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By 2050, almost half of humanity may be at risk of yellow fever, dengue and Zika viruses

As the planet warms, mosquitoes find more places to thrive, enabling the increased spread of yellow fever, dengue and Zika viruses.

climate, climate change, dengue, journal, mosquito, nature, Science, zika

Climate change will cause societal collapse, probable catastrophe, and possible human extinction

Climate change is already here, argues Dr Jem Bendell. So we might as well accept the impending social collapse and get to work on how we’re going to survive without electricity and food.

climate change, environment, jem bendall, journal, Science, summary

[TRAVEL] Uluru

Nestled 450kms southwest of Alice Springs sits a sacred mound. It reaches 348m into the sky, revered for at least 30,000 years by the Yankunytjatjara and Pitjantjatjara people (the traditional owners, known collectively in their language as the Anangu) as a meeting place.

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[Travel] Tokyo – 13 years later (東京、13年後。)

Welcome to old country. Wow. This is where dreams are made of. And this is where dreams are lost. This is the land of surmounting ironies and contradictions – the land of contrasts.

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[Travel] Friday in Moscow

Based entirely on factual events occurring over the course of one Friday in Moscow.

Australia, embassy, journal, memoir, moscow, passport, russia, travel

[Travel] Kapadokya

“What’s the WiFi password?” It permeates rather opaquely through the first handful of days abroad, but it slowly fades into an irrelevant abyss.

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