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El Niño can trigger intense and widespread periods of extreme ocean warming known as marine heat waves. They can devastate marine life.
Scientists analyzed 100,000 baseball games, from the days of Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays to Aaron Judge. Here’s what they learned about the climate’s growing role.
Extreme heat kills more Australians than any other natural hazard. Here’s why it’s important to keep an eye on older family and friends this summer.
Changing habitat ranges, competition for food and water, and biological effects of climate change all pose threats to wildlife.
Marginalised or minority groups seem to suffer the most from heat-related deaths and disease.
Air conditioners are rare in some European countries, but the climate crisis could change that.
That’s the big question at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, and it’s controversial.
Urban plantings are part of the solution to living in warmer cities, but most tree and shrub species in the world’s cities will struggle too. The impacts on liveability could be huge.
Climate change will increase the frequency of both floods and droughts in Pakistan. To address these challenges, enhancing infrastructure, building dams and educating the public are necessary.
The flooding in Pakistan is the latest in a sequence of exceptional disasters in the Northern Hemisphere. How much is climate change to blame?
The worst effects are during high nighttime temperatures, something happening more often with climate change. Wildfire smoke adds to the risk.
The tropics are projected to face almost daily dangerous heat by 2100. And “extremely dangerous” heat that’s almost unheard of today will occur more often in several regions.
Flash flooding often follows periods of drought.
A small number of people experience a debilitating level of eco-anxiety that limits their ability to live happy and healthy lives.
Global heating may be making the weather systems behind heatwaves more common in Europe.
Hotter, drier summers risk making widlfires more like those of southern Europe.
The UK recorded blistering hot temperatures as the US and Europe also experienced sweltering heat waves.
Summer heat may be far from people’s minds here in Australia. But Europe’s ordeal is yet another sign changes in Earth’s climate have already reached dangerous levels.
Summer sports camps and pre-season training often have kids running hard in high heat and humidity. The combination can be deadly.
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate in Climate Change and Health, University of Reading
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Professor of Heat & Health; Director of Heat & Health Research Incubator; Director of Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of Arizona
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Researcher, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Wildfire Research, Swansea University
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NERC Independent Research Fellow in Climate Science, University of East Anglia
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Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Assistant Professor, Aga Khan University
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Professor of Global Health and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington
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Professor, Aga Khan University Hospital
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Associate, Institute for Climate Change & Adaptation, University of Nairobi
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Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Purple House Medical Advisor. Honorary ANU., Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer of Urban Mobility, Public Safety & Disaster Risk, UNSW Sydney
