After devastating earthquakes, Indonesia must embrace radical change
Aug 08, 2018 11:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
An earthquake on Lombok island in Indonesia has left 98 people dead and 20,000 people homeless, according to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency. Around 70% of North Lomboks housing stock has either collapsed or...
Why the summer sound of noisy crickets is growing fainter
Aug 08, 2018 11:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Chirp, chirp! To make this familiar summer sound, the male cricket holds his nerve and stridulates rubbing his back legs together in order to entice a female. He knows this makes him vulnerable. What a female cricket...
A perfect storm of factors is making wildfires bigger and more expensive to control
Aug 01, 2018 14:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Hopes for fewer large wildfires in 2018, after last years disastrous fire season, are rapidly disappearing across the West. Six deaths have been reported in Northern Californias Carr Fire, including two firefighters. Fires...
How changing the world's food systems can help to protect the planet
Aug 01, 2018 14:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Going into debt with nature is a dangerous thing. When our stocks of water, land and clean air are spent we dont have a second planet to borrow from. But thats exactly the way that Earth is heading. 1 August 2018 marks an...
Geoengineering the Great Barrier Reef needs strong rules
Aug 01, 2018 14:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The Great Barrier Reef has experienced extensive coral bleaching over the past two years. Faced with this reality, scientists are proposing a range of options to save the reef. A recent conference showcased new...
All-you-can-eat landfill buffet spells trouble for birds
Aug 01, 2018 14:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Among all the types of waste we generate, plastic tends to pose the greatest problems. Plastic has helped save lives in the form of medical equipment, for example. But plastic has also become common in places where it...
New map shows that only 13% of the oceans are still truly wild
Aug 01, 2018 13:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Just 13% of the worlds oceans are now free from intense human activities such as fishing, according to a new map of ocean wilderness areas. Our research, published in the journal Current Biology, shows that only 55...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects