Rats are more human than you think – and they certainly like being around us
Dec 05, 2023 05:37 am UTC| Nature
Rats have a somewhat unfortunate tendency to enjoy living where people live. Thats how a biologist tried to explain peoples hatred for the rodents in a television news feature about rats gnawing electrical cables in parked...
Cruel summer ahead – why is Australia so unprepared?
Dec 05, 2023 05:37 am UTC| Nature
2023 has shattered climate records, accompanied by extreme weather that has left a trail of devastation and despair, according to the World Meteorological Organization at COP 28. Some of the most significant extreme heat...
Dec 05, 2023 05:36 am UTC| Nature
Takahē are a striking bird and a national treasure in Aotearoa New Zealand. But the history and origin story of this flightless swamp hen have become a point of scientific debate. Our latest research uncovered the...
Dec 05, 2023 05:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Humanitys emissions of greenhouse gases have caused rapid global warming at a rate unprecedented in at least the past 2,000 years. Rapid global warming has been accompanied by increases in the frequency and intensity of...
Dec 04, 2023 12:51 pm UTC| Nature Life
For the first time ever, food and agriculture took center stage at the annual United Nations climate conference in 2023. More than 130 countries signed a declaration on Dec. 1, committing to make their food systems ...
A home among the gum trees: will the Great Koala National Park actually save koalas?
Dec 04, 2023 12:28 pm UTC| Nature
Its a visionary idea: a national park for koalas. Conceived over a decade ago, the idea gained prominence after Labor took the idea to three successive elections in New South Wales. Now theyre in office and have finally...
COP28: the climate summit’s first Health Day points to what needs to change in NZ
Dec 01, 2023 08:14 am UTC| Nature
Climate change has many effects, but one of the most significant will feature for the first time at COP28 its impact on human health. Now under way in Dubai, the latest Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework...
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
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects