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...
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...
Massive storms are pumping pollution into our oceans: time to clean up our cities
Jun 07, 2016 08:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The massive storms that have lashed Australias east coast over the past few days are not just a threat to lives and property, but also to our marine wildlife. The increasing urbanisation of our coastlines, and...
Sydney's wild weather shows home-owners are increasingly at risk
Jun 07, 2016 07:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Eastern Australias wild weather has left coastal homes teetering on the brink of collapse, and has eroded beaches by up to 50m in parts of Sydney. Now the attention turns to the clean-up. There are several legal issues...
How the event that killed off the dinosaurs wiped out life in Antarctica
Jun 02, 2016 09:55 am UTC| Nature
The CretaceousPaleogene mass extinction 66m years ago was the most recent of five similar crises to have devastated life on Earth over the last 540m years. It rapidly killed off an estimated 76% of species around the...
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
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight