Global electronic waste up 21% in five years, and recycling isn't keeping up
Jul 14, 2020 09:56 am UTC| Nature
Each year, the total amount of electric and electronic equipment the world uses grows by 2.5 million tonnes. Phones, radios, toys, laptops if it has a power or battery supply its likely to join a growing mountain of...
Air pollution exposure linked to higher COVID-19 cases and deaths – new study
Jul 14, 2020 09:51 am UTC| Nature
The global death toll from COVID-19 has now passed half a million. To slow the spread of the disease, we need to better understand why some places have higher numbers of cases and deaths than others. One factor that...
Gold mining leaves deforested Amazon land barren for years, find scientists
Jul 02, 2020 15:52 pm UTC| Nature
Travel through the rainforest in Guyana, in northern South America, and youll often hear the indigenous adage: a forest has no end and no beginning to explain their natural cycle of disturbance and recovery. For the people...
Jul 02, 2020 15:39 pm UTC| Nature
On Saturday, Cairns Regional Council will disperse up to 8,000 endangered spectacled flying-foxes from their nationally important camp in central Cairns. The camp is one of the last major strongholds of the species,...
Jun 26, 2020 07:13 am UTC| Nature
The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work. The big idea Days of extreme high heat and extreme air pollution are both increasing worldwide. Last November, New Delhi experienced a week of the...
How deforestation helps deadly viruses jump from animals to humans
Jun 26, 2020 07:13 am UTC| Nature
The coronavirus pandemic, suspected of originating in bats and pangolins, has brought the risk of viruses that jump from wildlife to humans into stark focus. These leaps often happens at the edges of the worlds tropical...
Can Asia end its uncontrolled consumption of wildlife? Here's how North America did it a century ago
Jun 21, 2020 12:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
It was a dark time for animals. Poaching was rampant. Wild birds and mammals were being slaughtered by the thousands. An out-of-control wildlife trade was making once-common animals hard to find and pushing rare species...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
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