Humans light 85% of bushfires, and we do virtually nothing to stop it
Nov 19, 2019 02:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Its hard to comprehend why someone would deliberately light a bushfire. Yet this behaviour regularly occurs in Australia and other countries. We would go a long way to preventing bushfires if we better understood this...
What 3,000-year-old Egyptian wheat tells us about the genetics of our daily bread
Nov 05, 2019 02:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Human societies need food and that often means wheat, which was first cultivated more than 12,000 years ago. Today, around one in five calories consumed by humans is from wheat. Over this time, humans have moved wheat...
Climate crisis: the countryside could be our greatest ally – if we can reform farming
Nov 05, 2019 02:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Around 20% of the UKs farms account for 80% of the countrys total food production, and they do this on about half of all the farmed land there is. At least 80% of farms in the UK dont produce very much at all. In...
Recycling plastic bottles is good, but reusing them is better
Nov 05, 2019 02:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Last week Woolworths announced a new food delivery system, in collaboration with US company TerraCycle, that delivers grocery essentials in reusable packaging. The system, called Loop, lets shoppers buy products from...
Australia's only active volcanoes and a very expensive fish: the secrets of the Kerguelen Plateau
Nov 04, 2019 23:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Stretching towards Antarctica lies a hidden natural oasis - a massive underwater plateau created when continents split more than 100 million years ago. Straddling the Indian and Southern Oceans, the Kerguelen Plateau is...
Suburban change is transforming city life around the world
Oct 31, 2019 06:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
We are living on a suburban planet. While the majority of humans around the world now call some form of urban habitat their home, most of us live, work and play in environments that would not usually be recognized as the...
How to get fishers more involved in decisions that affect them
Oct 29, 2019 19:33 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
South Africas approach to managing its fishing industry is supposed to include all interested parties. Fishers and government should work together to make decisions. But this has proven to be easier said than done. The...
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