Glass Wings Blog: Year
1 trillion species, 3 billion years: how we used AI to trace the evolution of bacteria on Earth
100 Years of (Abandoned) Art Deco: A Photographic Showcase of Forgotten Art Deco from Around the World
100 years of boom and bust: a potted history of Hollywood’s long relationship with Australia
100 years of surrealism: how a French writer inspired by the avant-garde changed the world forever
100-million-year-old fossil find reveals huge flying reptile that patrolled Australia’s inland sea
105-year-old woman graduates from Stanford University 83 years after leaving campus: 'Amazing'
1.2 billion young people will need a job in the next 10 years. The World Bank is trying to help them find one
154 million lives saved in 50 years: 5 charts on the global success of vaccines
1975 was declared International Women’s Year. 50 years on, the ‘revolution in our heads’ is still being fought
2 Years of Action: Delivering on Belize’s Commitment to Ocean Conservation
2024 will be world’s hottest year on record, and the first above 1.5°C target
21-Year-Old Maori Woman Who Became New Zealand's Youngest MP Performed The Haka In Her First Speech
24 years of life lost: people placed in state care have died earlier, more violent deaths – new study
25 years into a new century and housing is less affordable than ever
3 years after the Taliban’s return, Afghanistan is a broken country swarming with terrorists again
5 years of COVID-19 underscore value of coordinated efforts to manage disease – while CDC, NIH and WHO face threats to their ability to respond to a crisis
5 years on, COVID remains NZ’s most important infectious disease – it still demands a strong response
5 years since COVID was declared a pandemic, we’re still poorly prepared for the next one
50 years ago, Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin – and Australia’s attitude to disasters changed forever
50 years later, Vietnam’s environment still bears the scars of war – and signals a dark future for Gaza and Ukraine
50 Years of Dungeons & Dragons: 10 Big Moments
60 years of progress in expanding rights is being rolled back by Trump − a pattern that’s all too familiar in US history
80 years after Benito Mussolini’s death, what can democracies today learn from his fascist rise?
A $13 billion, 30-year flop: landmark study reveals stark failure to halt Murray-Darling River decline
A 4.45 billion-year-old crystal from Mars reveals the planet had water from the beginning
A 50,000-Year-Old Block of Ice Paints the Most Chilling Picture of the Future Ever
A galactic ‘comet’ called Terzan 5 just illuminated a 100-year-old puzzle about cosmic rays
A History Lesson Star Trek Gave Us 57 Years Ago That We Failed to Learn
A new report links being homeless in Australia to dying 40 years early
A secret mathematical rule has shaped the beaks of birds and other dinosaurs for 200 million years
A tiny desert fish hits a 25 year population high in one of Earth’s harshest environments
A whale makes a comeback off Argentina's coast 100 years after vanishing
A year after the PwC scandal, the furore is gone – as well as any real appetite for structural change
A year into Javier Milei’s presidency, Argentina’s poverty hits a new high
A year of devastation: with hope and trust shattered, what can bring an end to the violence in Israel-Palestine?
Affordable nuclear? Dutton’s plan would add nearly $1,000 a year to the power bill of a family of four
Africa dramatically dried out 5,500 years ago – our new study may warn us of future climate tipping points
After 15 years, the World Wide Web Foundation is closing its doors
After 25 years, logging and bushfires, a greater glider has been spotted in Deongwar state forest
After 3 years of war, Ukrainian business leaders share their lessons on survival
After 33 Years, GameStop Shuts Down And Disappears ‘Game Informer’
After 65,000 years caring for this land, First Nations peoples are now key to Australia’s clean energy revolution
After nearly 10 years of debate, COP29’s carbon trading deal is seriously flawed
Alphonse Mucha and Art Nouveau: 100 years after its creation, his work is still a balm for a world in upheaval
Amazon deforestation in Brazil plunges 31% to lowest level in 9 years
An average 100 million native animals killed or injured each year from land clearing, mostly for beef farms
Ancient mud reveals Australia’s burning history over the past 130,000 years – and shows a way through our fiery future
Antibiotic emergency ‘could claim 40 million lives in next 25 years’
Apparel industry leaks millions of tons of plastic into environment each year, study finds
Aristotle, Aelian and the giant octopus: the earliest ‘citizen science’ goes back more than 2,000 years
Aussie Gov’t: Age Verification Went From ‘Privacy Nightmare’ To Mandatory In A Year
Australasian bittern returns to Lagoon of Islands for first time in 40 years after damming damage reversed
Australia has led the way regulating gene technology for over 20 years. Here’s how it should apply that to AI
Australia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling
Australian amber has revealed ‘living fossils’ traced back to Gondwana 42 million years ago
Australian artists only earn $23,200 a year from their art – and are key financial investors in keeping the industry afloat
Australian coal mine emissions accounting trick could be hiding more than 10 million tonnes a year
Australian Geographic nature photographer of the year 2024 – in pictures
The Australian Securities Exchange CHESS blockchain: seven years of sunk cost fallacy
Australians should be angry about another year of climate inaction. But don’t let your anger turn into despair
Australia's black cockatoos could be extinct in 20 years. Can local efforts save them?
Baby beavers born in urban London for the first time in over 400 years
Badger admiring art wins wildlife photographer of the year public vote
Band Aid sang ‘feed the world’ 40 years ago – where is hunger still an issue today?
Barcelona records lowest nitrogen dioxide levels in 25 years
Bird Photographer of the Year 2024 winners – in pictures
‘Bombs and bullets were like rain’: 50 years on from the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam war
Boxing Day tsunami: here’s what we have learned in the 20 years since the deadliest natural disaster in modern history
Bringing the river into the gallery and the future: reimagining Birrarung 50 years from now
California to get first new national marine sanctuary in 32 years, banning offshore oil drilling along miles of coast
California’s first new national marine sanctuary in 32 years to ban offshore oil drilling along 100 miles of coastline
Carnivorous dinosaurs thrived in Australia 120 million years ago, new fossils show
CDC Recommends Multi-layered Protection Against COVID-19 as it recognises SARS-CoV-2 is a Year-round Threat
"Children of Paradise" is the greatest film to come out of France, even 80 years on
China’s economy took centre stage in Xi’s new year address, spinning slow growth as a ‘remarkable’ achievement
Chinese woman jailed for reporting on Covid in Wuhan to be freed after four years
City Libraries Eliminated Late Fees Three Years Ago — How Has it Gone?
Climate warning as world’s rivers dry up at fastest rate for 30 years
Coalition’s nuclear plan would consume an extra Sydney Harbour’s worth of water a year, Labor says
Coca-Cola plastic waste in oceans expected to reach 602m kilograms a year by 2030
Colombia deforestation fell to 23-year low in 2023
Compulsory voting in Australia is 100 years old. We should celebrate how special it makes our democracy
Could humanity be extinct within 10,000 years? A new book is the wake up call our species needs
COVID 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting
COVID infections are causing drops in IQ and years of brain aging, studies suggest
COVID 'is an all-year round virus' expert warns amid summer wave
Covid keeps killing more people every month than flu does in a year
COVID-19 cut millions of healthy life years across Europe, study shows
‘Death hotspot’: we found 145 koalas killed along a single Queensland highway last year
Discovery of 5,000-year-old farming society in Morocco fills a major gap in history – north-west Africa was a central player in trade and culture
Dive Into 125 Years of Audubon Magazine Covers, Bird by Bird
Drought has dried a major Amazon River tributary to its lowest level in over 122 years
Drug companies pay doctors over A$11 million a year for travel and education. Here’s which specialties received the most
Edinburgh Zoo welcomes baby capybaras for first time in 15 years
Eighty years after thousands of Greek Jews were murdered, Thessaloniki’s Holocaust museum is finally set to open
The endangered gibbons who’ve been reunited after 132 years
‘Entire ecosystem’ of fossils 8.7m years old found under Los Angeles high school
Equinor admits it “over-reported” amount of carbon captured at flagship project for years
‘Every year matters’: Queensland’s critically endangered ‘bum-breathing’ turtle battles the odds
Excuse my cynicism, but after 25 years of the same housing policies, could Australian leaders try something else?
Expensive failure: Flagship Gorgon CCS collects less CO2 in worst year
Extra 10,000 Australians becoming homeless each month, up 22% in three years, report says
Fantasia 2000: celebrating 25 years of a concertless film in search of a concert
Farmers in crisis as vital mango harvests collapse under unexpected pressure: 'Every year, it gets worse'
Fifty years ago, Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin. The lessons from it have still not been learnt
Fifty years ago, Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Everest – why do so few people know her story?
Fifty-year extension for one of Australia’s biggest CO₂ emitters likely after WA ditches emissions-reduction rules
First new asthma attack treatment in 50 years
The first published results from Juukan Gorge show 47,000 years of Aboriginal heritage was destroyed in mining blast
First year of Georgia’s ‘foreign agent’ law shows how autocracies are replicating Russian model − and speeding up the time frame
Five years of the COVID-19 pandemic: An interview with Dr. Arijit Chakravarty
Five years on, the right’s Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream
For 100 years, we have marvelled at planetariums. Here’s a brief history of how humans brought the stars indoors
For the New Year, Try Cultivating Hope
Foreign states including repressive regimes pay peers over £3m in two years
Forest home of ‘polar dinosaurs’ 120 million years ago in southern Australia recreated in detail for the first time
Fossil fuel industry’s anti-climate and anti-renewables playbook goes back 57 years – they are still hard at it
Friday essay: crimes, redemption and rebellion – the truths told in 65,000 years of Australian art are essential for national healing
From dead galaxies to mysterious red dots, here’s what the James Webb telescope has found in just 3 years
From Myanmar to Gaza, Ukraine to Sudan – 2024 was another grim year, according to our mass atrocity index
Gazprom Will Not Recover for At Least 10 Years
George Takei 'Lost Freedom' some 80 years ago – now he's written that story for kids
Germany may take another 50 years to find final repository for waste from shuttered nuclear power
Global water crisis leaves half of world food production at risk in next 25 years
Gone in a puff of smoke: 52,000 sq km of ‘long unburnt’ Australian habitat has vanished in 40 years
The Guardian view on Covid-19, five years on: lessons still to be learned
Happy New Year 2025!
‘Hatsune Miku has a special part in my heart’: the 16-year-old pop sensation who does not exist
‘Here comes the sun’: Zadie Smith on hope, trepidation and rebirth after 14 years of the Tories
Here’s who topped the rankings in this year’s scorecard for sustainable chocolate – and which confectionery giant refused to participate
“High rewards, no regrets:” Council gas bans could save new-build home owners $600 a year on energy
HIV breakthrough: drug trial shows injection twice a year is 100% effective against infection
Hong Kong: No Accountability 5 Years after Mass Protests
Hot weekend for south-east Australia, with Melbourne to get warmest April day in four years
Hottest ocean temperatures in 400 years an ‘existential threat’ to the Great Barrier Reef, researchers find
How 50 years of climate change has changed the face of the 'Blue Marble' from space
How a son spent a year trying to save his father from conspiracy theories
How debt-for-nature swaps have protected the world’s tropical forests for 25 years
How Jia Zhangke’s film Caught by the Tides uses 20 years of footage to capture a changing China
How sci-fi has changed over the last 70 years, analyzed with data.
The human right to science is 76 years old. It’s a reminder for us all to be more curious
Humans generate 62 million tonnes of e-waste each year. Here’s what happens when it’s recycled
Hundreds of cities have achieved zero road deaths in a year. Here’s how they did it
Hydrogen car is dead and buried, just three years after Morrison hailed it a “game changer”
I got a $1,000 electric boat from China two years ago. Here’s what it looks like now
I was jailed for four years for a non-violent climate protest – this is my prison diary
Iceland Embraced a 4-Day Workweek in 2019 – Now, Nearly Six Years On, All Gen Z Forecasts Have Materialized
Imagine if just $500 could fuel your electric car … for the next 20 years
In a year of global elections, how do we stop the spread of misinformation? ‘Prebunking’ is part of the solution
In Bangladesh, olive ridley turtles break 4-year record with 53% increase in eggs
The Innu have lived in eastern Canada for thousands of years, yet their rights to this land are increasingly threatened by the question: who is Indigenous?
Interactive: What Earth’s 4.54 billion-year history would look like in a single year
iOS and Android juice jacking defenses have been trivial to bypass for years
Is eating Tasmanian farmed salmon worth snuffing out 40m years of evolution?
Islamic State remains a potent threat five years after its military defeat
‘It made me cry’: photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers
It took 68 years for the world to reach 1 terawatt of solar PV capacity. It took just two years to double it
“It’s all about the money:” US town saves $80,000 a year by switching to electric police vehicles
'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch
It’s not official yet but Mount Fuji gets its trademark snowcap after the longest delay in 130 years
‘It’s the first time I’ve woven in 27 years’: Peruvian women revive arts lost to trauma of forced sterilisations
Jurassic-era trees have grown in Tasmania for millions of years. Now they face their biggest threat: fire
‘Kamala IS brat’: how the power of pop music has influenced 60 years of US elections
‘Kindness’ is named Oxford Children’s Word of the Year for 2024
Last coal power station in UK shuts down, brings coal era to end after 143 years
‘Like finding gold’: plains-wanderers spotted in Melbourne’s west for first time in 30 years with help of AI
Like running Hazelwood for 106 years: Labor says Dutton’s nuke plan will be akin to a carbon bomb
Macquarie Island remains pest free 10 years after eradication program, but new threats loom
Many prisoners go years without touching a smartphone. It means they struggle to navigate life on the outside
Maui celebrates recovery of 151-year-old banyan tree after 2023 wildfire damage
Meet 2 ‘Lost’ Species—A Flightless Bird And Gliding Mammal—Rediscovered 50+ Years Later
Moe Turaga was a modern slavery victim on an Australian farm for 2 years before escaping
More than 1,300 Hajj pilgrims died this year when humidity and heat pushed past survivable limits. It’s just the start
More than 60 dinosaur footprints found on boulder that sat at Queensland school for 20 years
Most ‘words of the year’ don’t actually tell us about the state of the world – here’s what I’d pick instead
My Experience After One Year of Going Full "EV"
NASA smacked a spacecraft into an asteroid – and learned details about its 12-million-year history
New research reveals chemical secrets of Earth’s crust 4.5 billion years ago
New study shows mysterious solar particle blasts can devastate the ozone layer, bathing Earth in radiation for years
No power bill for 10 years for wool mill that switched to renewables
North Korean hackers target Python devs with malware disguised as coding tests — hack has been underway for a year
Not Only The Hottest On Record, Summer 2023 Was Hottest For 2,000 Years
NSW will remove 65,000 years of Aboriginal history from its years 7–10 syllabus. It’s a step backwards for education
Nuclear energy debate draws stark gender split in Australia ahead of next year’s election
Offshore hydrogen “energy islands” could save Germany €4 billion per year – report
‘Once-in-a-lifetime event’: rare chance to see explosion on dwarf star 3,000 light years away
Only 100 years ago the Milky Way was visible from central Paris. Here’s how we can get the night sky back
Oscar-nominated documentary produced in Sydney kept secret for a year due to fears of Russian interference
'Our plan worked': How Vienna prepared itself for a 5,000-year flood
Parents are waiting more than 30 years for an Australian visa. The new home affairs minister needs to act
Parts of Great Barrier Reef record worst coral loss in 39 years, early AIMS survey results show
Pelicans return to nest at Great Salt Lake island for 1st time in 81 years
Pellegrini's Espresso Bar in Melbourne farewells beloved server Rocco Eliche after 50 years
Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan could blow out household electricity bills by up to $600 a year by 2030
Pine martens return to Dartmoor after 150-year absence
Poetry, parties and ‘strong Australian tea’. The surprising story of how Anzac Day has been marked in the US for over 100 years
Prefabs and the ‘missing middle’: how to get Australia back on track to build 1.2 million homes in the next 5 years
Public Health Association calls for Australian CDC on Covid five-year anniversary
Queensland’s recovery to ‘take months and years’ after floods sweep across vast interior
Rain gave Australia’s environment a fourth year of reprieve in 2024 – but this masks deepening problems: report
Record Mexican Wolf Pup Foster Year
Rescuer Uses Pineapple To Rescue Elephant Chained For 31 Years | The Dodo
ReSource RICA tree-planting project turns 'ugly' hill in central Victoria into 'paradise' over 20 years
Returning a 170-year-old preserved lizard to Jamaica is a step toward redressing colonial harms
Russia gives Navalny lawyers multi-year sentences for relaying his messages
Russian court jails US-Russian woman for 12 years over $50 charity donation
Salmon Make a Long-Awaited Return to the Klamath River for the First Time in 112 Years, After Largest Dam Removal in U.S.
Scientists claim PV systems combined with thermoelectric cooling may achieve 6-year payback time
Scientists mapped the world’s rivers over 35 years. They found shocking changes
See 11 Breathtaking Space Images From the Astronomy Photographer of the Year Contest
Sharp and curious, my 85-year-old neighbour wades into conversations with a joyful openness
The sharp, smart humour of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein – and Gene Wilder’s genius performance – still stands up after 50 years
'She is so old': One-eyed wolf in Yellowstone defies odds by having 10th litter of pups in 11 years
Sixty years ago, 29 students took a bus ride that changed the way Australia thought about race
Smartphones Can Now Last 7 Years. Here’s How to Keep Them Working.
Smoke pollution from wildfires may be killing an extra 12,000 people a year, new research suggests
Solar and battery microgrid saves Lord Howe Island $1.5m in diesel fuel costs in two years
Solar charts record growth to overtake coal in EU power mix, send fossil fuels to 40-year low
Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed
Still fab after 60 years: how The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night made pop cinema history
Striking Satellite Images Reveal Antarctica Is 10 Times Greener Than 35 Years Ago
Students' 'homemade' rocket soars faster and farther into space than any other amateur spacecraft — smashing 20-year records
Summer 2023 was northern hemisphere’s hottest for 2,000 years, tree rings show
Surviving the Next Four Years
Tailoring and the Black dandy: how 250 years of Black fashion history inspired the 2025 Met Gala
Tax on Europe’s frequent flyers could raise €64bn a year – study
They are relics of the Gondwana age but five years after Australia’s black summer these trees are dying a ‘long, slow death’
This beautiful peacock spider was only found two years ago. Now it could be dancing its last dance
‘This is climate change’: Scottish beach eroding by 7 metres a year
This year’s Nobel prize exposes economics’ problem with colonialism
Thousands of patients caught COVID in NSW hospitals last year and hundreds died, new data shows
Threatened species have declined 2% a year since 2000. Nature positive? Far from it.
Three years after Russia’s invasion, a global online army is still fighting for Ukraine
Tonnes of microplastics infiltrate Australia’s agricultural soils each year, study shows
Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing?
Trump, Covid, the climate crisis – we’ve had a hard few years. The wounds linger
Trumpism echoes Timothy McVeigh’s right-wing extremism, 30 years after the Oklahoma bombing
Two Years of Amazing Images From the James Webb Space Telescope
Undercover: Exposing the Far Right review – the bravest documentary of the year so far
‘Unlike anything today’: Gippsland fossil unlocks secrets of kangaroo that died out 46,000 years ago
The Unshakeable Resilience of Lahaina, One Year After the Wildfires
US power grid added battery equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors in past four years
Vaccines accounted for 40% of the decline in infant mortality over the last 50 years
‘Wake-up call to humanity’: research shows the Great Barrier Reef is the hottest it’s been in 400 years
The Wanamaker organ has been part of a treasured holiday tradition in Philly for over 100 years − a historian explains its illustrious past and uncertain future
We are Experiencing the Longest Heatwave in 75 Years
We spent 2 years in deep underground caves to bring this extraordinary fossil to light
We tracked the mental health of trans and gender-diverse Australians for over 20 years. And we’re worried
"We would look at all the American RPGs and the JRPGs at the time and just go, 'Right, if they're doing it, we're not": Peter Molyneux and John McCormack talk the development of Fable 20 years on
West Antarctica’s ice sheet was smaller thousands of years ago – here’s why this matters today
What 2,000 years of Chinese history reveals about today’s AI-driven technology panic – and the future of inequality
What happens when you give a low-income family $26,000 in their child’s first year? We think we’ve found out
What Venezuela Twenty Years Ago Taught Me About The USA Today
What went right in 2024: the top 25 good news stories of the year
When a 1-in-100 year flood washed through the Coorong, it made the vital microbiome of this lagoon healthier
Why The Australian Open Looks Different For Some This Year: Broadcast Rights
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2024: the winning images
With just 5 years to go, the world is failing on a vital deal to halt biodiversity loss
Witness 1.8 billion years of tectonic plates dance across Earth’s surface in a new animation
Woman Admits 'Regret' Over Not Buying Puffin Sweater Years Ago. Days Later, It Shows Up at Her Front Door
Women are still being paid almost $30,000 a year less than men and the gap widens with age
Women political leaders are rare – but 450 years ago, Anna Jagiellon was elected Queen of Poland
Wood carver Maud Baillie made 'world-class' craft furniture on remote Wedge Island 120 years ago
World will be ‘unable to cope’ with volume of plastic waste in 10 years, warns expert
World’s biggest battery maker flags first commercial sodium battery packs by end of year
World's first 9 MWh energy storage system by CATL can power a house for 5 years with zero degradation
The Year in Cheer: 144 ways the world got better in 2024.
The year is 2149 and …
Yes, Australia’s environment is on a depressing path – but $7 billion a year would transform it
Yosemite National Park: Crews restore damaged landscape back to conditions not seen in 150 years
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