The most influential climate science paper of all time
Oct 09, 2021 08:29 am UTC| Science
After the second world war, many of Japans smartest scientists found jobs in North American laboratories. Syukuro (Suki) Manabe, a 27-year-old physicist, was part of this brain drain. He was working on weather forecasting...
Conservation works better when local communities lead it, new evidence shows
Oct 09, 2021 08:26 am UTC| Nature Life Science
We are currently facing a mass extinction of plants and animals. To remedy this, world leaders have pledged a huge expansion of protected areas ahead of the UN biodiversity summits to be held in October 2021 and May 2022...
Tweets, emails or hand-written notes? What gets politicians to speak up on climate
Sep 27, 2021 23:37 pm UTC| Politics
With the United Nations-led climate negotiations set to occur in November, citizens around the world have reason to despair at their governments efforts to tackle climate change. Existing national policies put the planet...
How Sen. Joe Manchin's support for natural gas could derail Biden's US climate plan
Sep 27, 2021 23:36 pm UTC| Politics
President Joe Biden has a goal for all U.S. electricity to come from zero-carbon sources by 2035. To get there, hes counting on Congress to approve an ambitious package of incentives and penalties designed to encourage...
Josh Frydenberg prepares ground for Scott Morrison to commit to 2050 climate target
Sep 24, 2021 02:53 am UTC| Politics
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will prepare the way for Scott Morrison to take a target of net zero emissions by 2050 to Glasgow, when he warns on Friday capital inflow will be at risk if Australia is seen as a climate...
Climate change: why government failure to act isn't the problem
Aug 22, 2021 01:09 am UTC| Nature Politics
The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report underscored the dire state of the climate crisis, concluding that immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are needed to...
Earth's energy budget is out of balance – here's how it's warming the climate
Aug 06, 2021 10:20 am UTC| Nature
You probably remember your grade school science teachers explaining that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Thats a fundamental property of the universe. Energy can be transformed, however. When the Suns rays...
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