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Climate change – Analysis and Comment
How diseases will change as Earth overheats.
Since the major demonstrations organised in Madrid (COP25) and Glasgow (COP26), young people seem to have less and less of a voice at the UN’s major climate conferences. Why?
Global warming poses great challenges to Canada’s wine industry. But in these challenges lie equally great opportunities to build a better, and more sustainable, wine industry.
Aid would be much better spent if donors listened to the people they are trying to help.
We developed My Climate View to help Australian farmers and producers better understand the risks and opportunities they face over the next 50 years. Road-testing with farmers was vital.
Baby corals may hold promise for building coral reef resilience in Seychelles and beyond.
New research challenges the conventional wisdom that those who enjoy some form of employment and strong support networks are more inclined to attach themselves to a set geography.
Climate change poses clear risks to human rights around the world. It is essential that people hold governments and decision-makers to account.
Mosquito populations can respond quickly to changing climate, which means the location of areas at risk of malaria might change.
Tens of millions of people have been exposed to conditions that threaten their health.
Why build pyramids in the desert? A centuries-old puzzle may be answered by the slow wandering of the Nile.
The culture wars have been around forever, but keep taking new forms, and US variants threaten to spill over to Australia – as seen in the recent (overturned) ban on same-sex parenting books in Sydney.
Without a green energy transition Australia won’t meet its emissions reductions promises. But despite punching above its weight for years, the electricity sector isn’t transforming quickly enough.
‘Flying rivers’ of moist air from the Amazon combined with a warming planet have the potential to produce more rain, say scientists.
Even small increases in temperature can stop our brains from functioning optimally.
Plus, a better way to decarbonise the power sector.
Iron-rich dust feeds phytoplankton. They are a key form of life in the Southern Ocean, which acts as a climate shock absorber.
Internal carbon prices – also known as shadow carbon pricing – could prod companies into taking decisions that are good for both business and the planet.
Interventions to prevent crime against wildlife can be effective, but significant gaps in our knowledge remain.
On a regional scale, global warming exceeded the Paris agreement’s upper climate target in the northern hemisphere.
Ghana is losing forests because of cocoa farming, firewood harvesting, mining and logging.
States could be in for another summer of unhealthy wildfire smoke as ‘zombie fires’ resurface in western Canada and more blazes break out in the dry conditions.
Pope Francis and other Catholic leaders committed to raising awareness of environmental issues draw on centuries of tradition.
Water is everywhere, but freshwater supplies are limited on many Caribbean islands. Rising demand and climate change are worsening water shortages for the people who live here.