The 2023 megafires burnt more than 84 million hectares of desert and savannah in northern Australia. That’s larger than the whole of NSW, or more than three times size of the UK.
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El Niño can direct more warm water to the base of West Antarctic ice shelves, accelerating melting and increasing global sea level.
The strong El Niño that started in 2023 will still have big impacts at least through March. Here’s what to watch for next.
With smartphones as commonplace as towels and sunscreen in the beach bag, why not add coastal data collection to your list of holiday activities this summer? Look for the CoastSnap camera cradles.
El Niño looms large as we head into the Australian summer. But can everyone expect hot and dry weather? What drives the weather in your state?
An atmospheric scientist explains how El Niño works, this year’s oddities and why this phenomenon doesn’t last long.
A group of agricultural and soil scientists has serious concerns about the way credits are awarded for soil carbon sequestration in Australia.
New research reveals how trees respond to extreme heat. Most trees lose more water than models predict. Some species cope better than others. Access to water will be critical for the hot summer ahead.
It’s not just ocean temperatures that determine whether we have El Niño or La Niña. Air circulation also plays a role, and it’s changing in unexpected ways.
The bad news: Extreme heat is probably going to stick around for a couple of more years.
The predicted El Niño is a worry, but it doesn’t guarantee the record-breaking heat we’re seeing in parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
The new El Niño is unlikely to significantly increase global food prices, but some parts of the world will feel the pain.
The Pacific Ocean is entering the hot phase of its temperature cycle, an event that will turbo-charge global warming.
The El Niño is a reminder that bushfires are part of Australian life. But whether or not this fire season is a bad one, Australia must find a better way to manage bushfires.
An El Niño weather-warming phase is underway in the Pacific – but what does this mean for the weather in Europe?
Over the past three years, Earth’s climate system has accumulated an average of 11 Hiroshima bombs’ worth of excess energy per second. And it’s showing in the current surge in ocean temperature.
2016 was the world’s warmest year on record, due in part to a very strong El Niño event. But 2023 (and 2024) could beat that record – what should we expect?
The scale of climate threat is beyond the tools we have to manage the Great Barrier Reef. New measures and sustained effort are needed.
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.
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Senior Research Associate, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Australian National University
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Chief Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO, CSIRO
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Climate scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Clinical Associate Professor and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
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Adjunct Professor, Monash University
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Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Associate professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Bushfire Science, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
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Research Fellow, Monash University
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Head of Operational Climate Services, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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PSM, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University
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Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
