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Wildlife can take years or decades to respond to environmental changes made by humans.
Fires here can affect meltwater timing and water quality, worsen erosion that triggers mudslides, and much more, as two scientists explain.
We watched 30 news programmes in five countries to see how they covered an IPCC report.
The rhythmic expansion and contraction of Antarctic sea ice is like a heartbeat. But there’s been a skip in the beat. Deeply concerned scientists have released a diagnosis for policy-makers.
Extreme weather events are complex – and working out exactly how much damage climate change caused is a tricky task.
This year’s Sierra snowpack is looking a lot like 1983’s, and that was a year of flooding and mudslide disasters. A meteorologist explains what’s ahead.
The seaweed invasion of parts of the Ghanaian shoreline is affecting coastal inhabitants.
By analyzing small samples of killer whale fat, scientists can learn about the diets of different killer whale populations. This has implications for our understanding of changing ecosystems.
Canada’s federal Impact Assessment Act seeks to minimize the environmental impacts of major economic projects. Will the Supreme Court uphold the act?
It is easy to feel jaded in a time of catastrophe but there is a compelling moral argument for us to work towards a better world.
The horse race is likely to be disrupted by activists from the Extinction Rebellion offshoot.
An EV industry expert offers five reasons to be optimistic that the government’s ambitious proposed rules to clean up auto emissions can succeed.
Two decades of drought have reduced the river’s flow by one-third compared to historical averages. The Biden administration is considering mandatory cuts to some states’ water allocations.
Cyclone Ilsa has intensified off the Western Australian coast and is now classed as a category-five system. How did this happen?
Fear and Wonder is a new climate podcast, brought to you by The Conversation, and sponsored by the Climate Council. In episode three, we discuss the latest advances in extreme weather attribution.
The water crisis is a women’s crisis. Women need to be equal partners in the process of creating more just and effective water governance systems.
Working with underwater robots, scientists show how deep sea mountains and fast currents between Antarctica and South America play a crucial role in stabilizing the climate.
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.
Climate innovation prizes only make up a small amount of climate research funding but are very high-profile events.
Seafloor landforms reveal that ice sheets can collapse at 600 metres per day.
Building offshore wind farms is complex and expensive. But with plenty of wind coming in from the sea, New Zealand could harness the renewable resource as it aims to decarbonise the energy sector.
Medieval monks recorded hundreds of lunar eclipses. Centuries later, their descriptions are helping scientists unravel the role of volcanoes in historical climate change.
Australia’s environmental movement is not united. The reasons for that go deep.
How might the space industry reduce its ecological footprint and better manage the debris it leaves in its wake?