New technology offers hope for storing carbon dioxide underground
Jun 09, 2016 23:50 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
To halt climate change and prevent dangerous warming, we ultimately have to stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. While the world is making slow progress on reducing emissions, there are more radical options,...
Putting CO2 away for good by turning it into stone
Jun 09, 2016 23:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
We seriously need to do something about CO2 emissions. Besides shifting to renewable energy sources and increasing energy efficiency, we need to start putting some of the CO2 away before it reaches the atmosphere. Perhaps...
Taking the city’s pulse: we need to link urban vitality back to the planet
Jun 08, 2016 05:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Back in the 1960s, the influential urban planner and journalist Jane Jacobs put American cities under the microscope. Jacobs was aiming to explain, and suggest ways of remedying, the hollowing out, or doughnut effect,...
How to stop vampire bats wreaking havoc (no stakes or garlic required)
Jun 08, 2016 05:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Health Nature
During the darkest hours of the night, they fly and hunt for prey. They live in caves and ruined buildings and have to drink blood every night to survive. They can bite with their fangs without you even noticing. No wonder...
Flood deaths are avoidable: don't go in the water
Jun 07, 2016 08:25 am UTC| Nature
The flooding rains that have drenched eastern Australia have tragically left several people dead and several more missing in New South Wales and Tasmania. This is an all-too-common story flooding rains are a major cause...
Massive storms are pumping pollution into our oceans: time to clean up our cities
Jun 07, 2016 08:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The massive storms that have lashed Australias east coast over the past few days are not just a threat to lives and property, but also to our marine wildlife. The increasing urbanisation of our coastlines, and...
Solved mystery of the deep-sea mushroom just raises new questions
Jun 07, 2016 08:01 am UTC| Nature
Its not often scientists suggest theyve found an entirely new group of animals, something so different that they cant be considered as belonging to one of the main groups, such as shellfish, insects, worms, jellyfish,...
Gabon: post-coup dialogue has mapped out path to democracy – now military leaders must act
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects