How can your bank help reduce climate change risks to your home?
May 30, 2016 04:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Nature
Australia is a land of extreme weather. Events such as the 2009 Victorian bushfires, the 2011 Queensland floods and Cyclone Yasi in 2013 are stark examples of climate-related risks faced by Australian households. Many...
Restoring the Everglades will benefit both humans and nature
May 30, 2016 02:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Everglades National Park (ENP) is our only national wetland park, and one of the largest aquascapes in the world. Perhaps more than any other U.S. national park, ENPs treasures are hard to defend. Lying at the southern end...
We're kidding ourselves if we think we can 'reset' Earth's damaged ecosystems
May 30, 2016 00:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Earth is in a land degradation crisis. If we were to take the roughly one-third of the worlds land that has been degraded from its natural state and combine it into a single entity, these Federated States of Degradia would...
Energy crops have been a major flop with farmers – here's why
May 27, 2016 15:33 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Whatever happened to energy crops? A decade ago, the UK authorities confidently expected farmers to devote swaths of land to growing the likes of short-rotation willow and poplar and perennial grasses. These were to help...
Climate change, tourism and the Great Barrier Reef: what we know
May 27, 2016 08:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The removal of an entire section on the Great Barrier Reef from an international report on World Heritage and climate change has been justified by the Australian government because of the impact on tourism. The Guardian...
Antarctica may not be as isolated as we thought, and that's a worry
May 27, 2016 06:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
For a long time, we have thought of Antarctica as isolated from the rest of the world. The continent is entirely surrounded by the Southern Ocean, which heaves with giant waves whipped up by intense winds, and is home to...
El Niño is over, but has left its mark across the world
May 25, 2016 23:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The 2015-16 El Niño has likely reached its end. Tropical Pacific Ocean temperatures, trade winds, cloud and pressure patterns have all dropped back to near normal, although clearly the events impacts around the...
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