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Carbon double-take: shoppers will turn to eco-friendly groceries, mainly when they’re cheap. Flickr/Bruce A Stockwell

Do carbon labels change shopping behaviour?

By Jerry Vanclay

If everyday items were labelled according to the carbon emissions embodied in them, would shoppers change what they buy? And if they did, would it make a difference in the grand scheme of things? Voluntary…
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It’s not just greenhouse gases that affect climate: other air pollution could be changing atmospheric circulation. NASA Goddard Photo and Video

Poleward-shifting climate zones – where are they headed and why?

By Joseph Kidston

The Earth’s principal climatic zones appear to be shifting poleward. If this continues, as climate models project, the weather patterns that give rise to deserts in the subtropics, and stormy wet weather…
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The move away from nuclear energy may be counterproductive. Greenpeace Finland

We can’t abandon nuclear now

By George Dracoulis

It won’t surprise many people that world carbon emissions have failed to slow down, but the fact we’re now at risk of surpassing targets set for nine years hence, intended to limit the global rise in temperature…
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Not that large? $26 is the single most important number in Garnaut’s report. AAP

Is Garnaut’s $26 per tonne the right price for carbon?

By John Quiggin

The most important single number in the latest Garnaut Review is 26, the proposed starting value for the carbon tax, expressed in dollars per tonne of carbon dioxide emitted. By coincidence, this is exactly…

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Deep Earth carbon cycles cracked

UC Davis

Carbon modelling is easier to create for surface cycles, but deep in the Earth’s crust things become a lot more difficult…

Fire could drive climate change

CSIRO

Fire – one of nature’s primary carbon-cycling mechanisms – will become an increasingly important driver of atmospheric change…

Carbon released at highest ever rates

Penn State University

The rate of release of carbon into the atmosphere is nearly ten times as fast as during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum…

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