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Bitcoin may have a large carbon footprint, but cleaner digital currencies aren’t going to prevent an environmental disaster.
According to a new study, the oceans have absorbed more heat from climate change than previously thought. This could mean the Earth will warm even faster in the future than scientists have predicted.
Vast ‘underwater meadows’ would lock up lots of carbon.
Conservative skeptics of climate change may support projects focused on ‘resilience’ – for example, preparing a community for future major weather events.
Convincing people to see and appreciate the threats posed by climate change is one of the great challenges of our day. Insurers may be able to succeed where scientists and educators have failed.
Staying below 1.5°C will require urgent, deep and radical changes in almost every aspect of our lives.
The kind of climate action outlined by the ubiquitous climate checklists won’t be enough.
William Nordhaus showed that the market offers the best chance for preventing global catastrophe form climate change.
Limiting global warming to 1.5C is a tough challenge but still within reach, according to a landmark report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change commissioned after the 2015 Paris summit.
The world needs to be carbon-neutral by mid-century to give ourselves a chance of holding global warming to 1.5C. With around 1% of the global carbon budget, Australia needs to rapidly do its share.
Here are the essential facts from the UN’s special report on climate change.
As climate change alters temperature and precipitation patterns across the US, it is having especially severe impacts on national parks. These changes could happen faster than many plants and animals can adapt.
Without action about 50 African countries and surrounding islands will be affected by rising sea levels.
Comparing the locations of key internet data centers and cable routes with maps of expected sea-level rise suggests it’s time to shore up internet connections in the face of a changing climate.
Climate change will change the dynamic for major food exporters like China and the US.
Two business professors spent five years studying Walmart’s ambition project to bring sustainability to its millions of budget-conscious customers – a plan that began with the birth of a granddaughter.
‘Hothouse Earth’ is not a sure thing – yet. Here’s what you can do about it.
Heatwave deaths this summer make it clear: climate change is a severe public health threat, and those who live alone are at greatest risk.
From Greece, to the UK, to Japan and even Sweden, a slew of places in the Northern Hemisphere are suffering extreme heat. And the chances of extreme heat records tumbling are growing all the time.
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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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Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; Deputy Director for the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science; Deputy Director for the Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
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Adjunct professor, UNSW Sydney
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Chief Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Professor and Climate Scientist, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
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Professor of Climate Science, University of Reading
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A/Prof., School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Climate Projections Scientist, CSIRO
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Chair Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Scientia Professor and Deputy Director of the ARC Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS), UNSW Sydney
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Director, ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
