Five things the UK must do to prepare for the next heatwave
Sep 27, 2018 16:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The 2018 summer heatwave in the UK broke records and it wont be the last spell of such severe heat. In fact, climate change means that hot summers which would once occur twice a century may soon occur twice a decade. As...
How to make computers faster and climate friendly
Sep 27, 2018 15:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology Nature
Your smartphone is far more powerful than the NASA computers that put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon in 1969, but it is also an energy hog. In computing, energy use is often considered a secondary problem to...
Guardian dogs, fencing, and 'fladry' protect livestock from carnivores
Sep 27, 2018 10:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Farmers have struggled for millennia to protect their livestock from wolves, lions, bears, and other large carnivores. Its expensive and time-consuming for farmers, governments and related agencies. Many current approaches...
Puerto Rico has not recovered from Hurricane Maria
Sep 25, 2018 18:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Puerto Rico was in crisis long before Hurricane Maria hit on Sept. 20, 2017. For years, this U.S. territory had been struggling with debt, economic crisis and drought. In May 2017, the government defaulted on US$73...
It's teamwork: how dolphins learn to work together for rewards
Sep 25, 2018 18:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Cooperation can be found across the animal kingdom, in behaviours such as group hunting, raising of young, and driving away predators. But are these cooperating animals actively coordinating their behaviour, or are they...
Strawberry sabotage: what are copycat crimes and who commits them?
Sep 25, 2018 18:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Last week, authorities urged consumers in Queensland, NSW and Victoria to throw away strawberries from two Queensland brands after needles were discovered in punnets purchased at a Woolworths. Since then, the localised...
Microplastics are getting into mosquitoes and contaminating new food chains
Sep 25, 2018 18:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
There is no doubt that plastic pollution in oceans is a growing worldwide problem. The internet is full of images of seabirds and other marine animals entangled in plastic waste, and animals starve because their guts are...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects