What Australian states can learn from Trump dismantling climate change policy
Aug 21, 2018 16:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The Trump administrations withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement was greeted with dismay around the world. Less well known, but probably just as damaging to emissions reductions, was freezing standards for carbon...
Indonesia earthquake: how scrap tyres could stop buildings collapsing
Aug 16, 2018 20:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
At the time of writing, 436 people have died following an earthquake in the Indonesian island of Lombok. A further 2,500 people have been hospitalised with serious injuries and over 270,000 people have been...
Hothouse Earth: our planet has been here before – here's what it looked like
Aug 14, 2018 14:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Even if carbon emissions are reduced to hold temperature rises at the 2C guardrail of the Paris Agreement, changes already afoot in the environment such as melting permafrost and forest die-back could accelerate warming...
Rohingya crisis: a year since it shocked the world, what's changed?
Aug 14, 2018 13:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
This August marks a full year since one of the 21st centurys worst refugee crises gripped the worlds attention. In 2017, an unprecedented number of Rohingya Muslim refugees began fleeing Myanmars Rakhine state for...
Woody plants on the march: trees and shrubs are encroaching across Africa
Aug 14, 2018 13:52 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Forests are being cleared by humans at an alarming rate. Since 2000, roughly 20% of Africas forests have been wiped out. This deforestation has serious consequences, among them a loss of biodiversity and the potential to...
How roadblocks, not just minerals, fund rebels and conflict in the Congo
Aug 14, 2018 13:52 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature Politics
For over a decade its been widely recognised that rebel financing in the Democratic Republic of Congo is firmly linked to mining. First discovered by the Belgians in 1904, the Congolese soil harbours a huge amount of...
What elephants' unique brain structures suggest about their mental abilities
Aug 13, 2018 15:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Conservationists have designated August 12 as World Elephant Day to raise awareness about conserving these majestic animals. Elephants have many engaging features, from their incredibly dexterous trunks to their memory...
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