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Data analysis suggests local activity will intensify the effects of global warming - so adapting means rethinking national development strategies
Disasters are becoming more frequent and severe as the climate heats up – but Australia is badly under-prepared.
Councils are trying to balance competing priorities in urban development, with limited resources and stretched budgets.
New research suggests 75% of the rainforest has become less resilient to stress since the early 2000s.
The little ice age unleashed famines and revolutions which tested the very bonds of society.
Some investors want publicly traded companies to disclose their full climate impact, including emissions from their supply chains and product use.
Repeat photography has been used to document vegetation change in Africa since the 1950s; in the last 30 years there’s been an explosion of interest.
Their underwater foundations cause different layers of the ocean to mix together.
The latest IPCC Report lacked Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lead authors. This is a severe limitation to understanding and responding to climate change in this country.
Food is a fundamental human right. But governments have left it to charities and food suppliers to step in after disasters. That has to change as climate change throws up greater stresses.
Three of the report’s 270 authors highlight some key findings.
Remote sensing satellites provide the crucial data that helps scientists model disasters so that they can work on predicting avalanche patterns in future.
Plus, a section of a rocket is about to crash on the Moon. What scientists hope to learn from it. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
When bad weather stops moving, the outlook can get dire for the areas in its path.
As history shows, many natural and human factors determine how water will behave during a flood.
Natural disasters are driving up insurance costs. The Australian government’s plan to drive them down won’t help much.
If politics wasn’t an obstacle, we could decarbonise Australia within 13 years and soak up residual emissions with forests.
From melting glaciers to mounting storms, the impacts of climate change are global – but they’re not equally shared.
How does this compare to Australia’s previous floods? And can we expect more frequent floods at this scale under climate change? The answers aren’t straightforward.
Top contributors
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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 of Natural Sciences, UCL
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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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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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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Honorary Climate Research Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Chief Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Sydney
