A new global tinderbox: The world’s northern forests
Rapidly rising temperatures, changes in precipitation, and increased lightning strikes are leading to ever-larger wildfires in the northern forests ...
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‘Predatory’ Publishing Up
The rise of open-access publishing, combined with pressure on academics to get published, has caused a spectacular increase in the number of articles spewed out by “predatory” journals ...
Businesses dig in to Sustainable Development Goals
Each time SolarCity sells a megawatt of solar power in the United States, it lights up a school in Central America or Africa by installing solar-based electricity — which amounts to 1,000 schools this year.
Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs had help from volcanoes, study says
Scientists have long blamed a single culprit in the sudden and violent mass extinction that took out the dinosaurs ...
China to hasten roll-out of car charging network: Xinhua
China wants to speed construction of a national network to charge electric cars, to help reach an ambitious goal of 5 million green vehicles on its roads by 2020
What is behind a spike in Australian shark attacks?
The number of shark attacks in New South Wales have been particularly high this year, even though estimated shark numbers are at record lows.
Saudi Arabia is facing a cash crunch
Saudi Arabia's mountain of oil money is shrinking.
Chinese parents laud study trips for students
Short summer breaks help children adjust to foreign study methods and develop life skills
US universities invest $185 million in study abroad
US universities and study abroad organisations have committed to spend $185 million (£122 million) over the next five years to make study abroad more accessible ...
Can NASA’s far-out travel plans bring sustainability to Spaceship Earth?
America’s space agency is going long. Its next generation of explorations will send travelers on journeys beyond the moon, to Mars and maybe beyond.
