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Climate Change 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...

Climate Change Series

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...

Climate Change Series

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,...

Climate Change Series

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...

Taking the city’s pulse: we need to link urban vitality back to the planet

Jun 08, 2016 05:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Back in the 1960s, the influential urban planner and journalist Jane Jacobs put American cities under the microscope. Jacobs was aiming to explain, and suggest ways of remedying, the hollowing out, or doughnut effect,...

How to stop vampire bats wreaking havoc (no stakes or garlic required)

Jun 08, 2016 05:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Health Nature

During the darkest hours of the night, they fly and hunt for prey. They live in caves and ruined buildings and have to drink blood every night to survive. They can bite with their fangs without you even noticing. No wonder...

Climate Change Series

Flood deaths are avoidable: don't go in the water

Jun 07, 2016 08:25 am UTC| Nature

The flooding rains that have drenched eastern Australia have tragically left several people dead and several more missing in New South Wales and Tasmania. This is an all-too-common story flooding rains are a major cause...