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People tend to pay attention when things get personal, so you need to know how climate change is damaging things in your life.
The Great Lakes contain reservoirs of legacy contaminants, mostly in their sediments, that are vulnerable to resuspension.
The actions of today’s leaders on climate change will determine how much more vocal youth will become in 2020.
2019 was a big year for dire warnings about the state of the planet, but crises can spur solutions.
Activists wanted nations to make bigger climate commitments at the Madrid COP-25 meeting, but the meeting’s real goal was agreeing on rules for pricing carbon pollution.
New research shows even brief hot spells can damage seed quality.
A survey of San ostrich eggshell beads - a common find at archaeological sites - paints a bigger picture of hunter-gatherers, herders and shifting cultural tradition.
There is nothing funny about the prospect of environmental collapse. But comedy can highlight the errors that led us to the crisis, and encourage us to act in the face of hopelessness.
Grattan and Martin on the year that was, in politics and economics
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Michelle Grattan sits down with The Conversation's economic editor Peter Martin for a chat about the year that was, and to answer readers' questions.
For crop farmers, the risk of low profit years has doubled.
Under the Paris Agreement, countries have registered plans to meet emissions reductions, but the current pledges, if fully realised, would take us to 2°C by the 2050s.
Global heating could reduce mountain glacier snow and ice by up to 80% by 2100, threatening major drinking water supplies.
New research is uncovering that whales have their own distinct microbiomes that may play important roles in animal health. But how do scientists study whale microbiomes?
Blue carbon stored in coastal ecosystems is important, but it’s a poor fig leaf for Australia’s abysmal record on emissions.
COP25 has come and gone, another missed opportunity to use women’s knowledge to mitigate climate change.
Real Christmas trees may be in short supply this year thanks to the 2008 economic downturn, climate change and insect infestations.
The science says that more or better climate education won’t convince sceptics. Here’s what we can do instead.
What is the climate emergency, and whose climate crisis is it anyway?
The European Commission will propose a wide-ranging ‘climate law’ in the next few months.
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