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Dec 6, 2024 | 
nature.com | Daniel J. Lunt |Jiang Zhu |Richard Wood
Current and future climate change is a major challenge facing humanity. Robustly constrained predictions of the impacts of future climate change, for a given scenario of anthropogenic carbon emissions, are needed to determine mitigation and adaptation strategies. Furthermore, calculating remaining carbon budgets to meet temperature targets is crucial for informing energy and economic policies.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
9now.nine.com.au | Richard Wood
One of Donald Trump's harshest critics from the Republican party has backed the former president to win the US election. John Bolton, who served briefly as national security adviser in the former Trump administration, told Today this morning he believed Trump had closed the gap on Democrat opponent Kamala Harris. "If I had to bet a dollar on somebody, I would bet that Trump wins.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
9now.nine.com.au | Richard Wood
Major supermarkets face fines worth billions of dollars for mistreating suppliers under a new mandatory code of conduct to be confirmed by the federal government today. The new food and grocery code of conduct will apply to supermarkets with annual revenue of $5 billion. They will face fines worth up to $10 million, or 10 per cent of revenue if they are found to be mistreating suppliers.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
9now.nine.com.au | Richard Wood
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has been accused of proposing a "nuclear fantasy" today as the debate over the Coalition's controversial energy policy continues to rage. Dutton clashed with NDIS Minister Bill Shorten on Today this morning over the costings of the Coalition proposal to build seven nuclear reactors on the sites of retiring coal-fired power plants.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
9now.nine.com.au | Richard Wood
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has insisted Australia is not heading for a recession, despite the economy recording its weakest growth in nearly three years. He was speaking with Today this morning after data released yesterday showed gross domestic product rising by just 0.1 per cent in the first three months of the year.Chalmers said he was not expecting a recession, but acknowledged the national accounts data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics was "very weak".
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May 21, 2024 | 
9now.nine.com.au | Richard Wood
Compounding pharmacists will be banned from producing replica versions of diabetes drugs such as Ozempic which are often used off-label for weight loss, the federal government announced today. Under current regulations, compounding pharmacists are allowed to individually reproduce brand name drugs when they are in short supply, enabling them to be legally copied. That means they are not subjected to the same safety regulations governing medicine approvals.
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May 14, 2024 | 
9now.nine.com.au | Richard Wood
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has failed to explain if Australians who own multiple homes will receive multiple $300 discounts on energy bills announced in the federal budget. Power cost relief was a central part of the federal government's $3.5 billion cost-of-living package included in yesterday's budget. But today it is causing the government a political headache over whether people owning more than one home will receive multiple $300 discounts.
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May 5, 2024 | 
9now.nine.com.au | Richard Wood
Police have been called in to investigate a sexism scandal at a prestigious Melbourne private school concerning male students using derogatory language to rank their female classmates. Year 11 students from Yarra Valley Grammar School at Ringwood shared a spreadsheet of photographs of female students to the messaging app Discord and ranked them in categories. The girls were ranked from top to bottom as "wifeys", "cuties", "mid", "object", "get out" and then finally "unrapable".
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
mdpi.com | Richard Wood |R. L |Mitra Nasimi
This is an early access version, the complete PDF, HTML, and XML versions will be available soon. Open AccessArticlebyMitra NasimiSciProfilesScilitPreprints.orgGoogle Scholar and Richard L. WoodSciProfilesScilitPreprints.orgGoogle Scholar * Department Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Remote Sens.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
9now.nine.com.au | Richard Wood
The celebrity-endorsed weight loss drug Ozempic is booming, but Australian regulators have signalled they want to ban pharmacies from making a copycat version. Today's medical expert Nick Coatsworth says Ozempic's encouraging results in aiding weight loss and its backing by celebrities, such as Oprah Winfrey and Sharon Osbourne, have turned it into a "wonder drug".
