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-A British government inquiry is looking into the “unspeakable and unimaginable brutality and sadism” of Nazi concentration camps during the German occupation of the Channel Island of Alderney in WW2.

Deep in the jungles of Indonesian Borneo live a group of critically endangered Orangutans. Though their populations are threatened,  their booming ‘long calls’ can still be heard for kilometres. But what exactly are they saying? Orangutan calls are exceptionally variable and notoriously difficult to de-code, but that hasn’t stopped a team of researchers from Cornell university from trying.

The images and reporting from inside Gaza are almost exclusively the work of local journalists

"Simone" arrived on a remote island to help asylum seekers. But she witnessed something there that convinced her to leak over 2000 documents. Reporters Paul Farrell and Maddison Conaughton investigate what happened.

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The 2023 Ocean Photographer of the Year grew up in a family completely disconnected from nature. She was raised in inland China. Her parents are both lawyers who enjoy Mahjong as their main hobby, rather than adventuring into the wilderness.

As Eurovision maintains its apolitical alignment amid the Gaza conflict, viewers are turning to forms of micro-boycotting to express their displeasure.

Tamsin Mather has been studying volcanoes for over 20 years, her work as a professor of Earth sciences at the University of Oxford has taken her across the globe chasing eruptions and monitoring gas plumes to study their impacts on the earth’s atmosphere. Her new book Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves takes us along with her, exploring humanity's complex relationship with these fiery giants through history, art and science. The book charts a course from the rock beneath our feet to the atmosphere above us and even beyond to extraterrestrial volcanoes on distant exoplanets.

Indonesia has an estimated 700 shipwrecks submerged in its waters, some dating back as far as the 9th century, and many have ben plundered over the years by commercial salvagers and treasure hunters. The “Reuniting Orphaned Cargos” project sees archaeologists in Australia and Indonesia trying to get to the bottom of what happened these thousands of artefacts retrieved from the bottom of the ocean, by trying to trace them back to specific shipwrecks. 

Raoul Wallenberg and Per Anger saved thousands of Hungarian Jews by issuing them fake Swedish identification papers and established safe houses under protection of Swedish legation in Budapest. This year, on the 80th anniversary of the deportations in Hungary, Per Anger’s son Jan Anger spoke about the story at a Yom Hashoah event “Behind the Swedish rescue of Budapest’s Jews” at an event at Sydney Jewish Museum.