Strawberry sabotage: what are copycat crimes and who commits them?
Sep 25, 2018 18:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Last week, authorities urged consumers in Queensland, NSW and Victoria to throw away strawberries from two Queensland brands after needles were discovered in punnets purchased at a Woolworths. Since then, the localised...
Microplastics are getting into mosquitoes and contaminating new food chains
Sep 25, 2018 18:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
There is no doubt that plastic pollution in oceans is a growing worldwide problem. The internet is full of images of seabirds and other marine animals entangled in plastic waste, and animals starve because their guts are...
Hurricane kids: What Katrina taught us about saving Puerto Rico's youngest storm victims
Sep 25, 2018 17:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The catastrophe that followed Hurricane Marias landfall in Puerto Rico, on Sept. 20, 2017, affected all of Puerto Ricos 3.3 million citizens. Everyone lost power for weeks. Half of all Puerto Ricans went without...
Destructive 2018 hail season a sign of things to come
Sep 25, 2018 17:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
As ominous skies moved overhead just after noon on Aug. 6, the small splash of a hailstone was heard in the pool of the bear exhibit at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs. Moments later, a barrage of ice...
Wild boars run amok in the city of Genoa, as abandoned rural areas are 'rewilded'
Sep 25, 2018 17:35 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Crossing the Ponte Gerolamo Serra in the Italian city of Genoa, I spotted a small crowd clustered by the river wall. I approached, intrigued, and peered over the wall to discover the subject of their delight: a sounder of...
Rhino horn must become a socially unacceptable product in Asia
Sep 25, 2018 17:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
At current rates of loss to poaching, rhino species will be extinct within our lifetimes. The big problem is demand for their horn from Asia. The market for rhino horn is moving from traditional medicine to investment...
Brexit Britain has taken its eye off the Paris Agreement on climate change
Sep 25, 2018 10:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
When Theresa May became the Brexit prime minister in July 2016 it took her less than 24 hours to dissolve the Department of Energy and Climate Change. The message could not have been clearer: Brexit first, and climate...
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