Firms in greener countries pay less to borrow money – new study
Apr 27, 2016 08:30 am UTC| Research & Analysis Nature
After years of pressure from consumers, employees and activists, the business world is increasingly convinced of the importance of improving its impact on society and the natural environment. In a UN/Accenture survey from...
Great Barrier Reef bleaching stats are bad enough without media misreporting
Apr 27, 2016 01:47 am UTC| Nature
The widespread bleaching event occurring across the Great Barrier Reef is unprecedented in scale and severity. It has rightly gained global media attention. Sadly, however, some of the headlines it has generated are...
New climate science centre doesn't make up for CSIRO cuts: experts
Apr 26, 2016 07:32 am UTC| Nature
Hobart will be home to a new climate science research centre in plans announced by the CSIRO. The centre, which will focus on climate measurement and modelling, will be staffed by 40 climate scientists and guarantee...
How ancient warm periods can help predict future climate change
Apr 25, 2016 23:36 pm UTC| Nature
Several more decades of increased carbon dioxide emissions could lead to melting ice sheets, mass extinctions and extreme weather becoming the norm. We cant yet be certain of the exact impacts, but we can look to the past...
Rising carbon dioxide is greening the Earth - but it's not all good news
Apr 25, 2016 23:09 pm UTC| Nature
Dried lake beds, failed crops, flattened trees: when we think of global warming we often think of the impacts of droughts and extreme weather. While there is truth in this image, a rather different picture is...
Has climate change really improved U.S. weather?
Apr 25, 2016 01:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
According to a new report published in Nature on April 20, 2016 by Patrick Egan and Megan Mullin, weather conditions have improved for the vast majority of Americans over the past 40 years. This, they argue, explains why...
Paris climate deal: leaders signed up to a marathon without first getting fit
Apr 22, 2016 08:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
At the Paris climate summit in December 2015, 195 countries adopted the first universal, legally binding, global climate deal. Impressive stuff. A major success for the United Nations and met with much congratulatory...
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