Climate change will create new ecosystems, so let's help plants move
Aug 23, 2016 06:21 am UTC| Nature
Australias ecosystems are already showing the signs of climate change, from the recent death of mangrove forests in northern Australia, to the decline in birds in eastern Australia, to the inability of mountain ash forests...
What if we abandoned Britain's farms and left them to nature?
Aug 22, 2016 09:24 am UTC| Nature
Without farming, Britains countryside would be drastically different. Imagine walking through landscapes un-tilled, un-sown, un-fertilised and un-treated, nor grazed by cattle or sheep. Following the Brexit vote, the...
Green beans: why pulses are the eco-friendly option for feeding – and saving – the world
Aug 17, 2016 09:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
We all know the score: current trends predict there will be 9.7 billion mouths to feed by 2050. Producing enough food without using more land, exacerbating climate change or putting more pressure on water, soil and energy...
Our planet is heating - the empirical evidence
Aug 16, 2016 14:07 pm UTC| Nature
In an entertaining and somewhat chaotic episode of QA (Monday 15th August) pitching science superstar Brian Cox against climate contrarian and global conspiracy theorist and now senator Malcolm Roberts, the question of...
As the climate changes, are 750 million refugees predicted to move away from flooding?
Aug 04, 2016 10:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The Conversation is fact-checking claims made on QA, broadcast Mondays on the ABC at 9.35pm. Thank you to everyone who sent us quotes for checking via Twitter using hashtags #FactCheck and #QandA, on Facebook or by...
State of the Climate 2015: global warming and El Niño sent records tumbling
Aug 04, 2016 10:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The State of the Climate in 2015 report, led by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was released yesterday. Unfortunately, it paints a grim picture of the worlds climate last year. For a second...
Can 'climate corridors' help species adapt to warming world?
Aug 03, 2016 06:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
If you flip over a log in a forest in the southeastern U.S., you are likely to find a squirming salamander. A healthy forest floor, full of fallen branches and rotting leaves, provides these amphibians with the...
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
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight