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Seaweed was thought to be a vital tool in the fight to slow climate change. But it turns out seaweed ecosystems may be a natural source of carbon dioxide – and not a sink.
Australia has finally opened the regulatory doors to offshore wind farms. What do we need to do to make the roll out fast and build supply chains?
Simply providing passive information is not enough. Governments must find better ways to deliver important messages about natural hazards.
One in 1,000 years style descriptions apply to probabilities that don’t change. The likelihood of severe floods is increasing.
Resurgence of SUV sabotage highlights the failure of climate policy and an evolving protest strategy.
Many see carbon markets as key to channelling billions of dollars into reducing carbon emissions and protecting forests, but they also put the well-being of communities at risk.
As disasters become more frequent under climate change, building back damaged electricity poles and wires seems maddeningly futile.
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.
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, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
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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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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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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Australian National University
