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Wealthy countries have committed to mobilise up to $US100 billion a year by 2020 for climate change action in developing countries. This is almost as much as the total amount of aid provided globally each…
CHOGM: As the leaders of Commonwealth nations prepare to meet in Perth this week, The Conversation is examining the role of the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) Meeting. In our second…
Significant increases in annual temperatures are having a devastating affect on glaciers in the mountainous regions of south-western…
Climate scientists say the world’s target to stay below a global warming of 2 degrees, made at the United Nations conference…
The Australian Alps cover some 1.64 million hectares, 0.3% of the Australian continent. Included on the National Heritage register, they are of major environmental significance and home to rare and endangered…
Country-by-country estimates of CO2 emissions typically include only those emissions produced from the burning of fossil…
The Pacific Island State of Tuvalu recently reported that it had just days of water supply left for its population of 10,000. The Government has declared a state of emergency and rationed each household…
In a review of past studies researchers have found that 38 of 85 documented plants and animals have shrunk in size due to…
Researchers are using tiny video cameras to study how high-carbon ecosystems respond to elevated temperatures and levels…
By growing and analysing a number of strains of the mustard plant Arabidopsis, researchers have made steps toward developing…
The carbon tax bills passed by the Australian House of Representatives on October 12 were a small vindication of climate science. But we should be concerned about the corpses of science, reason and expertise…
Australian businesses are facing a significant new policy regime with the passing of the Federal Government’s controversial emissions trading legislative package through the House of Representatives. As…
The Gillard government’s carbon pricing legislation passed the House of Representatives by 74 votes to 72, and is expected to pass through the Senate with the support of the Greens next month. Under the…
Tasmanians can expect to see an increase in intense rainfall events, more hot days and warm nights as well as a higher number…
Physicists at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) created something of an online kerfuffle last month when they sought to improve our understanding of cosmic rays and clouds. While their…
A few weeks ago, NASA announced that the area of Arctic ice is now almost as low as it was in 2007, its historic minimum. The extent of ice has reduced to 4.33 million km² compared to the mean (1979 to…
The construction of new buildings, power-plants and roads has driven a substantial increase in China’s carbon dioxide emissions…
The site of a 700,033 year old landslide that followed a volcanic eruption has been discovered on the Canarain island of…
Life is woven out of air by light – Jacob Moleschott Before starting to write this article, I asked my eight-year-old boy what he knew about how plants grow. He answered: “Plants take food from the air…
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