Utilities, solar energy and the fight for your roof
Feb 11, 2016 08:32 am UTC| Technology Nature
By many accounts, the spread of solar power is unstoppable. Costs continue to fall at a blistering pace, solutions to give consumers a solar-powered home without needing to connect to the grid for back-up power are...
Bushfires are pushing species towards extinction
Feb 11, 2016 08:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Massive bushfires in recent months have tragically claimed peoples lives and destroyed their homes. These events are becoming more common as our warming and drying climate increases the frequency, intensity and extent of...
How Africa can up its game to meet environmental challenges
Feb 11, 2016 07:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Africa has enormous natural resource wealth. At the same time it is extremely vulnerable to the impact of environmental degradation, including climate change. These are two good reasons, one might assume, for prioritising...
Dry is the new normal: Southwest U.S. has gotten drier and more prone to droughts
Feb 11, 2016 07:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
A few large weather systems make all the difference between a wet and a dry year in the Southwest. Coming during the winter and spring, they account for the bulk of the rain and snow the regions receives. My colleagues...
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...
Seven ways we can fight back against flooding
Feb 04, 2016 15:14 pm UTC| Nature
There is no panacea for flood events, but there a range of things we can either do better or start doing to mitigate or adapt to them. The recent UK floods caused by Storm Desmond in the first week of December 2015 were...
Good news on rain forests: they bounce back strong, storing more carbon than thought
Feb 04, 2016 01:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
When you cut and burn a tropical forest, youre left with a barren plain of cracked red mud, incapable of supporting life the opposite of the teeming, hyperdiverse array of life that was destroyed. Once the trees are gone,...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects