Palm oil — the sworn enemy of environmental defenders — is ‘an insanely productive plant’ that generates far more oil per hectare of land than alternatives like soybean and coconut, says Hannah Ritchie. Humanity has made great strides in recent decades: air is cleaner; poverty, deforestation and childhood mortality have fallen; gasoline cars—and maybe coal—are
The New Caledonian fer has the largest genome of any organism on Earth. A small, seemingly unremarkable fern that only grows on a remote Pacific island was on Friday crowned the Guinness World Record holder for having the largest genome of any organism on Earth. The New Caledonian fern, Tmesipteris oblanceolata, has more than 50
Credit: Kevin Bidwell from Pexels Just southwest of Boise lies one of the last vast swaths of solitude in the United States. The Owyhee Canyonlands, with stunning red gulches, winding rivers and a moon-like landscape where a volcano with a caldera once 600 times larger than Mount St. Helens erupted, stands as the largest unprotected
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Leaders transforming complex organisations with Salesforce came together at Salesforce’s World Tour Sydney 2024 to share key learnings for IT and other transformation stakeholders on how to manage complex, customer-focused digital transformations. The projects included a complete tech stack redesign and transformation at HBF, where since 2018 the health services organisation has been moving towards
Visualising the colours birds perceive reveals the ultraviolet patterns that are usually hidden from us. Credit: Vasas et al. (2024) PLOS Biology, Author provided If you’ve ever wished you could see the world though the eyes of another animal, we have good news for you. We also wondered about that and, being scientists who specialize
Learning about the place: the treat is always on the right or left side only, and the plate on the other side is empty. Credit: Eniko Kubinyi When we point at an object, the toddler focuses on the object, while the dog usually takes the gesture as a directional cue. In a recent study, researchers
Historical trends of inequality and annual mean temperature in South Africa (sources: World Income Inequality Database (WIID), NIDS, and ERA5). Credit: Environmental Research Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad0448 Scientific evidence shows that climate change is already negatively affecting inequality and poverty, but the extent to which this happens at the micro-level remains relatively unexplored. Investigating the
Ukraine has been trying to protect its sites from Russian attack, like this statue in Lviv. More than 50 world sites hope for inclusion on the UN’s coveted heritage list at a meeting opening in Riyadh Sunday, while some incumbents, including Venice and Kyiv, face the risk of a downgrade. UNESCO, the United Nation’s educational
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain “We’re here because this moment demands an explanation.” So begins the first ever episode of New York Times’ The Daily podcast, delivered by host Michael Barbaro in his now famous style. It arrived on Wednesday February 1, 2017—less than a fortnight after Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States.