Jan 23, 2024 04:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Few of us pay much attention to our superannuation. Under the Superannuation Guarantee, employers pay at least 11% of salaries into their employees super funds without workers having to do anything. These accumulating...
Jan 15, 2024 03:09 am UTC| Business
Capturing carbon dioxide from the air or industries and recycling it can sound like a win-win climate solution. The greenhouse gas stays out of the atmosphere where it can warm the planet, and it avoids the use of more...
'Cli-fi' might not save the world, but writing it could help with your eco-anxiety
Jan 09, 2024 23:07 pm UTC| Business
The consequences of climate change weigh on all of us, especially as we face an El Niño summer, with floods and fires already making themselves felt in the Australian environment. But even outside of being...
Global triggers: why these five big issues could cause significant problems in 2024
Jan 04, 2024 04:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The tensions between the US and China made the global economy shudder in 2023. The ramifications of the Ukrainian war echoed beyond the countrys border. In Africa, the coup détat in Niger and Gabon contributed to...
No climate for cricket: how global warming is putting the heat on NZ’s summer game
Jan 04, 2024 04:41 am UTC| Sports
The recently concluded mens Cricket World Cup in India reached record audiences. But there was one thing the organisers did not want those viewers to see (other than Indias defeat by Australia in the final): crickets own...
Dec 13, 2023 14:22 pm UTC| Nature
Perilously situated between rising sea levels and pressures from upstream lie coastal river deltas and their roughly half a billion inhabitants. These regions have played an important role in societal development since the...
How to assess the carbon footprint of a war
Dec 13, 2023 08:16 am UTC| Economy
We know that war is bad for the environment, with toxic chemicals left polluting the soil and water for decades after fighting ceases. Much less obvious are the carbon emissions from armed conflicts and their long-term...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight