President Trump could kill the Paris Agreement - but climate action will survive
Nov 11, 2016 02:50 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature Politics
November 9 will likely become the day that the Paris Agreement died, but not when the goal of limiting warming to 2℃ slipped out of reach. President Donald Trump can, and likely will, drop out of the Paris climate...
Keeping warming below 1.5℃ is possible - but we can't rely on removing carbon from the atmosphere
Nov 09, 2016 19:31 pm UTC| Science Nature
This week international leaders are meeting in Marrakech to thrash out how to achieve the Paris climate agreement, which came into force on Friday. The Marrakech meeting is the 22nd Congress of Parties (or COP22) to the...
Why rising seas will hit some cities more than others
Nov 08, 2016 14:22 pm UTC| Nature
Sea-level rise is a loaded statement and instils concern, scepticism and humour. From a sceptical stand point one could think about your own experience. I have been going to the beach near my parents house on the south...
Six different ways to think about 'extinction'
Nov 02, 2016 17:45 pm UTC| Nature
The WWFs new Living Planet report highlights a 58% decline in the abundance of 3,706 animal species since 1970, reinforcing the fear that humanity is bringing about a sixth mass extinction. The roots of this fear...
Unnatural disasters: how we can spot climate's role in specific extreme events
Oct 31, 2016 10:38 am UTC| Nature
These days, after an extreme weather event like a cyclone, bushfire, or major storm, its common to find people asking: was it climate change? We also often hear people saying it is impossible to attribute any single...
What wind, currents and geography tell us about how people first settled Oceania
Oct 25, 2016 17:12 pm UTC| Nature
Just look at a map of Remote Oceania the region of the Pacific that contains Hawaii, New Zealand, Samoa, French Polynesia and Micronesia and its hard not to wonder how people originally settled on these islands. Theyre...
How to reverse the dangerous decline in low-carbon innovation
Oct 24, 2016 09:34 am UTC| Nature
The Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to less than 2C at the end of the 21st century demands that we sharply reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, reaching near zero in less than 100 years. Achieving this...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects