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The global focus on plastic pollution isn’t a distraction from other planetary issues.
Every year the US burns more than 34 million tons of garbage in incinerators. These plants are major pollution sources, and most are clustered in disadvantaged communities.
As climate change threatens to bring more sudden rainstorms, we need to rethink the way we manage water.
If the right changes are made today, Australia’s living standards could be up to 36% higher in 2060. This translates into a 90% increase in average wages (in adjusted, real terms) from today.
Academic research has awakened society to the scale of the climate emergency – now universities must lead the way on the solution.
Young children should be given a bigger role in deciding which charities their schools and families support.
We asked 252 Australian Greens party supporters and 252 One Nation party supporters to do some simple maths. Their answers changed when we told them it was climate change data.
We need to equip Canada’s financial sector to steer us through a global economic transition on our own terms.
Though they were against climate action, the neocons showed that diplomacy can successfully be ignored when facing a huge threat.
Academic experts on how the humble car could evolve to become an unlikely hero in the global fight against climate change.
Ten years ago, politicians such as Tony Abbott would routinely voice disdain for climate science. Now, while the policy debate remains fierce, the battleground has shifted to economics and jobs.
The bold pronouncements of 2019 must mean something through the 2020s and beyond.
The UK has seen drought conditions since 2018, but the flooding of June 2019 shouldn’t come as a surprise.
Many current and former US military leaders call climate change a serious national security threat, but few of them mention the Defense Department’s big carbon footprint.
In the end, climate policy didn’t swing the federal election, and for those on the losing side it can be tempting to play the blame game. But listening and respect are much better ways to move forward.
Federal and state agencies are carrying out a 35-year, multi-billion-dollar plan to restore Florida’s Everglades, but have not factored sea level rise or other climate change impacts into their plans.
Diving deeper into our relationship with the environment.
Can new language change the way the public and politicians perceive the hazards of the Earth’s changing climate?
Could a small and sunny patch of the Earth’s surface power the rest of the world? Here’s what the experts say.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Adjunct professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
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Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Chief Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Australian National University
