Heat is coming for our crops. We have to make them ready
May 09, 2024 05:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Nature
Australias vital agriculture sector will be hit hard by steadily rising global temperatures. Our climate is already prone to droughts and floods. Climate change is expected to supercharge this, causing sudden flash...
Granting legal ‘personhood’ to nature is a growing movement – can it stem biodiversity loss?
Apr 26, 2024 06:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Biodiversity is declining at rates unprecedented in human history. This suggests the ways we currently use to manage our natural environment are failing. One emerging concept focuses on giving legal rights to...
From the coast to the deep sea, changing oxygen levels affect marine life in different ways
Apr 25, 2024 06:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Earths atmosphere maintains a constant level of oxygen, whether it is a wintry, rainy day or hot summer. Across the ocean, oxygen concentrations vary enormously between different places and over time. Sometimes oxygen...
Apr 25, 2024 06:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
I had the good fortune to care for the sugar gum at The University of Melbournes Burnley Gardens in Victoria where I worked for many decades. It was a fine tree tall and dominating. Less than a year after my retirement,...
The weather experiment that really flooded Dubai
Apr 25, 2024 06:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
A reckless experiment in Earths atmosphere caused a desert metropolis to flood. That was the story last week when more than a years worth of rain fell in a day on the Arabian Peninsula, one of the worlds driest regions....
Apr 25, 2024 05:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
How do we understand past societies? For centuries, our main sources of information have been pottery sherds, burial sites and ancient texts. But the study of ancient DNA is changing what we know about the human past,...
The high and mighty Himalayas: A biodiversity hotbed facing significant challenges
Apr 24, 2024 09:36 am UTC| Nature
The Himalayas are home to a vast diversity of species, consisting of 10,000 vascular plants, 979 birds and 300 mammals, including the snow leopard, the red panda, the Himalayan tahr and the Himalayan monal. The region...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
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IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects