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Living in limbo: The precarious existence of refugees in Malaysia

With more than 190,000 refugees in Malaysia living without legal protection, facing daily hardship and exclusion, there’s an urgent need for compassionate, rights-based reform to ensure dignity, safety, and hope.

Business

Rising to the challenge: Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments

Innovative, nature-based infrastructure and real-time health research are reshaping lives in vulnerable communities, proving that sustainable solutions can thrive in some of the world’s most challenging environments.

Environment

Episode 97: Can Good Stories Help Save the Planet?

See how storytelling, not statistics, can inspire climate action by highlighting resilience and innovation across the Indo-Pacific on a new episode of “What Happens Next?”

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Episode 96: Will Climate Change Wipe Out the Indo-Pacific?

Discover the urgent climate challenges facing the Indo-Pacific and the power of storytelling to drive meaningful climate action in this new “What Happens Next?” episode.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

The human health impact of climate change

The world has talked at great lengths about how climate change is an environmental crisis. But what about the human health effects that come from it?

Sustainability

The ‘What Happens Next?’ Podcast Is Back

Monash's award-winning podcast, “What Happens Next?”, returns for a ninth season that explores pressing global issues including reality in the digital age, climate change in the Indo-Pacific region and the ongoing struggle to eliminate gender-based violence.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Saving Citarum: Cleaning up one of the world’s most polluted rivers

The Citarum River in Indonesia is the focus of a revitalisation project, and a Monash University cross-faculty team has been called on to help make it happen.

Sustainability

Lessons from Indonesia: How scientists and communities can build partnerships

Residents of flood-prone areas have been counting on local knowledge and community support to deal with floods for centuries. Can scientists work with them to mitigate the problem?

Environment

Radically rethinking the environment and human health connection

Let's take what we’ve learned from our COVID-19 experience to radically rethink the relationship between our environment and human health.

Environment

Drink to that: Portable water filter to aid disaster relief efforts

Getting clean water to natural disaster areas can be difficult, but a simple water filtering device could circumvent the problem.

Technology and engineering

Cleaning up the backyard

Pacific climate migration patterns challenge the role of national governments as intermediaries for policy action.

Environment

RISEing to the challenge in Indonesia

The five-year water-focused project is revitalising informal settlements in Makassar.

Environment

Committed to a sustainable future

Monash is playing a leading role in the push to meet the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

Global Leaders' Week

Monash drives sustainable development initiatives

From energy storage solutions and smart urban planning, to ensuring a steady food supply in a world of climate change, Monash researchers and industry experts offer insights.

Environment