For the first time, scientists have been able to quantify how much climate change contributed to glacial melt, using more than 40 years of data from New Zealand’s retreating glaciers.
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Climate change – Analysis and Comment
It is more likely the Trump administration, and the cosy relationship it has with Murdoch’s Fox news, on top of differences on climate change, that was the last straw for James.
Sea levels could be two metres higher by 2100. How will our relationship to the drowned coast change?
Western solutions to Pacific Island issues often end in failure. These countries must build their autonomy to survive climate change.
In Australia, coastal flooding is expected to be worse along the northern coast in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
The age of a forest can influence how effectively it offsets our emissions.
New research exposes the common tropes of bad faith arguments about climate change.
New research has found the window of opportunity for hazard reduction burns won’t actually get smaller, but instead change seasons.
Villain, victim or hero? It all depends on who’s telling the story. When an audience is aware of how a story is framed, it can focus on the arguments, not the frame.
To fight climate change, we need to take people’s cognitive biases into account.
Carbon emissions are chilling the atmosphere 90km above Antarctica, at the edge of space
The Swedish ‘flight shame’ campaign was a runaway success. We asked those it affected how it influenced their travel behaviour.
Climate-related financial risks have already entered the corporate boardroom. With this case, they’ve now come knocking at the government’s door.
To reverse the current climate and ecological crises, governments must put an end to the damaging forms of technology, innovation, investments and incentives that contribute to it.
Arctic heat waves were once rare and unusual events. But as their intensity and frequency increase with climate change, their fallout could affect the north — and the planet — for decades to come.
A new assessment found substantial warming is much more solidly assured than we thought.
New study shows low levels of future global warming are far less likely than previously thought. Very high warming is also slightly less likely.
Working from home has become the new norm for many during the pandemic. But it’s an opportunity that divides along racial and economic lines – and isn’t as beneficial to the environment as many believe.
Tropical cyclones account for almost four in five natural disasters across Pacific Island nations. But a new forecasting tool now gives up to four months warning for the upcoming cyclone season.
As talk of recovery begins, it’s time to rethink the role of artificial intelligence in society.
Pesticides and high temperatures can disrupt the development of small coral reef fish by targeting their hormones.
Unlike hurricanes, tornadoes and other weather phenomena, heat is a silent killer. The COVID-19 pandemic could make that worse.
To avoid global warming on a catastrophic scale, nations need to reduce emissions and find ways to pull carbon from the air. One promising solution: spreading rock dust on farm fields.
How to ensure your savings, as well as your everyday consumption, are sustainable.
They’re more used to taking visitors to the reefs, but COVID-19 gave tour operators time to help check the condition of the corals. What they found doesn’t bode well.