How should the U.S. government help coal communities?
Feb 15, 2016 11:15 am UTC| Law
As the United States adopts policies to lower greenhouse gas emissions, some communities will benefit from the shift to lower-carbon energy sources. But others will lose. Communities that have historically relied on...
CSIRO cuts: climate science really does need to shift its focus towards adaptation
Feb 15, 2016 00:53 am UTC| Insights & Views
Climate scientists have recently been outraged by job losses within CSIRO. Sixty climate jobs are likely to be lost. Chief executive Larry Marshall has said the reaction to the cuts from scientists has been more like...
The Supreme Court just handed the next president a powerful lever to control U.S. climate policy
Feb 13, 2016 01:31 am UTC| Law Nature
Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to halt, at least temporarily, implementation of one of the central components of the federal effort to constrain U.S. climate emissions, the Clean Power Plan. The...
Will extreme weather events get Americans to act on climate change?
Feb 07, 2016 15:49 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Scientists are drawing a link between climate change and extreme weather events with increasing confidence. An American Meteorological Society report, for example, studied 28 individual weather events occurring in...
Australia, the US and Europe are climate 'free-riders': it's time to step up
Feb 07, 2016 15:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The Paris climate agreement finalised in December last year heralded a new era for climate action. For the first time, the worlds nations agreed to keep global warming well below the critical threshold of 2℃. This is...
Who politicized the environment and climate change?
Feb 01, 2016 13:27 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
An environmental activist friend of mine recently shook her head and marveled at the extraordinary accomplishments of the last several months. Still lots of work to be done, she said. But wow! This has been an epic period...
Hasta la vista El Niño - but don’t hold out for ‘normal’ weather just yet
Jan 28, 2016 02:53 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Australias rainfall is perhaps the most variable of any continent on Earth. When averaged across the country, rainfall in 2015 was only slightly below normal. However, there were large areas of both extreme dry and...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US election: why it’s not the protesters’ votes that the Democrats should worry about
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects