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Projections for Hawaii’s climate future are raising concerns about fire risk, ecosystems and freshwater supplies for homes and agriculture.
Wildfires on Maui are a crippling blow to the island’s tourism industry, which generates half of its jobs. But New Orleans and Kauai show that comebacks are possible.
There are arguments over the future of red deer on the Scottish island of South Uist but archaeological expertise can help people live alongside wild animals.
In the years since the Supreme Court rejected Kivalina’s appeal on May 20, 2013, the community’s search and rescue team has faced increasing climate disasters: ‘We just can’t adapt this fast.’
Dozens of species have been coaxed back from oblivion, with fenced havens, conserved habitat, islands and feral predator control vital.
At least 115 of Indonesia’s islands will be underwater due to a combination of sea level rise and land subsidence. What do these estimates mean to Indonesia’s future as an archipelagic state?
Island states are often dependent on expensive imported fossil fuels for their power. Ocean thermal energy conversion plants could provide constant power – if technical issues can be overcome.
If all, or even most, offspring of the survivors are shy, we could be facing an introduced pest population that is incredibly difficult to remove.
Did people settle these islands by traveling north from South America, or in the other direction? Reanalyzing data from artifacts discovered decades ago provides a definitive answer.
Big storms with lots of flooding, like hurricanes Dorian and Maria, actually restore the Caribbean’s delicate balance between native and nonnative fish species, new research finds.
A series of new studies sheds light on the population crash and extinction of the giant birds, lemurs and more that roamed the island until around A.D. 700-1000.
Even before the British billionaire invested US$1 billion in making the region ‘climate-smart,’ Jamaica, Barbados and Dominica were pioneering a renewable energy boom in the Caribbean.
Despite its global importance, the rainy ‘Maritime Continent’ around Indonesia is hard to capture using global climate models. But fear not - new research shows how to improve our forecasts.
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Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
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Associate professor, University of Canberra
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Professor of Conservation Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Bioarchaeology, Head of Archaeology and Conservation, Cardiff University
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PhD candidate, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Energy Engineering, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Geography, Newcastle University
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Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Australian National University
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Posdoctoral Researcher in Local Energy Systems, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Atmospheric Science, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor, National University of Ireland Maynooth
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Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, UMass Amherst
