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Considering South Africa’s climatic advantage, the fraction of electricity generated from renewable energy technologies is low.
Plant breeding, informed by genetic analysis, could be critical to the future of one of the world’s oldest crops.
Fires today are hotter and more destructive, thanks in part to a warming climate.
Our research shows that although climate change is a key factor in starting conflict in eastern Africa, it’s not always the most important one.
Counties have better knowledge of the impact of food insecurity on households but lack the will and capacity to tackle it.
Fire weather reason – when wildfires are most likely to strike – has expanded almost everywhere.
Stemming the water crisis in the western US will require cities and rural areas to work together to make water use on farms – the largest source of demand – more efficient.
New research has found suicides increase during drought, and climate change will see more drought in Australia.
The ongoing humanitarian crisis raises serious questions about future food and water security in the Horn of Africa.
Climate change has forced Australia’s grape growers to band together to secure water, as well as plant new varieties and cut water use.
About 7.7 million Somalis need emergency aid right now.
Already critically endangered, the southern bent-wing bat is still declining in a drying climate. If we don’t step in, it will likely be extinct within three generations of bat.
We need a radical rethink of water resource planning. Strategies should include reusing water and moving water physically to water-scarce areas.
La Niña is only part of the problem. The long-term driver of increasing drought – even in areas getting more rainfall overall – is the rapidly warming climate.
More carbon dioxide in the air doesn’t necessarily mean more growth for trees, and the increasing risk of wildfires and drought has major consequences, as an interactive map shows.
Whoever wins the presidential election will inherit a host of challenges that have persistently tormented previous Somali leaders.
The Colorado River provides water and electricity to 40 million people in the western US, but falling water levels threaten both of those resources.
If the world overshoots its climate targets, drought could cause dryland areas to expand by a quarter and encompass half the Earth’s land area, threatening lives and livelihoods.
Fire season is getting longer, and the result is transforming iconic desert ecosystems. The start to 2022 has been so dire, one governor called for a federal disaster declaration.
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Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Head of Operational Climate Services, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Regents Professor Emeritus and Morris K. Udall Professor of Law & Public Policy Emeritus, University of Arizona
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Climate Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
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Climate Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Climate scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Chief Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO, CSIRO
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Senior Research Associate, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Climatologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Visiting Adjunct Professor, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
