The UN's 1.5°C special climate report at a glance
Oct 08, 2018 15:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a special report today on the impacts of global warming of 1.5℃ above pre-industrial levels. The report outlines the considerable challenges of meeting the Paris...
Australia has two decades to avoid the most damaging impacts of climate change
Oct 08, 2018 15:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The long-awaited special report on the science underpinning the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5℃ has been released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It tells us that hitting...
New UN report outlines 'urgent, transformational' change needed to hold global warming to 1.5°C
Oct 08, 2018 15:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
A landmark report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, commissioned at the breakthrough 2015 summit that brokered the Paris climate agreement, outlines whats at stake in the worlds bid to limit global...
Why Indonesia's tsunamis are so deadly
Oct 04, 2018 15:43 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The magnitude 7.5 earthquake, and subsequent tsunami, that struck Indonesia days ago has resulted in at least 1,200 deaths. Authorities are still gauging the extent of the damage, but its clear the earthquake and...
Palu earthquake and tsunami swept away some of Indonesia’s most important human rights activism
Oct 04, 2018 15:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
When the earthquake and tsunami hit the city of Palu, Central Sulawesi, last Friday, they not only brought wreckage and death. The twin disasters also swept away efforts by activists and the municipal administration to...
Reviewing Indonesia's tsunami early warning strategy: Reflections from Palu
Oct 04, 2018 15:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The 7,5 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that had hit Palu and Donggala in Central Sulawesi Indonesia last Friday, has killed at least 1,300 people. Some 99 people are missing, 799 injured and nearly 60 thousand...
Fishing forecasts can predict marine creature movements
Oct 04, 2018 14:35 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Do you check the weather forecast before getting dressed in the morning? If you do, then youre making a decision in real time, based on dynamic processes that can vary greatly over space and time. Marine animals can be...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
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