There are indications that climate change in Malawi will make the country poorer and its people more static.
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There is belief among some that climate change drives human displacement, but research in Malawi suggests otherwise.
A Permo-Triassic boundary site near Bethulie in South Africa’s Free State province.
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How did survivors of the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction adapt to their new, harsh environment? And why is that knowledge so important for modern species?
A singular focus on divestment from oil and gas companies to counter climate change could be detrimental.
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The broad principle of companies, government bodies and universities divesting from oil, gas and coal companies is sound. But its application needs more sophistication.
Both Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten are complex, enigmatic figures.
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A party can have the most brilliantly informed and farsighted policies. But if the protagonists cannot communicate these effectively to the electorate, they will be overlooked.
Fire significantly added to our ability to change the world.
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The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising faster than at any point in the past 55 million years.
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Disruptive innovation is needed if the world is to meet its clean water targets.
Coastal erosion caused by massive waves during the weekend’s East Coast Low.
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Eastern Australia’s massive storms will likely become rarer in a warmer world, but probably more intense.
WE GOT THIS.
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When all the evidence points in one direction, people can quite happily go the other. Whether it’s Trump, Brexit or climate change.
Summer stayed into autumn in many parts of Australia.
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Autumn 2016 was Australia’s hottest, beating the previous record set in 2005.
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.
The Ellsworth Mountains Project
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.