The fate of this koala could depend on some clever computer modelling.
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Computer modelling can help predict where a species will best survive, especially those affected by climate change.
Nemo is actually a ‘false clownfish’.
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The recent severe bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef has also affected anemones, which provide homes for clownfish.
Moroccan Environment Minister Hakima El Haite at the Noor solar plant, one of the biggest in the world.
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Climate change stands to hit Africa the hardest. That’s why green industrialisation is critical to help keep the continent’s greenhouse gas emissions low.
Has Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth had much lasting impact in the ten years since it was released?
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Ten years have passed since Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth hit the US box office. Has the film been successful in increasing awareness and action on climate change?
Who took the points in the first leaders’ debate of the 2016 campaign?
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The Conversation’s experts respond to the first Turnbull-Shorten debate with an eye across key policy areas and the leaders’ performances.
Ancient air bubbles preserved in Antarctic ice.
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What gaps have the CSIRO cuts left in climate research?
The climate is startlingly complex, as is the immune system.
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Diverse threads of the vast interrogation of nature we call science are coming together in a rich and mutually informative intellectual tapestry.
Airlines have saved energy by changing flight routes and modifying wings for better fuel use.
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Companies could improve their profits 2-10% each year by saving energy, according to a world-first attempt to assess energy performance.
The dairy industry faces a number of welfare and environmental issues.
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The dairy industry faces a number of welfare issues, and is a major contributor to greenhouse gases.
Intense: driven by drier conditions and earlier spring melts, wildfires are getting more potent.
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A review of more than 40 years of wildfire activity in the western U.S. demonstrates the potent effect drier, warming spring seasons, due to climate change, is having on wildfires.
We need a global target for reducing emissions in agriculture to meet the Paris Agreement. Farmers have an opportunity to help meet the 2 degree C target in the Paris Agreement, but known practices will not be enough.
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To meet global climate change targets, agriculture needs an array of innovations and money to get farmers around the world to adopt new practices.
Labor senator Penny Wong was appointed Australia’s first climate change minister.
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Australia had the first government body dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
While some councils wish to take a long-term view of what can reasonably be done in the face of sea-level rises, private property owners just want their homes protected.
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Many properties are at risk from rising sea levels, with owners and councils at odds over the costs of defending these. NSW law reform may lead to more forward-looking climate change adaptation.
Shadow environment minister Mark Butler and environment minister Greg Hunt shake hands before the National Press Club debate.
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Climate change has won and lost elections in the past, and there’s a distinct chill in the air this time around.
CSIRO’s Birdsville station is one of several in Australia that monitors aerosols in our skies.
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A leading NASA scientist has asked CSIRO to stay in its global network that monitors atmospheric dust and pollution. The data are vital to understand the effects on weather and climate.
The Great Barrier Reef’s health has declined in recent years.
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The Great Barrier Reef is in trouble, and the upcoming election is our last chance to lock in plans to save it.
Some parts of Antarctica’s Totten Glacier are more stable than others.
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New mapping shows how Antarctica’s huge Totten Glacier has retreated far inland, raising sea levels by more than a metre. Rising temperatures could trigger it to do so again.
The records keep on falling.
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Another month, another broken temperature record. Scientists are already confident 2016 will be the hottest year ever, a record only set in 2015.
Delegates will meet at the World Conference Centre in Bonn.
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After the breakthrough at last year’s Paris climate talks, the hard work resumes this week as delegates meet in Germany to discuss how to ramp up countries’ climate targets.
Is the water crisis in Flint, Michigan evidence that governments need a new way to make decisions?
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When it comes to many of the big decisions faced by governments and the private sector, behavioral science has more to offer than simple nudges.