Sexual selection in action: Birds that attract multiple mates change their songs more quickly
Feb 24, 2019 06:50 am UTC| Nature
How do individuals choose their mates? Why are some more successful at attracting mates than others? These age-old questions are broadly relevant to all animals, including human beings. Darwins theory of natural...
What happens to the natural world if all the insects disappear?
Feb 19, 2019 17:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
There are an awful lot of insects. Its hard to say exactly how many because 80% havent yet been described by taxonomists, but there are probably about 5.5m species. Put that number together with other kinds of animals with...
Why stop at plastic bags and straws? The case for a global treaty banning most single-use plastics
Feb 08, 2019 12:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Single-use plastics are a blessing and a curse. They have fueled a revolution in commercial and consumer convenience and improved hygiene standards, but also have saturated the worlds coastlines and clogged landfills. By...
Rising seas: to keep humans safe, let nature shape the coast
Feb 08, 2019 11:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Even under the most conservative climate change scenarios, sea levels 30cm higher than at present seem all but certain on much of the UKs coast by the end of this century. Depending on emission scenarios, sea levels one...
Green buildings must do more to fix our climate emergency
Feb 06, 2019 23:35 pm UTC| Business Nature
After more than three decades of talk about the potential of building green, weve still failed to change the way we design and construct buildings so that the built environment stops being a dominant contributor to runaway...
How a bushfire can destroy a home
Feb 06, 2019 23:35 pm UTC| Nature
Ten years after the devastation of Black Saturday, building design has largely been unrecognised as an area worthy of research. We have advanced our knowledge of the materials used in the construction of homes in...
Our 'bee-eye camera' helps us support bees, grow food and protect the environment
Feb 05, 2019 09:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Walking through our gardens in Australia, we may not realise that buzzing around us is one of our greatest natural resources. Bees are responsible for pollinating about a third of food for human consumption, and data on...
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects