‘Legal animism’: when a river or even nature itself goes to court
Jan 11, 2024 03:27 am UTC| Nature
On 30 March 2011, a truly unprecedented event took place at a provincial court in Loja, Equator, located some 270 miles from the capital of Quito. The Vilcabamba River, a plaintiff in a trial there, convinced the tribunal...
Four good news climate stories from 2023
Jan 04, 2024 04:40 am UTC| Nature
We dont want to give you the wrong idea: things are bad. Antarctic ice sheets are melting, the fossil fuel lobby was everywhere at the COP talks, and even solutions like electric cars have their problems. And that just...
Jan 04, 2024 04:38 am UTC| Nature
Across the vast Australian continent, feral pigs, feral deer and European rabbits roam in their millions. By different names wild boar, venison and lapin these could all be served in a Michelin star restaurant. Feral...
Can golf courses help save the planet? Ask a herd of wild pigs
Jan 04, 2024 04:35 am UTC| Sports Nature
An Arizona golf course, so picture-perfect it was described as the Imax of golf, was wantonly trashed by intruders in the autumn of 2023. But no, this was not Just Stop Oil back for another round, nor the result of a...
COP28 deal confirms what Australia already knows: coal is out of vogue and out of time
Dec 18, 2023 01:20 am UTC| Nature
At the COP28 climate summit in Dubai this week, nations agreed to transition away from coal, oil and gas . After 30 years of COP meetings, the world has finally committed to weaning itself from these carbon-based drivers...
Dec 13, 2023 14:22 pm UTC| Nature
Perilously situated between rising sea levels and pressures from upstream lie coastal river deltas and their roughly half a billion inhabitants. These regions have played an important role in societal development since the...
Why the long face? Experts provide a new theory for why larger mammals tend to have longer faces
Dec 12, 2023 15:57 pm UTC| Nature
A horse walks into a bar and the bartender asks, why the long face? Its one of the oldest puns in the book, and theres no shortage of entertaining answers. With our new review we add our own scientific explanation:...
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