The 10km wide Petermann Fjord in northern Greenland. The author’s icebreaker ship is a small dot in the middle. The cliffs on either side are a kilometre high. In the distance is the ‘ice tongue’ of the glacier flowing into the fjord.
Martin Jakobsson
Some of the world’s biggest glaciers flow into fjords in Greenland and we need to know what they’ll bump into on the seabed.
Temperature anomaly on Wednesday August 2 2023. Red areas of Chile and northern Argentina are much hotter than the long-term average for this time of year.
ClimateReanalyzer.org
More than a century of research shows that burning fossil fuels warms the climate – that’s exactly why granting new North Sea oil and gas licenses is a bad idea.
Honolulu, Baltimore, Charleston, S.C. and several other cities harmed by rising seas and extreme weather are suing the oil industry. At stake is who pays for the staggering costs of climate change.
Fridays for Future protest at the COP27 Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
AP Photo/Peter Dejong
Fear and Wonder is a new climate podcast, brought to you by The Conversation and the Climate Council. In this final episode, we discuss how poorer nations are at greater risk to a changing climate.
A coal power station in London, 1952.
John F Oughton / Simon Webster / Alamy
Where there’s fire, there’s smoke – could plumes from the Black Summer of fire have cooled regions of the Pacific and triggered a La Niña? New research suggests it’s possible.
Workers maintaining solar panels in Jakarta, Indonesia in March 2023.
Tatan Syuflana/AP
Fear and Wonder is a new climate podcast, brought to you by The Conversation, and sponsored by the Climate Council. In this episode, we discuss possible solutions to the climate crisis.
Cloud seeding can increase rainfall and reduce hail damage to crops, but its use is limited.
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Cloud seeding – spraying materials into clouds to increase precipitation – has been around for nearly 80 years. But only recently have scientists been able to measure how effective it really is.
Fear and Wonder is a new climate podcast, brought to you by The Conversation, and sponsored by the Climate Council. In this live bonus episode, we discuss where to next on climate change.
Expecting black-and-white answers can make it hard to see the truth.
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Fear and Wonder is a new climate podcast, brought to you by The Conversation, and sponsored by the Climate Council. In episode five, we discuss how climate change is affecting vulnerable species.
Fear and Wonder is a new climate podcast, brought to you by The Conversation, and sponsored by the Climate Council. In episode four, we discuss how climate change is affecting the water cycle.
The remains of a house which was destroyed in the New Years Eve bushfire in Mogo, NSW.
James Gourley/AAP
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.
Solheimajokull, a glacier in Southern Iceland.
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Fear and Wonder is a new climate podcast, brought to you by The Conversation, and sponsored by the Climate Council. In episode two, we discuss the latest advances for measuring climate change.
The aftermath of heavy rainfall in Chennai, India. November 2021.
EPA-EFE/Idrees Mohammed