22 ways to cut your energy bills (before spending on solar panels)
Jun 15, 2016 04:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature Law
Winter is here! Despite many Australians opting not to heat their homes to the point of complete comfort, many of us nevertheless will soon receive a nasty surprise when the energy bills arrive. With Australias...
Is coal the only way to deal with energy poverty in developing economies?
Jun 14, 2016 08:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature Economy
As the world moves to combat climate change, its increasingly doubtful that coal will continue to be a viable energy source, because of its high greenhouse gas emissions. But coal played a vital role in the Industrial...
The Paris climate agreement needs coordinated carbon prices to be successful
Jun 14, 2016 08:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The Paris climate agreement was an important success for climate diplomacy as nation states showed a strong will to cooperate on climate action. But instead of imposing binding national emission targets, the Paris...
Social Media Revolution Series
Climate change makes a comeback – with the help of social media
Jun 14, 2016 07:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
In what has been shaping up as the election that forgot climate change, there are signs emerging in the Coalitions election campaign that it is starting to listen to polls, its own focus groups and social media chat on...
Signals from the noise of urban innovation in the world's 'second-least-liveable' city
Jun 11, 2016 17:04 pm UTC| Nature
Politicians, policymakers, urban planners, real-estate developers and corporate executives pay close attention to city liveability rankings. The global urban elite sees these as measures of the metropolitan good. Yet, as...
New technology offers hope for storing carbon dioxide underground
Jun 09, 2016 23:50 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
To halt climate change and prevent dangerous warming, we ultimately have to stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. While the world is making slow progress on reducing emissions, there are more radical options,...
Putting CO2 away for good by turning it into stone
Jun 09, 2016 23:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
We seriously need to do something about CO2 emissions. Besides shifting to renewable energy sources and increasing energy efficiency, we need to start putting some of the CO2 away before it reaches the atmosphere. Perhaps...
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