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School food can connect people powerfully to their local lands, resources and economies, and be a tool towards reconciliation with Indigenous communities.
Natural variability in Australian rainfall can produce “mega-droughts” lasting 20 years or more. Add in human-caused climate change, and future droughts may be far worse than imagined.
Not all activists are in the media spotlight, but they’re crucial to promoting action to slow climate change.
Muslims internationally fast during the day in the holy month. But largely-Islamic nations are feeling the effects of climate change, making life harder both during and outside of Ramadan.
Global warming is making the oceans more acidic. Our work aims to design realistic systems to reduce this acidity, and remove carbon from the atmosphere in the process.
The recent rejection of the start of the Anthropocene epoch reminds us of the paramount importance of preserving what remains of our current Holocene.
We must resist the temptation to go for a weak 2035 target and use the public consultation process to think creatively about how the net-zero transition can be both transformational and fair for all.
Atlantic halibut are making a strong comeback in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. But how do we know where the fish move throughout their lives?
The result shows climate change education in schools must become more holistic and empowering, and children should be allowed to shape the future they will inherit.
Bill C-372 does not curtail free speech and, if anything, demonstrates how banning fossil fuel ads does not go nearly far enough.
Conditions deteriorated in 2023 but were stlil relatively good for ecosystems and agriculture. Unfortunately, the alarming decline of threatened species continued.
While barriers still remain, the benefits of electrifying the transport sector are clear for both society and individual firms.
The two alpine regions projected to suffer the greatest loss of snow cover in the world are in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Cattle are major producers of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. But there are methods that can reduce their climate impact – if ranchers have incentive to use them.
Climate change is often seen as solely a technical problem. This is a misguided belief. Understanding how to build a better world begins, and ends, with understanding the societies which inhabit it.
Public concerns for real estate value, and a focus on the self, make flood risk maps unpopular. However, these concerns should not dissuade governments from providing resources we can all trust.
Climate disclosure rules are meant to help investors understand their risks, but they come with costs for companies, as a finance scholar explains.
New research shows how university garden initiatives can help drive transformative change and nurture a new generation of environmental and socially conscious change-makers.
Scientists have been debating the start of the Anthropocene Epoch for 15 years. I was part of those discussions, and I agree with the vote rejecting it.
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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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Distinguished Scholar, NCAR; Affiliate Faculty, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor in Climate Change and Paleoclimatology, Australian National University
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney
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ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century, Australian National University
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Professor and Climate Scientist, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
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Adjunct professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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A/Prof., School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Climate Projections Scientist, CSIRO
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Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Climate Science, University of Reading
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Adjunct Professor of Energy, Murdoch University
