Wildfires aren’t always wild. Many of the most expensive and damaging fires happen in suburban areas, and nearly all blazes in these zones are started by humans.
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Journalists are better at covering the climate crisis but there’s still room for improvement.
Scientists find oceanic heat has overtaken atmospheric heat as the main cause of melting.
Ordinary British people proposed bolder climate measures than anything politicians have so far dared to suggest.
I have criticised this government’s climate policy in the past for being big on promise but short on concrete policies. But this financial disclosure policy has some real teeth.
Microfossils offer up an array of information to scientists, like the time periods in which they lived and how environments have changed.
A court victory by an NGO against a South African municipality has laid bare the red tape and misgovernance that often burdens the process of issuing water licenses.
Debating whether climate change or forest management has caused the devastating wildfires in California, Washington and Oregon is a false choice.
Just four of Australia’s 20 biggest super funds still have no emissions reduction targets or commitments.
Absolute temperatures are expected to rise more slowly in the tropics than in higher latitudes and polar regions, but the combination of heat and rising humidity will make life more challenging.
As in humans, environmental changes provoked chimpanzees to develop a diverse range of behaviours.
Maerl beds are the coral reefs of the British Isles. But like their tropical counterparts, they’re threatened by climate change.
Under a rapidly changing climate, it’s not just about keeping the lights on. We not only want energy, but we want to breathe clean air, have enough food and live in a sustainable community.
How destructive storm surge gets depends on both the hurricane and the shape of the land.
It’s comforting to blame California’s wildfires on human stupidity. But this hides a very uncomfortable truth.
A conservation scientist interviewed on the programme says Sir David tells it like it is.
Canada isn’t on track to meet its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions target. We need a clear plan — and soon.
Clouds can act as both blanket and parasol – warming our atmosphere at the same time as cooling it. But which effect will dominate?
Forest that has been disturbed – but not cleared – by logging or fire can be hard to spot from satellites.
How climate change and other human actions have combined to create conditions for explosive wildfires in California, Oregon and Washington state.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Adjunct professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
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Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
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Chief Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Australian National University
