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NOAA’s 2021 high-tide flooding outlook shows where the risks are highest and growing. Some communities are seeing 20 or more days of flooding a year now.
With climate change making more than 30,000 coastal properties potentially uninsurable within the next 25 years, government-led solutions should be fast-tracked.
Structures are built to withstand a normal range of conditions. But what’s ‘normal’ is changing rapidly.
The world’s nuclear power plants are on the frontline of climate change – and not in a good way.
Many coastal US cities are contending with increasingly frequent and severe tidal flooding as sea levels rise. Some are considering building seawalls, but this strategy is not simple or cheap.
Managed retreat doesn’t always mean leaving. It’s about preserving the essential while redesigning communities to be better for everyone. Here’s what that can look like.
Climate migrants don’t fit neatly into the legal definitions of refugee or migrant, and that can leave them in limbo. The Biden administration is debating how to identify and help them.
Earth observation satellites can measure millimetre changes in sea level and track deforestation in near-real time.
If emissions continue at their current pace, Antarctica will cross a threshold into runaway sea rise when today’s kids are raising families. Pulling CO2 out of the air later won’t stop the ice loss.
A future of heat and strife or humanity’s finest hour – our response to climate change today will define the 21st century.
Sea level is still rising, and when that lunar cycle starts upward again, it will mean double trouble for places like Miami.
In a new study, we found that a third of Antarctica’s ice shelves could collapse at 4°C of global warming.
New Zealand is replacing its once groundbreaking environmental legislation with new laws, one of which focuses on climate change adaptation and will include a fund to enable managed retreat.
As sea levels rise along the Atlantic coast, saltwater is intruding inland, killing trees and turning coastal forests into marshes. Should scientists try to slow the process, or work with it?
This is not an imaginary future dystopia. It’s a scientific projection of Australia under 3°C of global warming – a future we must both strenuously try to avoid, but also prepare for.
Sinking land plus rising seas are putting hundreds of millions of people at risk.
This ancient ecosystem showed that the ice sheet had melted to the ground
in northern Greenland within the past million years.
Putting affected people and communities at the centre of difficult relocation decisions must be a priority under laws that replace the old Resource Management Act.
Cultures worldwide are awash with tales of great floods. What can they tell us about the reality of a wetter world?
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Chair Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Glaciology and Earth Observation, University of Bristol
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Director of the ARC Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, University of Tasmania
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Lead - Pilot Deployments Program (AIMS); Professor (Queensland University of Technology; Adjunct), Australian Institute of Marine Science
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Associate Professor, and Associate Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Monash University
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Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania
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University visitor, University of Southampton
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Adjunct professor, UNSW Sydney
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Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Professor of Glaciology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Assistant Professor, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware
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Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Fellow, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
