Perth Green Growth Plan puts strategic environmental assessments to the city test
May 12, 2016 00:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
City planning has many approaches that have been used to enable better economic, social and environmental outcomes. The planning profession has been doing strategic assessments of urban land development opportunities and...
The UAE wants to build a 'rainmaking mountain' – are we all ok with that?
May 09, 2016 12:11 pm UTC| Nature
Eglwyswrw is a real place. This village in Wales is as long on rain as it is short on vowels. Last winter, it rained for 85 days in a row, just missing out on setting the British record. Theres a reason why it is so...
Sea-level rise has claimed five whole islands in the Pacific: first scientific evidence
May 09, 2016 06:40 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Sea-level rise, erosion and coastal flooding are some of the greatest challenges facing humanity from climate change. Recently at least five reef islands in the remote Solomon Islands have been lost completely to...
How corruption is hurting Mexico City’s efforts to tackle air pollution
May 06, 2016 01:40 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
On March 15 this year, Mexico City encountered its worst environmental crisis of the last decade. A gray fog, comprising noxious air pollutants, cast a shadow over the sprawling metropolitan area for two days. Vehicles...
How psychology can help us solve climate change
May 05, 2016 15:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The Paris agreement on climate change calls for a global responsibility to cooperate. As we are often reminded, we urgently and drastically need to limit our use of one shared resource fossil fuels and its effect on...
The poster is political: how artists are challenging climate change
May 05, 2016 06:50 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
We all have a poster we remember. Mine was taped to a bookshop window in the Melbourne suburb of Prahran. A stark black and white image of a boy as young as I was then, about 13, stared out at me. He was naked from the...
Budget repair, climate risks and global concerns all ignored in this conflicted effort
May 05, 2016 06:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Economy
This Federal Budget was crafted with multiple, sometimes conflicting, objectives. To repair the budget, to neutralize some of the Oppositions initiatives, to address some tax pressure points-such as bracket creep, globally...
Putin’s Russia: first arrests under new anti-LGBT laws mark new era of repression
Canada needs a national strategy for homeless refugee claimants