Several states are experimenting with weather modification to try to generate snow as water supplies shrink. An atmospheric scientist explains the history behind it – and the challenges.
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Flood threatened settlements must get everyone involved in an effort to become truly resilient cities.
Rising temperatures mean longer, earlier pollen seasons, but the bigger problem is what carbon dioxide will do to the amount of pollen being released. A 200% increase is possible this century.
Environment minister Sussan Ley successfully argued that she doesn’t have a duty of care to protect young people from climate change. Here’s why the judges unanimously ruled in her favour.
Conflict in Eastern Europe must not cause global climate action to falter. We must ensure the renewables industry can withstand such global shocks.
While climate change poses new threats to trees, it also creates new opportunities for us to work with trees as allies. We must not work against them.
Clearing alien trees before the drought hit could have reduced the impact of climate change on water supply during the ‘Day Zero’ drought.
The findings indicates natural disasters such as the current floods in southeastern Australia can influence election results.
Seaweed was thought to be a vital tool in the fight to slow climate change. But it turns out seaweed ecosystems may be a natural source of carbon dioxide – and not a sink.
Australia has finally opened the regulatory doors to offshore wind farms. What do we need to do to make the roll out fast and build supply chains?
Simply providing passive information is not enough. Governments must find better ways to deliver important messages about natural hazards.
One in 1,000 years style descriptions apply to probabilities that don’t change. The likelihood of severe floods is increasing.
Resurgence of SUV sabotage highlights the failure of climate policy and an evolving protest strategy.
Many see carbon markets as key to channelling billions of dollars into reducing carbon emissions and protecting forests, but they also put the well-being of communities at risk.
As disasters become more frequent under climate change, building back damaged electricity poles and wires seems maddeningly futile.
Data analysis suggests local activity will intensify the effects of global warming - so adapting means rethinking national development strategies
Disasters are becoming more frequent and severe as the climate heats up – but Australia is badly under-prepared.
Councils are trying to balance competing priorities in urban development, with limited resources and stretched budgets.
New research suggests 75% of the rainforest has become less resilient to stress since the early 2000s.
The little ice age unleashed famines and revolutions which tested the very bonds of society.
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