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Adelaide goes dark after wild storms caused the entire state’s power to fail. AAP Image/David Mariuz

What caused South Australia’s state-wide blackout?

South Australia is recovering from a state-wide blackout, and fingers are pointing at the state’s renewable energy industry and climate change.
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IPCC chair Hoesung Lee: we can meet 2°C global warming target if we act fast

Lee: ‘Business will be far from usual in a world of four, five or six degrees of warming.’
Projects to adapt to climate change have come a long way since the 1960s when piles of cars were used to fight beach erosion. Griffith University

Australian investors want bankable projects that help us adapt to climate change

To pay for the increasing costs of climate change Australia should have green bonds that finance projects that help us adapt. However research shows there are barriers to financing these bonds.
The crew of scientists prepare to put the drill stem into the Greenland ice sheet to probe water flows about a half of a mile below. Joel Harper

Scientist at work: Tracking melt water under the Greenland ice sheet

A glaciologist develops a lightweight method for probing the depths of Greenland’s ice sheet to answer a crucial question: How fast is it melting?
Malcolm Turnbull will recount the story of Aliir Aliir, who grew up in a refugee camp in Kenya after his family fled the civil war in Sudan and this year made his debut for the Sydney Swans. Tracey Nearmy/AAP

Turnbull to UN: climate change threatens ‘the future of generations’

Malcolm Turnbull will tell the United Nations General Assembly climate change threatens ‘the future of generations around the globe’.
Lightning moves pretty quickly; would you call it instantaneous? Steven Vanderburg, NOAA

What exactly does ‘instantaneous’ mean?

An instant likely feels different to a person, or a redwood, or a gnat. What’s infinitely small for one might be a whole lifetime for another – and that scale influences the choices we make.

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