Adapting cities to a hotter world: 3 essential reads
Jul 21, 2019 11:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Heat waves can be deadly, especially when they combine high temperatures with elevated humidity levels that make the air feel even hotter. The impacts can be especially strong in cities, which often are several degrees...
Dog owners could take the lead on dingo conservation with a 'Fido fund'
Jul 18, 2019 23:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Humans and dogs go way back. From wolf totems to the big bad wolf of fact and fairy tale, through sheepdogs, lap dogs, and labradoodles, our relationships with these animals are complex, emotionally charged and sometimes...
Five ways to be a responsible wildlife tourist
Jul 14, 2019 13:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Imagine walking through a lush tropical forest. You hear a rustle overhead, and a half-eaten fruit plops onto the trail. You lock eyes with a howler monkey, before he gives a soft grunt and moves higher into the trees....
Solar weather has real, material effects on Earth
Jul 14, 2019 13:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
On Sep. 1, 1859, solar astronomer Richard Carrington witnessed sunspots that suddenly and briefly flashed brightly before they disappeared. Just before dawn the next day, auroras erupted over most of the Earth, reaching as...
Living with rats involves understanding the city as an ecosystem
Jul 14, 2019 13:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Rats! They eat our food, chew through our property and spread all sorts of nasty diseases. And they are gross (right?), with those naked tails and quick, unpredictable movements. Rats invade our homes our castles! the...
In the remote Cambodian jungles, we made sure rare Siamese crocodiles would have enough food
Jul 14, 2019 13:10 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
For nine hours, my colleague Michael Shackleton and I held onto our scooters for dear life while being slapped in the face by spiked jungle plants in the mountains of Cambodia. We only disembarked either to help push a...
The environmental cost of abandoning your tent at a music festival
Jul 12, 2019 10:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
After years of depressing images of huge fields strewn with abandoned tents and rubbish in the aftermath of music festivals, it was heartening to hear Glastonbury Festival organisers claim that 99% of festival-goers tents...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects