Growing palm oil on former farmland cuts deforestation, CO₂ and biodiversity loss
Nov 24, 2019 14:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Few natural products are as maligned as palm oil, the vegetable oil thats in everything from chocolate spread to washing up liquid. On the island of Borneo, oil palm plantations have replaced nearly 40% of the native...
Celebrity greens kale and seaweed were long considered food of last resort
Nov 24, 2019 14:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Many of our diets are, to some extent, determined by the whims of fashion. This is not an astute observation, nor a particularly new one just consider the 1970s obsession with pineapple and quiche. But social media is...
Why it is important to regulate shark fisheries in Indonesia
Nov 24, 2019 14:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Indonesia is home to 117 shark species. The 2015 report from the Food and Agriculture Agency, FAO, ranked Indonesia in first place among 40 nations that still fish for sharks. In the last decade, Indonesia contributed...
Light versus dark – the color of the meat is due to the job of the muscle
Nov 24, 2019 14:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
As families gather together this holiday season, the lucky ones will avoid impassioned discussions about religion and politics. But another argument is almost inevitable: white meat versus dark meat. Light meat lovers...
Smoke haze hurts financial markets as well as the environment
Nov 24, 2019 14:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy Nature
Sydney is currently blanketed by smoke haze from severe bushfires that have burned through New South Wales. Air pollution levels on Thursday reached hazardous levels for the second time in a week. The NSW Rural Fire...
Tons of acorns? It must be a mast year
Nov 19, 2019 03:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
If you have oak trees in your neighborhood, perhaps youve noticed that some years the ground is carpeted with their acorns, and some years there are hardly any. Biologists call this pattern, in which all the oak trees for...
Government flood response harms the most vulnerable – not everyone can get 'resilient'
Nov 19, 2019 03:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
After severe flooding in the North of England, many affected residents have been left feeling let down and left behind by the systems in place to protect them. Our research suggests that they, and many other communities...
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