From the coast to the deep sea, changing oxygen levels affect marine life in different ways
Apr 25, 2024 06:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Earths atmosphere maintains a constant level of oxygen, whether it is a wintry, rainy day or hot summer. Across the ocean, oxygen concentrations vary enormously between different places and over time. Sometimes oxygen...
Apr 25, 2024 06:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
I had the good fortune to care for the sugar gum at The University of Melbournes Burnley Gardens in Victoria where I worked for many decades. It was a fine tree tall and dominating. Less than a year after my retirement,...
The weather experiment that really flooded Dubai
Apr 25, 2024 06:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
A reckless experiment in Earths atmosphere caused a desert metropolis to flood. That was the story last week when more than a years worth of rain fell in a day on the Arabian Peninsula, one of the worlds driest regions....
Apr 25, 2024 05:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
How do we understand past societies? For centuries, our main sources of information have been pottery sherds, burial sites and ancient texts. But the study of ancient DNA is changing what we know about the human past,...
The high and mighty Himalayas: A biodiversity hotbed facing significant challenges
Apr 24, 2024 09:36 am UTC| Nature
The Himalayas are home to a vast diversity of species, consisting of 10,000 vascular plants, 979 birds and 300 mammals, including the snow leopard, the red panda, the Himalayan tahr and the Himalayan monal. The region...
Earth Day 2024: 4 effective strategies to reduce household food waste
Apr 22, 2024 03:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The global food system produces enough food for everyone, yet, in 2023, 333 million people worldwide were food insecure and 783 million were chronically hungry. An estimated 1.3 billion tons of food 14 per cent of all...
Apr 19, 2024 06:22 am UTC| Nature
Have you ever wondered if there are more insects out at night than during the day? We set out to answer this question by combing through the scientific literature. We searched for meaningful comparisons of insect...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight