Shrinking the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is a disaster for paleontology
Sep 24, 2018 07:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
In the early 1980s, paleontologists Jeff Eaton and Rich Cifelli started digging for fossils in one of the most inaccessible regions of the United States: the Kaiparowits Plateau of southern Utah. They were looking not for...
What zebrafish reveal about importance of looks vs personality in choosing a mate
Sep 24, 2018 07:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
When it comes to finding a suitable partner to raise a family, we know that our looks and the way we behave are both crucial to how well we succeed. If there is such a thing as love at first sight, it probably involves a...
The 'natural resource curse' and artisanal mines: the case of Burkina Faso
Sep 24, 2018 06:38 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Is there a natural resources curse as economists call it? This burning question arises in all resource-rich countries where the majority of the population is living in poverty. Political instability, conflicts, or poorly...
Giving environmental water to drought-stricken farmers sounds straightforward, but it's a bad idea
Sep 18, 2018 12:40 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack last week suggested the government would look at changing the law to allow water to be taken from the environment and given to farmers struggling with the drought. This is a bad...
Politics and paper towels: Disputing disaster death tolls
Sep 18, 2018 12:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature Politics
Hurricane Florences battering of the southern United States has brought natural disasters and their devastating impacts back into the daily news cycle. The Atlantic hurricane season is in full swing and while earlier...
Lack of climate policy threatens to trip up Australian diplomacy this summit season
Sep 10, 2018 13:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics Nature
Australia has navigated a somewhat stormy passage through the Pacific Islands Forum in Nauru. Scott Morrisons new-look government faced renewed accusations at the summit about the strength of Australias resolve on climate...
Massive solar and wind farms could bring vegetation back to the Sahara
Sep 09, 2018 20:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy is an important and necessary step towards averting climate change. However, in our efforts to go green, we also need to be mindful of other consequences, both intended and...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US student Gaza protests: five things that have been missed
Will Solomon Islands’ new leader stay close to China?
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects