Sharkathon 2017 is here: How to watch it like a scientist
Jul 22, 2017 07:41 am UTC| Nature
Just when you thought it was safe to turn on your television, the Discovery Channels Shark Week and National Geographic Wilds SharkFest are hitting the air with competing daily programming. As director of the Florida...
Human noise pollution is disrupting parks and wild places
Jul 18, 2017 12:22 pm UTC| Nature
As transportation networks expand and urban areas grow, noise from sources such as vehicle engines is spreading into remote places. Human-caused noise has consequences for wildlife, entire ecosystems and people. It reduces...
Rising sea temperatures will hit fisheries and communities in poor countries the hardest
Jul 12, 2017 19:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Despite having some of the worlds smallest carbon footprints, small island developing states and the worlds least-developed countries will be among the places most vulnerable to climate changes impacts on marine life, new...
Africa’s tropical forests could be next in line as global food demand grows
Jul 12, 2017 18:47 pm UTC| Nature
At a bare floored restaurant on the edge of the Dja Faunal Reserve in Cameroon, I asked the owner what there was to eat. She gestured to a poster on the wall. It was an illustrated guide of 44 animal species under threat...
How we discovered that brain connections shape memories
Jul 08, 2017 18:18 pm UTC| Nature
Reliving and sharing our personal past is part of what makes us human. It creates a sense of who we are, allows us to plan for the future and helps us form relationships. But we dont all remember our past in the same way....
Artificial environments are turning the world outside in, but that's no way to save the planet
Jul 08, 2017 18:14 pm UTC| Nature
When meltwater breached the global seed bank near Svalbard in May, after unusually warm weather, it served as a stark reminder of the need to safeguard humanitys future in the face of increasing turbulence. Buried 130...
Growing food in the post-truth era
Jun 30, 2017 17:33 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature Economy
This article is part of an ongoing series from the Post-Truth Initiative, a Strategic Research Excellence Initiative at the University of Sydney. The series examines todays post-truth problem in public discourse: 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