Jan 11, 2024 03:31 am UTC| Economy Nature
National weather analysts released their 2023 billion-dollar disasters list on Jan. 9, just as 2024 was getting off to a ferocious start. A blizzard was sweeping across across the Plains and Midwest, and the South and East...
‘Legal animism’: when a river or even nature itself goes to court
Jan 11, 2024 03:27 am UTC| Nature
On 30 March 2011, a truly unprecedented event took place at a provincial court in Loja, Equator, located some 270 miles from the capital of Quito. The Vilcabamba River, a plaintiff in a trial there, convinced the tribunal...
Four good news climate stories from 2023
Jan 04, 2024 04:40 am UTC| Nature
We dont want to give you the wrong idea: things are bad. Antarctic ice sheets are melting, the fossil fuel lobby was everywhere at the COP talks, and even solutions like electric cars have their problems. And that just...
Jan 04, 2024 04:38 am UTC| Nature
Across the vast Australian continent, feral pigs, feral deer and European rabbits roam in their millions. By different names wild boar, venison and lapin these could all be served in a Michelin star restaurant. Feral...
Can golf courses help save the planet? Ask a herd of wild pigs
Jan 04, 2024 04:35 am UTC| Sports Nature
An Arizona golf course, so picture-perfect it was described as the Imax of golf, was wantonly trashed by intruders in the autumn of 2023. But no, this was not Just Stop Oil back for another round, nor the result of a...
COP28 deal confirms what Australia already knows: coal is out of vogue and out of time
Dec 18, 2023 01:20 am UTC| Nature
At the COP28 climate summit in Dubai this week, nations agreed to transition away from coal, oil and gas . After 30 years of COP meetings, the world has finally committed to weaning itself from these carbon-based drivers...
Dec 13, 2023 14:22 pm UTC| Nature
Perilously situated between rising sea levels and pressures from upstream lie coastal river deltas and their roughly half a billion inhabitants. These regions have played an important role in societal development since the...
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Elon Musk vs Australia: global content take-down orders can harm the internet if adopted widely