Hot summers can be expensive, with air conditioners and fans driving up household electricity costs; however, researchers from the University of South Australia (UniSA) have identified a scientifically valid and inexpensive cooling method humans have known about for nearly a century. In a study from the UniSA, living walls or vertical gardens—walls that are entirely covered with…

Investing in skin cancer prevention in Australia could both save lives and significantly reduce the nation’s $2 billion (approx US$1.45 billion) a year in treatment costs, experts say. In a new health economics paper published on Dec. 22 in Public Health Research & Practice, a peer-reviewed journal of the Sax Institute, the authors noted the…