Birds, bees and bugs: your garden is an ecosystem, and it needs looking after

Sep 27, 2016 17:44 pm UTC| Nature

Whether you live in an urban apartment or a rural homestead, your outdoor area is more than just a private space. Ecologically, a garden is another jigsaw piece in the landscape. Whatever their size, gardens can...

Climate Change Series

What's holding Russia back from ratifying the Paris climate agreement?

Sep 27, 2016 17:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that his country will ratify the Paris climate agreement in October, a significant boost in the campaign to have the agreement become legally binding by the end of the...

How monkeys make friends and influence each other

Sep 27, 2016 13:30 pm UTC| Nature

For us humans, getting involved in an aggressive conflict can be costly, not only because of the risk of injury and stress, but also because it can damage precious social relationships between friends and the same goes...

Climate Change Series

IPCC chair Hoesung Lee: we can meet 2°C global warming target if we act fast

Sep 26, 2016 08:31 am UTC| Nature

Hoesung Lee was elected chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just one month before the landmark Paris climate talks of 2015. The agreement that emerged from that meeting committed the worlds...

China and India's race to dam the Brahmaputra river puts the Himalayas at risk

Sep 26, 2016 08:06 am UTC| Nature

The mighty Himalayas act as the water tower of the South and Southeast Asian region. More than ten major rivers originate from the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. And for the past decade, India and China, the two...

Why military and market responses are no way to save species from extinction

Sep 26, 2016 05:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

The arrival of climate change brings with it large-scale habitat loss and unprecedented species extinctions. The booming black and grey markets in already-threatened animals, including the rhino, elephant, and pangolin,...

BP in the Bight: why the planned oil spill response is too slow to protect the coast

Sep 23, 2016 09:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature Business

Australias offshore petroleum industry regulator is set to rule next week whether to grant oil giant BPs application to drill in the Great Australian Bight. But BPs environmental plan, released last week, suggests that...