Imagining your own SeaChange – how media inspire our great escapes
Oct 28, 2018 12:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Many Australians dream about moving to the country, escaping the city for good. We might have grown up watching television shows such as All Creatures Great and Small. More recently, we might have tuned in to McLeods...
The rise of sponges in Anthropocene reef ecosystems
Oct 28, 2018 12:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Coral reefs across the world have been altered dramatically in recent decades. Human activities have contributed to mass coral die-offs in tropical oceans. The degradation of reef-building corals is expected to worsen...
How we discovered a new species of the 'missing link' between dinosaurs and birds
Oct 26, 2018 09:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Perhaps one of the worlds best known fossils is Archaeopteryx. With its beautifully preserved feathers, it has long been regarded as the first bird in the fossil record, and is often called the icon of evolution. Only a...
How many people helped Alfred Russel Wallace?
Oct 26, 2018 07:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Naturalist Alfred Russel Wallaces collecting expedition in Southeast Asia between 1854 and 1862 is rightly famous. His historic discoveries remain important today. These discoveries include the greatest division between...
We have so many ways to pursue a healthy climate – it's insane to wait any longer
Oct 26, 2018 07:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
As a broadly trained life scientist, my concern about climate change isnt the health of the planet. The rocks will be just fine! What worries me is a whole spectrum of wicked challenges, from sustaining food production, to...
Requiem or renewal? This is how a tropical city like Darwin can regain its cool
Oct 24, 2018 00:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
On my way to work, I walk across the intersection of Knuckey and Wood streets. Most days a homeless man on his haunches is mouthing bureaucratic platitudes: Lets workshop this? We need to have meeting about this! Can...
Helping farmers in distress doesn't help them be the best: the drought relief dilemma
Oct 24, 2018 00:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Two years ago we were celebrating just about the best year for farmers ever. Now many farmers particularly in New South Wales and southern Queensland are in the grip of drought. It underlines just how variable the...
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