Solar panels in Sahara could boost renewable energy but damage the global climate – here's why
Feb 12, 2021 08:13 am UTC| Technology Nature
The worlds most forbidding deserts could be the best places on Earth for harvesting solar power the most abundant and clean source of energy we have. Deserts are spacious, relatively flat, rich in silicon the raw...
Feb 12, 2021 07:58 am UTC| Nature Science
Water is essential to life as we know it and it seems completely normal to have water all around us. Yet Earth is the only known planet to be covered by oceans. Do we know exactly where its water came from? This is not...
Home-delivered food has a huge climate cost
Jan 19, 2021 02:35 am UTC| Business Nature
Over the past few years, Australians have embraced online food delivery services such as UberEats, Deliveroo and Menulog. But home-delivered food comes with a climate cost, and single-use packaging is one of the biggest...
Caravan communities: older, underinsured and overexposed to cyclones, storms and disasters
Jan 19, 2021 02:33 am UTC| Nature
News of storms battering parts of Queensland and the threat posed by Cyclone Kimi reminded me of a recent experience Id had. A few months after Cyclone Marcus unleashed havoc on Darwin in 2018, uprooting trees and...
Yellowstone volcano: USGS warns of possible eruption
Dec 31, 2020 06:37 am UTC| Science Nature
Many scientists are keeping watch over the activity occurring in the Yellowstone volcano because of its potential to inflict large-scale damage in the United States. Now, scientists at the USGS have now warned of a...
Climate change: Stopping meat production not a universal solution to global warming
Dec 22, 2020 07:03 am UTC| Science Nature
Climate change is one of the biggest problems the world faces today, even in the midst of a pandemic. With scientists looking into possible solutions to end the crisis, new research has suggested that not every solution...
Climate change: Rising temperatures may have caused the collapse of civilizations along central Asia
Dec 18, 2020 08:49 am UTC| Science Nature
Climate change is one of the big issues that we face today in the world but it has always played a part in history. A recent study suggests that the collapse of civilizations in Central Asia may have been caused by climate...
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
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight