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Climate change – Analysis and Comment
The broad principle of companies, government bodies and universities divesting from oil, gas and coal companies is sound. But its application needs more sophistication.
A party can have the most brilliantly informed and farsighted policies. But if the protagonists cannot communicate these effectively to the electorate, they will be overlooked.
The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising faster than at any point in the past 55 million years.
Disruptive innovation is needed if the world is to meet its clean water targets.
Eastern Australia’s massive storms will likely become rarer in a warmer world, but probably more intense.
When all the evidence points in one direction, people can quite happily go the other. Whether it’s Trump, Brexit or climate change.
Autumn 2016 was Australia’s hottest, beating the previous record set in 2005.
Computer modelling can help predict where a species will best survive, especially those affected by climate change.
The recent severe bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef has also affected anemones, which provide homes for clownfish.
Climate change stands to hit Africa the hardest. That’s why green industrialisation is critical to help keep the continent’s greenhouse gas emissions low.
Ten years have passed since Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth hit the US box office. Has the film been successful in increasing awareness and action on climate change?
The Conversation’s experts respond to the first Turnbull-Shorten debate with an eye across key policy areas and the leaders’ performances.
What gaps have the CSIRO cuts left in climate research?
Diverse threads of the vast interrogation of nature we call science are coming together in a rich and mutually informative intellectual tapestry.
Companies could improve their profits 2-10% each year by saving energy, according to a world-first attempt to assess energy performance.
The dairy industry faces a number of welfare issues, and is a major contributor to greenhouse gases.
A review of more than 40 years of wildfire activity in the western U.S. demonstrates the potent effect drier, warming spring seasons, due to climate change, is having on wildfires.
To meet global climate change targets, agriculture needs an array of innovations and money to get farmers around the world to adopt new practices.
Australia had the first government body dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Many properties are at risk from rising sea levels, with owners and councils at odds over the costs of defending these. NSW law reform may lead to more forward-looking climate change adaptation.
Climate change has won and lost elections in the past, and there’s a distinct chill in the air this time around.
A leading NASA scientist has asked CSIRO to stay in its global network that monitors atmospheric dust and pollution. The data are vital to understand the effects on weather and climate.
The Great Barrier Reef is in trouble, and the upcoming election is our last chance to lock in plans to save it.
New mapping shows how Antarctica’s huge Totten Glacier has retreated far inland, raising sea levels by more than a metre. Rising temperatures could trigger it to do so again.