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...
Two extremes – how the rich and poor spend their Chinese New Year
Feb 07, 2016 15:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
One of the biggest annual celebrations around the world is upon us. February 8 marks the start of the Lunar New Year in China. Also known as the Spring Festival, it is the most important holiday in the Chinese calendar,...
Press urges Britain to 'Keep calm and blame Europe'
Feb 07, 2016 15:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The latest polls are telling us that the British public are moving in droves to the Brexit camp: YouGov has found that 45% would vote to leave the EU against 36% who would vote to stay while 19% declared themselves as dont...
Proving that the Zika virus causes microcephaly
Feb 07, 2016 15:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
When the Zika virus was first discovered in Uganda in the 1940s, it was thought to be harmless. It caused a rash and, in some cases, a slightly elevated temperature. But in the past few months in Brazil, it has been linked...
Like AIDS before it, Zika virus exposes weakness in Catholic moral teaching
Feb 07, 2016 15:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
The relationship between the Zika virus and a sharp increase in the number of children born with microcephaly in Brazil seems probable but as yet unproven. However, it has resulted in various health warnings to women in...
Super Bowl advertisers spend $5 million for 30 seconds: is there a better use for that cash?
Feb 07, 2016 15:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Sports
The Super Bowl is not just the biggest and most-watched event of the year in the United States, its also one of the most important for advertisers, who shell out an estimated US$5 million for every half-minute of air...
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’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects