristol BearFotos/Shutterstock Children no longer play freely in driveways, on their streets or in urban parks and courtyards. In many places, children’s freedom to roam has been diminishing for generations, but the pandemic has hastened the decline of […]
MIL-OSI Global: Dry mouth, bad breath and tooth damage: the effects Ozempic and Wegovy can have on your mouth
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Adam Taylor, Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University Bad breath is a commonly reported side-effect of weight loss drugs. antoniodiaz/ Shutterstock Ozempic and Wegovy have been hailed as wonder drugs when it comes to weight loss. But as the drug has become more widely used, a number of unintended […]
MIL-OSI Global: Russia has been working on creating drones that ‘call home’, go undercover and start fires. Here’s how they work
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Marcel Plichta, PhD Candidate in the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews Russia launched its largest single drone attack of the war against Ukraine’s cities on June 1. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that they faced 472 unmanned one-way attack (OWA) drones overnight. The record may […]
MIL-OSI Global: We mapped 18,000 children’s playgrounds and revealed inequality across England
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Paul Brindley, Senior Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Sheffield Daxiao Productions / shutterstock Outside of the home, public playgrounds are the most common places for children to play and the fundamental right of every child to play is even recognised in a UN convention. Despite this, […]
MIL-OSI Global: For Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic, ‘reproduction is like a death sentence’
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Masaya Llavaneras Blanco, Assistant Professor of Development Studies, Huron University College, Western University On May 9, Lourdia Jean-Pierre, a 32-year-old Haitian migrant woman, died after giving birth in her rural home in El Ceibo, Dominican Republic. The cause of death was a postpartum hemorrhage, according to a news […]
MIL-OSI Global: The atmosphere is getting thirstier and it’s making droughts worse – new study
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Solomon Gebrechorkos, Reserach Fellow in Climate Change Attribution, University of Oxford luchschenF/Shutterstock Droughts are becoming more severe and widespread across the globe. But it’s not just changing rainfall patterns that are to blame. The atmosphere is also getting thirstier. In a new study published in Nature, my colleagues […]
MIL-OSI Global: From sovereignty to sustainability: a brief history of ocean governance
Source: The Conversation – France – By Kevin Parthenay, Professeur des Universités en science politique, membre de l’Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Université de Tours The United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC 3) will open in Nice, France, on June 9, 2025. It is the third conference of its kind, following events in New York in 2017 and […]
MIL-OSI Global: Development finance in a post-aid world: the case for country platforms
Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Richard Calland, Emeritus Associate Professor in Public Law, UCT. Visiting Adjunct Professor, WITS School of Governance; Director, Africa Programme, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge With the Trump administration slashing US Agency for International Development budgets and European nations shifting overseas development aid budgets […]
MIL-OSI Global: Memories of the good parts of using drugs can keep people hooked − altering the neurons that store them could help treat addiction
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Ana Clara Bobadilla, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University Your memories are likely stored in ensembles of neurons that fire together. PASIEKA/Science Photo Library via Getty Images Everyday human behavior is guided and shaped by the search for rewards. This includes eating tasty meals, drinking something […]