Can golf courses help save the planet? Ask a herd of wild pigs

Jan 04, 2024 04:35 am UTC| Sports Nature

An Arizona golf course, so picture-perfect it was described as the Imax of golf, was wantonly trashed by intruders in the autumn of 2023. But no, this was not Just Stop Oil back for another round, nor the result of a...

COP28 deal confirms what Australia already knows: coal is out of vogue and out of time

Dec 18, 2023 01:20 am UTC| Nature

At the COP28 climate summit in Dubai this week, nations agreed to transition away from coal, oil and gas . After 30 years of COP meetings, the world has finally committed to weaning itself from these carbon-based drivers...

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River deltas are threatened by more than climate change – leaving hundreds of millions of people at risk

Dec 13, 2023 14:22 pm UTC| Nature

Perilously situated between rising sea levels and pressures from upstream lie coastal river deltas and their roughly half a billion inhabitants. These regions have played an important role in societal development since the...

Why the long face? Experts provide a new theory for why larger mammals tend to have longer faces

Dec 12, 2023 15:57 pm UTC| Nature

A horse walks into a bar and the bartender asks, why the long face? Its one of the oldest puns in the book, and theres no shortage of entertaining answers. With our new review we add our own scientific explanation:...

8 ways to tone down the Christmas lights to help wildlife – and why we should

Dec 12, 2023 15:55 pm UTC| Nature

The Australian government has launched a campaign asking people to switch off light pollution to protect wildlife. So, what does the science say? Should we rethink Christmas lights? In our latest report, we reviewed...

How agriculture can make the most of one of the world’s biggest carbon sink, soil

Dec 07, 2023 08:01 am UTC| Nature

Its right under our feet. We barely notice as we go about our lives, yet it is nothing less than the largest carbon repository among all of Earths ecosystems. This distinction is awarded neither to forests, nor to the...

New genetic research uncovers the lives of Bornean hunter-gatherers

Dec 06, 2023 07:57 am UTC| Nature

Borneo is one of the worlds most biodiversity-rich regions, home to ancient rainforests and an immense variety of wildlife. Among its inhabitants are the Punan Batu, a group of contemporary nomadic hunter-gatherers with...