Climate change is happening in your garden: here's how to spot it
Sep 30, 2016 09:43 am UTC| Nature
As the weather warms and days lengthen, your attention may be turning to that forgotten patch of your backyard. This week weve asked our experts to share the science behind gardening. So grab a trowel and your green...
Record high to record low: what on earth is happening to Antarctica's sea ice?
Sep 29, 2016 02:42 am UTC| Nature
2016 continues to be a momentous year for Australias climate, on track to be the new hottest year on record. To our south, Antarctica has also just broken a new climate record, with record low winter sea ice. After a...
Sep 29, 2016 00:31 am UTC| Nature
Just as people pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, the land also absorbs some of those emissions. Plants, as they grow, use carbon dioxide and store it within their bodies. However, as the...
Conservation decisions must protect the livelihoods of people living in Africa
Sep 29, 2016 00:08 am UTC| Nature Law
182 member states of the worlds biggest convention on wildlife conservation have committed at this years gathering to consider how trade decisions impact community livelihoods. The Convention on the International...
How animals are adapting to cope with their noisiest neighbours – humans
Sep 28, 2016 16:21 pm UTC| Nature
Human noise is forcing animals around the world to go through changes, unknown and invisible to most of us. It will be another case of the survival of the fittest: some species will adapt and thrive; others will struggle...
Fertile ground: what you need to know about soil to keep your garden healthy
Sep 28, 2016 15:27 pm UTC| Nature
Most people think of soil only in terms of the dirt that sticks stubbornly to their hands and shoes. But soil is much more than that. A handful of soil is a small and very complex ecosystem which includes soil...
How trees communicate via a Wood Wide Web
Sep 27, 2016 18:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
A new book, The Hidden Life of Trees, claims that trees talk to one another. But is this really the case? The simple answer is that plants certainly exchange information with one another and other organisms such as...
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