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After an eight-year hiatus due to COVID, ‘FestPAC’ is back. With its unique combination of song, dance, history and politics, this year’s festival in Hawai'i is more relevant than ever.
After a year of record-breaking global heat with El Niño, will La Niña bring a reprieve? That depends on where you live and how you feel about hurricanes.
Kelp forests around the world, and in Canada, are under threat. New research sheds further light on the health, and resilience, of these crucial ecosystems.
The strong El Niño that started in 2023 will still have big impacts at least through March. Here’s what to watch for next.
A new initiative is pinpointing areas in the world’s oceans that are key habitats for sharks and their relatives, so that governments can consider protecting these areas.
The author of a major new essay collection reflects on the shifting cultural and political realities in the Pacific, and why it remains an ‘unequal ocean’.
The best science is not always the best engineering when it comes to building codes. It’s also a problem across the US, as an engineer who works on disaster resilience explains.
New research looks at how different species have managed to cross geographic barriers throughout history and whether their individual traits played a crucial role in these journeys.
An atmospheric scientist explains how El Niño works, this year’s oddities and why this phenomenon doesn’t last long.
Japan’s much-criticised plan to release wastewater from Fukushima into the Pacific is underway – and many are concerned.
Exploring the often unseen, and poorly understood, nuances of diversity within coral reefs may prove essential for ensuring the long-term health of Earth’s oceans.
This may buy us time, but many reefs are still doomed without serious action on climate change.
Forecasters warned of ‘potentially historic rainfall’ and ‘dangerous to locally catastrophic flooding.’ A hurricane scientist explains what El Niño, a heat dome and mountains have to do with the risk.
An El Niño weather-warming phase is underway in the Pacific – but what does this mean for the weather in Europe?
The official forecast calls for a strong El Niño by winter, but other models suggest it might dip in and out. An atmospheric scientist explains.
Current forecasts suggest a warm tropical Pacific will be interfering with what could otherwise be a ferocious Atlantic hurricane season.
El Niño years put Hawaii and the Mexican Riviera on alert for destructive tropical storms and hurricanes.
The mystery surrounding a forgotten marine mammal, a remote archipelago and man-made pollution.
No place on Earth is free from pollution.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Forrest Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, University of Victoria
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Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Professor of Coastal Oceanography, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Chief Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO, CSIRO
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Tampa
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A/Prof., School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Water Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Head of Operational Climate Services, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Sydney
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Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Ornithology, Charles Sturt University
