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This physical effect does explain how some massive natural phenomena like hurricanes behave. But on the scale of water in your sink – not so much.
The winter solstice is past, but bundle up – January is when winter really arrives in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
From Greece, to the UK, to Japan and even Sweden, a slew of places in the Northern Hemisphere are suffering extreme heat. And the chances of extreme heat records tumbling are growing all the time.
Astronomy on the continent has been given a much needed boost with Ghana’s converted radio telescope between it and South Africa, to conduct scientific observations.
A scholar explains the rich historical roots of Easter and how it has evolved over the centuries.
The first signs that humans were warming the climate appeared much earlier in the northern hemisphere - way back in the 1830s. But now the trend is emerging all over the globe.
Many works published on decolonisation originate from Ngugi wa Thiongo’s idea of decolonising the African mind. Imperialism, he writes, has left its mark on the minds of the previously colonised.
Climate and sea level changes over time have led to the disappearance of the true seals, although these mammals still exist in the Antarctic.
If you are one of the many people with a larger than normal heating bill for recent months, you would probably be under the impression that it has been exceptionally cold in the northern hemisphere. We’ve…
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Climate Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Climate scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Australian National University
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Director, Ikigai Research, University of Tasmania
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Research Fellow, Exeter Climate Systems Group, University of Exeter
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Curator of Cenozoic Palaeontology, Research and Exhibitions, Iziko Museums of South Africa; Honorary Research associate Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town
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Post doctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Lecturer, Monash University
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Associate professor, University of Wollongong
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Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; Deputy Director for the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science; Deputy Director for the Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, Australian National University
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Lecturer in Religious Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
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Manager of the Ghana Radio Telescope Observatory, Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute
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Professor in Climate Change Impacts, Cardiff University
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Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
