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The impacts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will pass, but the impacts of climate change will not.
For the first time, we calculated Australia’s share of planetary environmental boundaries and found we’ve shot past three already.
Can one department adequately tackle climate change, energy, the environment and water? It’s unlikely.
We calculate that this project will add about 41 megatonnes per year to Australia’s national emissions from around 2030.
We need a radical rethink of water resource planning. Strategies should include reusing water and moving water physically to water-scarce areas.
The Nationals have long promoted coal for regional development and politics. But new leader David Littleproud could seize the moment and refocus the regional party.
We cannot allow climate change mitigation and adaptation to become another colonial process of dispossession and disempowerment.
A single seagrass plant in Shark Bay is around 4,500 years old, covers 200 square kilometres of seabed, and thrives in harsh conditions.
The Stockholm Conference in June 1972 launched five decades of international negotiations on everything from biodiversity to climate change.
An invasive Australian tree is exploiting ever-stronger hurricanes.
Domestic political tensions is undermining the country’s ambitions to act as a global role model.
The rise of teals and Greens challenges Labor to take more ambitious climate action, but room to move is constrained by pre-election commitments.
Island states are often dependent on expensive imported fossil fuels for their power. Ocean thermal energy conversion plants could provide constant power – if technical issues can be overcome.
Environmentalists are worried the shift to green energy means damage from more mines. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
The new prime minister seems to have the temperament that would favour a collaborative approach. He could usher in a golden era of stable government, with more generous and compassionate politics.
The number of people who die from climate change each year is roughly the same as the number of people who die from tobacco use.
These crucial ecosystems are being battered by lots of different threats that are combining to make the matter worse.
The concept of the carbon footprint can do more than just make us feel guilty about the climate cost of our everyday lives.
We can use AI to protect nature and human health. But first, we have to expand AI beyond being entirely human-centred.
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 of Natural Sciences, UCL
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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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
