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Why our coral reefs need hope With coral reefs dying due to climate change, pollution, and destructive fishing, we stand to lose some of the most important habitats on the planet. But help is coming, and with that help comes hope. 3:09 With a real danger of nearly all coral reefs disappearing within the next 50 years, work is being done to save them.VIDEO BY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ByJon Heggie Email This content is brought to you by our partner. It does not necessarily reflect the views of National Geographic or its editorial staff. In the tropical waters off the coast of Indonesia, a free-swimm...

Photo: Sergei Supinsky/AFP (Getty Images) April marked the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster—a solemn, terrifying occasion made even more severe by its overlap with another deadly, global microscopic crisis. And while tourists and researchers are now permitted to visit the 1000-square mile Exclusion Zone (including the nuclear plant’s actual control room) on certain conditions, many still stigmatize the area, with unfortunately economic reverberations echoing throughout the region. Advertisement Last week, the first, 1500 bottle batch of ATOMIK—a vodka made with apples farmed ...

Australians support mandatory COVID vaccine 10 May 2021 | 3 mins A study by The University of Western Australia and Sydney University has found three-quarters of Australians support a mandatory COVID vaccination for work, study, and travel. Mandatory vaccination is where vaccination is required if people choose to partake in particular activities or access specific entitlements, as opposed to compulsory vaccination which would require everyone to be vaccinated. The study, published in Politics, coincides with the recent announcement of an Australia and New Zealand travel bubble, with governme...

Date Time Australians support mandatory COVID-19 vaccine: survey Three-quarters of Australians would support a government requirement to be vaccinated in order to work, travel or study. This number is higher than the number of Australians who would agree to the vaccine voluntarily, a survey has found. A study by The University of Sydney and The University of Western Australia has found three-quarters of Australians would support a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for work, study and travel. It’s the first data on public attitudes towards a mandate. Australians would support a governm...

A syringe being filled wih AstraZeneca vaccine - AAP 1 of 1 5370537724001 Almost three-quarters of Australians would back a COVID-19 vaccine passport, a new poll shows, as health officials weigh up a potential nationwide policy. In the first survey of Australian attitudes to a jab mandate, 73 per cent of respondents agreed the government should make it compulsory for work, travel and study. David Smith, the lead author of the University of Sydney and University of Western Australia study, noted that was more than the 66 per cent who reported they would get the shot voluntarily. "It's a surpr...