FxWirePro: CAD/JPY to slip further around 90.50 upon multiple confirmation
Dec 08, 2015 06:10 am UTC| Insights & Views
Lot of mystifying has been happening in CADJPY when we consider the intermediate trend of this pair, it is struggling since 21st August to clear and sustain crucial resistance at 92.90 levels, since then weve been noticing...
Removing CO2 from the atmosphere won't save us: we have to cut emissions now
Dec 08, 2015 02:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Over 190 countries are negotiating in Paris a global agreement to stabilise climate change at less than 2℃ above pre-industrial global average temperatures. For a reasonable chance of keeping warming under 2℃ we can...
Growth in fossil fuel emissions slowed in 2015, so have we finally reached the peak?
Dec 08, 2015 02:49 am UTC| Insights & Views
Despite robust global economic growth over the past two years, worldwide carbon emissions from fossil fuels grew very little in 2014, and might even fall this year. A report released today by the Global Carbon Project...
In the driver's seat of evolution
Dec 08, 2015 02:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
Humans have had a profound influence over evolution; ours and the evolution of many other species. So much so today that we are without doubt in the drivers seat of evolution for many species, including our own. Weve...
Why treat gene editing differently in two types of human cells?
Dec 07, 2015 16:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
At the conclusion of the recent International Summit on Human Gene Editing in Washington, DC, its organizing committee released a much-anticipated statement recommending how human genetic engineering should be regulated....
Wall Street watchdog SEC can't end violence in Congo
Dec 07, 2015 16:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
A civil war has raged in the Democratic Republic of Congo for more than 15 years, resulting in the deaths of millions and displacing millions more. Fueling the violence has been the illicit sale of minerals such as tin,...
If abolishing China's one child policy led to more children, would it be so bad?
Dec 07, 2015 16:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
After 35 years, the Chinese government announced the abolition of its controversial one child policy for one that will allow all citizens to have up to two children. It is not clear if the lifting of the ban will actually...
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