Tipping point: how we predict when Antarctica's melting ice sheets will flood the seas
Mar 13, 2016 23:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Antarctica is already feeling the heat of climate change, with rapid melting and retreat of glaciers over recent decades. Ice mass loss from Antarctica and Greenland contributes about 20% to the current rate of global...
Nature's hidden wealth is conservation's missed opportunity
Mar 11, 2016 05:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Australia has one of the worst extinction records in the modern world. Since European settlement, a third of the countrys native mammals have disappeared. How can we stem the losses? A recent article in Nature...
Aviation emissions are rising – and industry solutions are just technological myths
Mar 10, 2016 23:15 pm UTC| Technology Nature
Imagine you are the governments Minister for Transport: the economy is prospering, global oil prices are falling, and airlines are ordering hundreds of new airliners and investing in infrastructure in order to expand their...
How climate denial gained a foothold in the Liberal Party, and why it still won't go away
Mar 10, 2016 02:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
It seems the Liberal Party is still having trouble letting go of climate denial, judging by the New South Wales branchs demand that the Turnbull government arrange a series of public debates on climate science. Leaving...
Global food production threatens to overwhelm efforts to combat climate change
Mar 09, 2016 22:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Each year our terrestrial biosphere absorbs about a quarter of all the carbon dioxide emissions that humans produce. This a very good thing; it helps to moderate the warming produced by human activities such as burning...
If planners understand it's cool to green cities, what's stopping them?
Mar 09, 2016 02:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Our cities are getting hotter, more crowded and noisier. Climate change is bringing more heatwaves, placing pressure on human health, urban amenity, productivity and infrastructure. Urban residents naturally want to...
Australia's coal mines are pouring methane gas into the atmosphere
Mar 08, 2016 23:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Methane emissions are one of the major concerns surrounding coal seam gas. But we should also be paying attention to other sources of methane, in particular those from coal mining. By dealing with these we could make...
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
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects