Featured
-
-
News Feature |
Scientists under arrest: the researchers taking action over climate change
Fed up with a lack of political progress in solving the climate problem, some researchers are becoming activists to slow global warming.
- Daniel Grossman
-
Nature Index |
R&D budget cut could be the final straw for South Korea’s young scientists
As early-career researchers, we fear that our peers will struggle to stay afloat amid sudden and confusing budget constraints.
- Bongjae Kim
- & Ara Go
-
Editorial |
It’s time for countries to honour their million-dollar biodiversity pledges
Promises to safeguard biodiversity need to be translated into money in the bank.
-
World View |
Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret
First-of-its-kind US bill would address the environmental costs of the technology, but there’s a long way to go.
- Kate Crawford
-
Book Review |
Greener cities: a necessity or a luxury?
Are urban trees and parks essential to improving the environment and human health — or just a sop to middle-class ideals of gentrification? Two books debate these opposing views.
- Timon McPhearson
-
News |
Largest post-pandemic survey finds trust in scientists is high
Study of more than 70,000 people suggests that trust levels vary among countries and are linked to political orientation.
- Carissa Wong
-
Correspondence |
Build global collaborations to protect marine migration routes
- Jianguo Du
- , Bin Chen
- & Wenjia Hu
-
Correspondence |
Deep-sea mining opponents: there’s no free lunch when it comes to clean energy
- Saleem H. Ali
-
Correspondence |
Replace Norway as co-chair of High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy
- Diva J. Amon
- , Douglas J. McCauley
- & Henrik Österblom
-
Editorial |
EU climate policy is dangerously reliant on untested carbon-capture technology
Europe’s ambition for emissions reductions is to be welcomed — but look at the detail, and significant hazards emerge.
-
News |
Indonesian election promises boost to research funding — no matter who wins
Scientists regard campaign promises with scepticism, however, and criticize the country’s science super-agency.
- Ardila Syakriah
-
Book Review |
The ‘Bill Gates problem’: do billionaire philanthropists skew global health research?
Personal priorities are often trumping real needs and skewing where charitable funding goes.
- Andy Stirling
-
Nature Careers Podcast |
‘It reflects the society we live in where a young person does not feel life is worth living’
With youth suicide rates rising, it’s vital that mental health forms part of global well-being targets, says Shekhar Saxena.
- Dom Byrne
-
News |
US and China likely to delay renewal of key science pact again
Relations have changed between the two nations, so negotiators are hashing out new terms in the 45-year-old agreement.
- Natasha Gilbert
- & Smriti Mallapaty
-
Editorial |
Cyberattacks on knowledge institutions are increasing: what can be done?
For months, ransomware attacks have debilitated research at the British Library in London and Berlin’s natural history museum. They show how vulnerable scientific and educational institutions are to this kind of crime.
-
Correspondence |
Urban trees: how to maximize their benefits for humans and the environment
- Lina Tang
- , Guofan Shao
- & Peter M. Groffman
-
Correspondence |
Clinical trials: Japan’s opt-out policy raises risks of adverse drug responses
- Mira Namba
- , Yudai Kaneda
- & Tetsuya Tanimoto
-
Nature Index |
Innovative funding systems are key to fighting inequities in African science
A few countries and a select number of institutions will continue to take the vast majority of grants unless funders build diversity into their grant programmes.
- Susan Gichoga
-
Book Review |
Science and government: can the power struggle ever end?
Similar goals but different strategies underlie tensions between science and the state, an in-depth analysis explains.
- Rhona Mijumbi
-
-
Correspondence |
Brazil must reverse gear on Amazon road development
- Lucas Ferrante
- & C. Guilherme Becker
-
World View |
Academia needs radical change — mothers are ready to pave the way
The research system must lose its overly rigid attitude towards career progression — and mothers are uniting to make that happen.
- Fernanda Staniscuaski
-
News |
Indian forest act faces challenge in Supreme Court
Ecologists, bureaucrats and conservationists say India’s amended Forest Conservation Act will reduce biodiversity and harm livelihoods.
- Gayathri Vaidyanathan
-
News |
Trump’s presidential push renews fears for US science
If he wins a second term, the former US president has promised to limit the authority of federal agencies and employees, including scientists.
- Jeff Tollefson
-
News Feature |
A giant fund for climate disasters will soon open. Who should be paid first?
More than three billion people stand to benefit from a historic climate loss-and-damage fund. But spending it involves agonizing choices about who has suffered most.
- Gayathri Vaidyanathan
-
News Feature |
Unethical studies on Chinese minority groups are being retracted — but not fast enough, critics say
Campaigners who want scrutiny of biometrics research on Uyghurs, Tibetans and other groups are frustrated by slow progress.
- Dyani Lewis
-
Correspondence |
Resolve climate-policy uncertainties in the US and China
- Dayong Zhang
- , Kun Guo
- & Qiang Ji
-
Correspondence |
Funders must get behind brain project data sharing
- Helena Ledmyr
- , Mathew Abrams
- & Randy McIntosh
-
Editorial |
Cities matter to the world’s future — science must serve them better
From governance to climate impacts, the world’s urban environments face many difficulties. A new journal, Nature Cities, aims to bring together researchers who are rising to the challenge.
-
World View |
Coping with climate change could be a matter of what building you’re in
Extreme heat and cold brought on by climate change put people at risk. Beefing up building codes now could help to save lives.
- Meredydd Evans
-
-
Nature Index |
Self-citations in around a dozen countries are unusually high
Researchers behind the analysis think that policy incentives in these places are to blame.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
-
Comment |
Impacts for half of the world’s mining areas are undocumented
As the race to extract minerals and metals for clean-energy technologies accelerates, researchers must take more steps to map and study mines globally.
- Victor Maus
- & Tim T. Werner
-
-
Correspondence |
New UK immigration rules threaten academic mobility
- Alexander C. Lees
- & Ben C. Sheldon
-
Correspondence |
Panama says no to more mining — a win for environmentalists
- Juan Carlos Villarreal A.
- , Nelva B. Villarreal
- & Luis F. De León
-
-
Comment |
To build a better world, stop chasing economic growth
The year 2024 must be a turning point for shifting policies away from gross domestic product and towards sustainable well-being. Here’s why and how.
- Robert Costanza
-
Correspondence |
Is Brazil ready for gender equality in science?
- Fernanda Staniscuaski
- , Leticia de Oliveira
- & Charikleia Tzanakou
-
-
News |
Has your research influenced policy? Use this free tool to check
Sage Policy Profiles scans a database of 10 million documents to show researchers where their papers have been cited.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
-
Outlook |
Webcast: How water researchers are rethinking the global flood crisis
A panel of specialists discuss the latest insights on protecting people, habitats and infrastructure from the risks of flooding.
-
Outlook |
Water: a source of life and strife
Water is an essential resource, but it can also cause conflict, expose people to pollution and put communities at risk in the form of flooding.
- Herb Brody
-
Outlook |
The most important issue about water is not supply, but how it is used
The world faces a series of deep and worsening crises that demand radical changes in how we understand, manage and use fresh water.
- Peter Gleick
-
Nature Index |
North–south publishing data show stark inequities in global research
Major investment and a shift in strategy are needed to back up the endeavour of researchers.
- Simon Baker
-
Nature Index |
Is the EU–Africa innovation plan toothless?
Meaningful investment might be essential for fixing power imbalances in science and innovation.
- Abdullahi Tsanni
-
News Feature |
Amazon protector: the Brazilian politician who turned the tide on deforestation
As Brazil’s environment minister, Marina Silva helped to rein in rampant deforestation and rebuild institutions that were weakened by the previous government.
- Meghie Rodrigues
-
Analysis
| Open AccessA synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19
Evaluation of evidence generated to test 19 proposed policy recommendations and guidance for the future.
- Kai Ruggeri
- , Friederike Stock
- & Robb Willer
-
Correspondence |
Can AI deliver advice that is judgement-free for science policy?
- Stefano Canali
- & Francesco Barone-Adesi