As the climate changes, are 750 million refugees predicted to move away from flooding?
Aug 04, 2016 10:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The Conversation is fact-checking claims made on QA, broadcast Mondays on the ABC at 9.35pm. Thank you to everyone who sent us quotes for checking via Twitter using hashtags #FactCheck and #QandA, on Facebook or by...
State of the Climate 2015: global warming and El Niño sent records tumbling
Aug 04, 2016 10:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The State of the Climate in 2015 report, led by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was released yesterday. Unfortunately, it paints a grim picture of the worlds climate last year. For a second...
Can 'climate corridors' help species adapt to warming world?
Aug 03, 2016 06:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
If you flip over a log in a forest in the southeastern U.S., you are likely to find a squirming salamander. A healthy forest floor, full of fallen branches and rotting leaves, provides these amphibians with the...
What causes asthma? Clues from London's Great Smog with implications for air pollution today
Jul 26, 2016 06:20 am UTC| Health Nature
Asthma is a chronic respiratory condition with no known cure. It impacts people of all ages through episodic constrictions of the airways, which may be even worse than it sounds. Approximately 334 million people worldwide...
Can a battery factory ever be fully green?
Jul 26, 2016 06:11 am UTC| Technology Nature
Like Henry Ford before him, Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk is taking a new approach to car making. Where Ford focused on manufacturing a car that the mass market could afford, Musk is keen to build a vehicle that the...
How a single word sparked a four-year saga of climate fact-checking and blog backlash
Jul 10, 2016 21:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
In May 2012, my colleagues and I had a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Climate, showing that temperatures recorded in Australasia since 1950 were warmer than at any time in the past 1,000...
Learning to live with wildfires: how communities can become 'fire-adapted'
Jul 10, 2016 20:47 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
In recent years wildfire seasons in the western United States have become so intense that many of us who make our home in dry, fire-prone areas are grappling with how to live with fire. When I moved to a small town in...
Canada needs a national strategy for homeless refugee claimants
An eclipse for everyone – how visually impaired students can ‘get a feel for’ eclipses