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Islands are engines of linguistic diversity, study shows

Islands drive language change and generate language diversity in similar ways to how they drive species diversity, according to new research from ANU that analysed languages from over 13,000 inhabited islands.

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Thursday, 02 Apr 2015
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Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) are calling for the public to help protect three species of critically endangered birds.

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Wednesday, 01 Apr 2015
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For almost two decades, the management of forests in parts of Western Australia, Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales has been underpinned by state and federal Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs)

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Tuesday, 31 Mar 2015
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New research has found humans are likely to underestimate the amount of detail in symmetrical compared to random patterns.

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