Fixes for small pieces of massive problems show that overarching crises may be less hopeless than they appear.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Climate change
Displaying 4381 - 4400 of 6821 articles
From bird songs to wind patterns, sound is a key but often underappreciated element of natural places. Learning how to listen to nature can alert us to changes in the environment before we see them.
Dystopian fiction is popular, but presenting positive visions of the future in popular culture could help people embrace solutions.
Millions of people worldwide are either indifferent to a carbon tax or opposed. If citizens were motivated by potential carbon dividends, maybe politicians would finally take action on climate change.
Remote sensors allowed us to observe the in-hive activities of honeybees, which could be key to keeping bee colonies worldwide healthy.
Australia is facing an increase in extreme heat, fire danger weather, floods and marine heatwaves, according to the latest biennial snapshot from the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO.
New research addresses two questions about the supposed ‘pause’ in warming.
World elites should pay more attention to young, marginalised or indigenous voices.
Climate change is a serious threat now for poor people in developing countries, but the COP24 conference in Poland offered them little hope of near-term emissions cuts or economic aid.
Over 200 years ago, an Austrian priest teamed up with a schoolteacher to perform the first rendition of ‘Silent Night.’ Little did they know that it would one day be sung in over 300 languages.
Water supply systems weren’t designed to deal with altering weather patterns brought about by climate change. This needs to change.
Carbon emissions from maritime freight are everyone’s problem because of climate change.
An economist breaks down results on two key issues at the COP24 climate change meeting: getting all nations to use the same measuring and reporting rules, and linking policies across borders.
Three years after the Paris Agreement, negotiators have finally agreed (most of) the rules for its implementation. But there is still no way to compel countries to deepen their climate ambitions.
Nations may soon be desperate enough about global warming to consider deliberately engineering the world’s climate.
Their analysis finds that the costs exceed the benefits by over $170 billion – but it includes four major errors in the calculations.
Trump and Bolsonaro may be against any action on climate change, but they are not the norm.
With the dire consequences of climate change looming, archaeologists recognize the importance of communicating their findings on ancient landscapes and the threats that face vulnerable populations.
Labor would create a new Australian Environment Act and establish a federal Environment Protection Agency in its first term.
The country’s carbon emissions should level off again soon.
Top contributors
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
-
Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
-
Adjunct professor, UNSW Sydney
-
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
-
Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
-
Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
-
Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
-
Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
-
Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
-
Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
-
Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
-
Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
-
Chief Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Sydney
-
Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Australian National University
