How to reverse the dangerous decline in low-carbon innovation
Oct 24, 2016 09:34 am UTC| Nature
The Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to less than 2C at the end of the 21st century demands that we sharply reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, reaching near zero in less than 100 years. Achieving this...
Bolivia's fast-melting glaciers are leaving behind lakes that could cause catastrophic floods
Oct 21, 2016 09:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Bolivias glaciers have shrunk by more than 40% in the past few decades. This puts further pressure on an already stressed water supply, while the meltwater lakes left behind risk collapsing in sudden and catastrophic...
How a saviour of the ozone hole became a climate change villain – and how we're going to fix it
Oct 18, 2016 05:40 am UTC| Nature
Over the weekend, international leaders meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, agreed to a remarkable deal to phase-out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), used as refrigerants and propellants. HFCs are potent greenhouse gases. The...
'We must keep the lights on': how a cyclone was used to attack renewables
Oct 04, 2016 08:17 am UTC| Nature
The mid-latitude cyclone with no name that hit South Australia last week, spawning two tornadoes and 80,000 electricity strikes, destroyed 22 massive transmission towers carrying electricity across the state. The...
How to Think About 1.5 Degrees
Oct 04, 2016 07:38 am UTC| Nature
Astonishment was universal last December when the Paris Agreement on climate change included the aspiration to limit warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, a much tougher target than the standard of 2 degrees,...
Stop sending climate consultants to poor countries – invest in universities instead
Oct 04, 2016 07:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
As we edge closer to global consensus on climate change and the need to reduce emissions, the focus has moved from debating the science or the need for global action to the responsibility of individual countries to provide...
What do sugar and climate change have in common? Misplaced scepticism of the science
Sep 30, 2016 12:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Why do we think that climate sceptics are irrational? A major reason is that almost none of them have any genuine expertise in climate science (most have no scientific expertise at all), yet theyre confident that they know...
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
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects