Climate change is disrupting ocean currents. We’re using satellites and ships to understand how
Oct 09, 2023 13:06 pm UTC| Nature
Earths ocean is incredibly vast. Some parts of it are so remote that the nearest human habitation is the International Space Station. As the world warms, what happens in the ocean and what happens to the ocean will be...
How Arctic landscapes and Canadian cityscapes share a similar pattern
Oct 09, 2023 13:06 pm UTC| Nature
The year 2023 has been one of extremes, from heatwaves that baked millions across the globe and made the summer the worlds hottest on record to the fires that forced tens of thousands to evacuate across Western Canada....
6 reasons why global temperatures are spiking right now
Oct 09, 2023 13:04 pm UTC| Nature
The world is very warm right now. Were not only seeing record temperatures, but the records are being broken by record-wide margins. Take the preliminary September global-average temperature anomaly of 1.7C above...
Bison are sacred to Native Americans − but each tribe has its own special relationship to them
Oct 09, 2023 12:56 pm UTC| Nature
The American bison, or American buffalo as they are commonly called, were once close to extinction. Their numbers dropped from 30-60 million to around 500 because of overhunting in the 19th century. But they made an...
Oct 09, 2023 12:55 pm UTC| Nature
To most people, complex technologies separate modern humans from their ancestors who lived in the Stone Age, thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago. In todays fast changing world, older technologies, even those...
New Zealand’s carbon emissions are on the way down – thanks in part to policies now under threat
Oct 09, 2023 03:46 am UTC| Nature Politics
It may have been largely overlooked in the election debates, but New Zealands greenhouse gas emissions are finally on the way down. Annual emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels are the lowest...
There's a hidden source of excess nutrients suffocating the Great Barrier Reef. We found it
Oct 09, 2023 03:46 am UTC| Nature
The Great Barrier Reef is one of Australias most important environmental and economic assets. It is estimated to contribute A$56 billion per year and supports about 64,000 full-time jobs, according to the Great Barrier...
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