Australians care about animals but don't buy ethical meat
Australians clearly care about animal welfare: our research has found 92% shoppers in Sydney considered animal welfare to be important.
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The science is clear: We have to start creating our low-carbon future today
This week's release of the special report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has put scientific evidence on the front page of the world's newspapers.
Bitcoin better than the dollar?
The name cryptocurrency does not inspire trust. Advanced statistical analysis for the Bitcoin market carried out at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow, however, has not shown any ...
The informal water markets of Bangalore are a view of the future
Bangalore is home to some 10 million people. It might also be the next city to experience "day zero": when it runs out of ground water entirely.
Shifting desires for forbidden goods
Ahead of a symposium organised by the Oxford Martin School on the Illegal Wildlife Trade, and international IWT conference hosted in London this week, Diogo Veríssimo, from Oxford University's Department of Zoology, reveals ...
Going, going, gone! Tokyo's Tsukiji holds last tuna auction before move
Tokyo fishmongers gathered before dawn Saturday for one final tuna auction at the world-famous Tsukiji market before it closed its doors to move to a new site.
Vietnam makes fresh ivory, pangolin haul from Nigeria
Vietnam has seized eight tonnes of pangolin scales and elephant ivory shipped from Nigeria, police said Friday, the second such haul in a week in a country which both consumes and trafficks huge volumes of endangered African ...
University isn't everything when it comes to employment outcomes
There is increasing pressure being placed on universities to deliver better "value for money". Universities minister Sam Gyimah wants school leavers to have greater access to the labour market outcomes for each individual ...
How capitalism ruined our relationship with bacteria
There are many rational reasons that motivate consumers to spend US$65 billion annually on household cleaning products. But non-rational mechanisms are nevertheless still at work in the cleaning products market, as in all ...
Wave of worries takes shine off Paris Motor Show
Cutting-edge concept cars and promises of self-driving "lounges" painted the picture of a bright future as the Paris Motor Show got under way Tuesday, but that's not the message being sent by industry chiefs.
