Ash sits down with UNE undergrad student Tian to discuss her experience in Mongolia, as part of a palaentological dig.

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Join Cass as she sits down with Carol Mudford from Shedway, the recipient of AgriFuture's 2025 Rural Woman of the Year Award.

Carol is the founder of Shedway, an organisation that promotes mental health support in shearing sheds across Australia, and her work in this space has been recognised by AgriFuture.

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New research from the University of New South Wales has called for a $14 billion USD investment in order to protect kelp forests. These marine ecosystems are important carbon sinks, helping to promote ocean health, and they also play a role in many marine-based industries. BUT they're in danger of vanishing due to warming oceans.

We caught up with Dr Aaron Eger, the founder and program director of the Kelp Forest Alliance about why kelp is so vital to ocean health and what we can do to help it.

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For the second year in a row, the ABC is holding it's Australian Insect of the Year competition, with six bugs competing for the crown of Australia's favourite.

We catch up with UNE's very own Dr Anna Probert to discuss insects, bugs, and why people should care about them.

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Dr Hao Chen and Iser Pena from the Stevens Institute of Technology ran a simulation assessing how different groups performed, depending on the different types of personality traits represented in those groups.

We caught up with Dr Chen to discuss this research, and its implications.

For anyone interested in the study, it's available to read through the open access journal, PLOS: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0332496

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The Australian Conservation Foundation is challenging a decision by Minister for the Environment, the Hon. Murray Watt, to approve an extension of the North West Shelf Project until 2070.

We spoke with ACF General Counsel, Adam Beeson, about the proceedings.

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Now in it's 4th year, the Platy Project is recording sightings of platypus across east Australia to help collect population data.

We catch up with National Nature Campaigner Jess Abrahams from the Australian Conservation Foundation to talk about the Platy Project and how people can get involved.

The Platy Project Interactive Map can be found here: https://platy-project.acf.org.au/

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New research from Curtin University and published in Physical Review Research, has found that the chemistry of zircons found in Earth’s crust contained a geological archive of Earth’s interaction with the Milky Way.

To learn more about these findings and how this new line of research connects geology and astrophysics, we caught up with lead study author Professor Chris Kirkland.

For anyone interested in the study, it can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1103/98c3-d9j2

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