Breaking the ice: while scientists increasingly understand why Antarctic sea ice is growing, it remains tricky to forecast.
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Five million shorebirds migrate between Australia and the northern hemisphere, threatened by habitat destruction, and rising seas. How can we protect this natural marvel?
Presidential debates around climate change will likely be a referendum on EPA proposals to lower carbon emissions from power plants.
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The American public appear to be of two minds on climate change in politics: supportive of policy action but unconvinced climate change is an urgent priority.
The drop in oil has not sparked the nadir of green energy.
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Since 1993, satellites have been used as well as tidal gauges to monitor sea level. A new calibration of this satellite record now shows that the rise in sea level is gathering pace.
Nations need to focus on the global carbon budget, not on what their neighbours are doing.
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Australia’s emissions target will inevitably be compared with other leading nations. But a fair target should be calculated not on a basis of comparison, but on the world’s shared 2-degree climate goal.
With sea levels rising, a managed retreat from the coastline is necessary.
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In areas vulnerable to sea level rise and storm surges, developments are at increasing risk of inundation and permanent damage over coming years.
The cost of low emissions technology is falling faster than modelling five years ago expected, lowering the cost of reducing carbon emissions.
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Scientists and policy makers are struggling in some countries to gain the support that will lead to meaningful action on climate change. Could art be the answer?
Bjorn Lomborg seems to irritate the hell out of many environmentalists.
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An analysis of the world’s longest-running temperature record suggests that England is many times more likely to experience more record-breaking hot years like 2014 than it was a century ago.
The mountain rainforests of Australia’s Wet Tropics are extremely vulnerable to climate change.
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The health of our environment is not included in national accounts data. And we are all poorer for it.
Recent extreme rains such as those that hit Sydney recently are actually decreasing, but extreme rain in summer is going up.
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Over the past decade, warming air temperatures at Earth’s surface appear to have slowed. But that ignores the vast majority of heat going steadily into the ocean. And, a new paper shows, that makes no difference to the long-term prognosis.