Climate change is happening in your garden: here's how to spot it
Sep 30, 2016 09:43 am UTC| Nature
As the weather warms and days lengthen, your attention may be turning to that forgotten patch of your backyard. This week weve asked our experts to share the science behind gardening. So grab a trowel and your green...
Record high to record low: what on earth is happening to Antarctica's sea ice?
Sep 29, 2016 02:42 am UTC| Nature
2016 continues to be a momentous year for Australias climate, on track to be the new hottest year on record. To our south, Antarctica has also just broken a new climate record, with record low winter sea ice. After a...
Sep 29, 2016 00:31 am UTC| Nature
Just as people pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, the land also absorbs some of those emissions. Plants, as they grow, use carbon dioxide and store it within their bodies. However, as the...
Climate change and the presidential race: Lessons from the Reagan years
Sep 28, 2016 16:47 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Climate change did not come up in the first presidential debate well, not in any real sense. Hillary Clinton jabbed at Donald Trump for claiming that The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in...
Current emissions could already warm world to dangerous levels: study
Sep 27, 2016 18:52 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Current greenhouse gas concentrations could warm the world 3-7℃ (and on average 5℃) over coming millennia. Thats the finding of a paper published in Nature today. The research, by Carolyn Snyder, reconstructed...
What's holding Russia back from ratifying the Paris climate agreement?
Sep 27, 2016 17:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that his country will ratify the Paris climate agreement in October, a significant boost in the campaign to have the agreement become legally binding by the end of the...
IPCC chair Hoesung Lee: we can meet 2°C global warming target if we act fast
Sep 26, 2016 08:31 am UTC| Nature
Hoesung Lee was elected chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just one month before the landmark Paris climate talks of 2015. The agreement that emerged from that meeting committed the worlds...
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