Does higher-density city development leave urban forests out on a limb?
Apr 14, 2016 02:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Greater recognition of the benefits of urban forests is focusing efforts from all levels of government to defend and improve them. Perhaps the most iconic of these efforts is New York Citys Million Trees Program. Other...
We need to change what people think modern slavery is
Apr 14, 2016 02:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
What images does the word slavery conjure up in your mind? Men in iron collars shipped from Africa on huge wooden galleons, forced to work the fields under the whip of the master? Perhaps you think that slavery is an old...
Apr 14, 2016 02:45 am UTC| Insights & Views
Before European imperialism fatally undermined Chinas own dynastic system, it was customary for Chinas neighbours to acknowledge its dominance by sending tribute missions to the imperial court. While Malcolm Turnbull is...
The ageing population is a threat to women’s economic welfare
Apr 14, 2016 02:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Many women in the UK are unaware of the financial risk they face. A financial risk brought about by the ageing population. Across the globe, about two thirds of informal care for frail older people falls to female...
Budget company tax cut a hard sell politically
Apr 14, 2016 02:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
After a GST increase to finance big income tax cuts disappeared as a viable option for the May budget, attention centred on reducing the 30% company tax rate. But, assuming the government goes ahead with a cut for...
Mr Nice, drug trafficking – and how Britain now grows its own weed
Apr 14, 2016 02:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
The celebrated Oxford-educated cannabis smuggler, Howard Marks aka Mr Nice is no longer with us. He devoted his early career to international cannabis trafficking (mainly into the US), which eventually brought him a...
Celebrities and politicians tell us their deepest, darkest secrets. Why?
Apr 14, 2016 02:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment Politics
Public figures sharing private information is the norm nowadays. Our thirst for information, combined with the wonders of the internet and lax approaches to privacy, is creating a perfect storm. News outlets, websites...
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’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects