We’ve come a long way since the agreement was formed in 2015.
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November 3, 2016
Bill Hare , Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ; Harald Winkler , University of Cape Town ; Julia P G Jones , Bangor University ; Luke Kemp , Australian National University ; Meraz Mostafa , Independent University, Bangladesh ; Pep Canadell , CSIRO , and Stefan Rahmstorf , Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Experts agree that a new era for climate policy here. But the hard work starts now.
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More wind farms, electric cars and efficient lightbulbs, of course. But also lower taxes.
Watch out, there’s a mixotroph about.
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They ‘engulf living prey, suck out their innards, poison them, harpoon them, make them explode, and steal and reuse body parts’. And we ignore them at our peril.
Do you see the future the same way as Leonardo?
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Leonardo DiCaprio’s new climate documentary is an urgent call for the promised green tech revolution. But it shows too much faith in politicians and corporations to change their ways.
Efforts to combat climate change are making extracting oil from areas like Canada’s tar sands fields more expensive.
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The SEC and others are pressing Exxon to disclose more climate change risks to investors. But new research suggests shareholders are already pricing in those costs on their own.
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Wetland disappearance is destroying organic historical evidence that’s been preserved for thousands of years.
A massive fish die-off occurred in Redondo Beach, California in 2011 caused by oxygen-starved fish.
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Warming waters due to climate change are losing oxygen, threatening the health of fish and ecosystems.
When New South Wales burned in 2013, Tony Abbott was quick to point out that individual events can’t be attributed to climate change. But they can.
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The science of attributing extreme weather events to human-induced climate change has evolved rapidly in recent years. But how we communicate it to the public has not kept pace with this advance.
Sea turtles have been around for 150 million years, but today’s pace of climate change represents an existential challenge.
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Climate change and tourism development in Mexico are altering the country’s shoreline, endangering the habitat of sea turtles. But tourists prefer pristine, natural beaches, too.
Bleached corals are still alive, but they are starving, and often die in the following weeks.
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Months after record breaking coral bleaching, research teams are taking stock of the damage on the Great Barrier Reef.
Australia’s oceans are heating up.
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The new State of the Climate report outlines Australia’s rising temperatures and its regional rainfall declines - and the trends that are locked in for the coming few decades due to greenhouse emissions.
Altered states.
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Lessons from the Soviet Union reveal how we can fret about climate change and celebrate Heathrow’s expansion at the same time.
Indigenous activists confront Queensland politician Peter Wellington in 2015.
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Can Australia achieve fair and open decision-making and a just and sustainable energy transition when big coal players are involved?
Australia’s had a cooler and wetter winter, but the rest of the world has been hot.
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Since April 2015, each month has been the hottest on record and it’s the longest hot streak on record.
Companies have been caught off guard by campaigns to divest from fossil fuels.
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Most businesses construct climate risk solely through the lens of profitability and market opportunity.
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There are ticking time bombs, high up in the mountains.
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The Mekong Delta is gradually being washed away, as less sediment is delivered downstream.
Wine has been adapting since the Little Ice Age.
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Wine lovers can rest assured. Wine will adapt to climate change.
The Montreal Protocol has successfully reduced the use of chemicals that destroy the Earth’s ozone layer.
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Hydrofluorocarbons were created to replace ozone-damaging chemicals – but they turned out to be major contributors to climate change.
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Droughts can be a factor in some armed conflicts, but that’s nothing new.