4 steps the Indonesian government can take to ensure locals help put out forest fires
Dec 01, 2019 03:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
A massive forest fire broke out in Indonesia in 2015, burning at least two million hectares and killing 19 people. It also resulted in an estimated 500,000 cases of respiratory tract infections. It cost the country at...
Amazon fires are causing glaciers in the Andes to melt even faster
Dec 01, 2019 03:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
If have you turned on a TV or read the news during the past few months, you have probably heard of the widespread fires that wrought havoc on the Amazon rainforest this year. Fires occur in the rainforest every year, but...
Growing palm oil on former farmland cuts deforestation, CO₂ and biodiversity loss
Nov 24, 2019 14:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Few natural products are as maligned as palm oil, the vegetable oil thats in everything from chocolate spread to washing up liquid. On the island of Borneo, oil palm plantations have replaced nearly 40% of the native...
Celebrity greens kale and seaweed were long considered food of last resort
Nov 24, 2019 14:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Many of our diets are, to some extent, determined by the whims of fashion. This is not an astute observation, nor a particularly new one just consider the 1970s obsession with pineapple and quiche. But social media is...
Why it is important to regulate shark fisheries in Indonesia
Nov 24, 2019 14:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Indonesia is home to 117 shark species. The 2015 report from the Food and Agriculture Agency, FAO, ranked Indonesia in first place among 40 nations that still fish for sharks. In the last decade, Indonesia contributed...
Light versus dark – the color of the meat is due to the job of the muscle
Nov 24, 2019 14:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
As families gather together this holiday season, the lucky ones will avoid impassioned discussions about religion and politics. But another argument is almost inevitable: white meat versus dark meat. Light meat lovers...
Smoke haze hurts financial markets as well as the environment
Nov 24, 2019 14:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy Nature
Sydney is currently blanketed by smoke haze from severe bushfires that have burned through New South Wales. Air pollution levels on Thursday reached hazardous levels for the second time in a week. The NSW Rural Fire...
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
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