Never mind the future – rich countries have already benefited from climate change, while poor countries have suffered dramatic economic losses.
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The Earth’s past shows the key role of CO₂ on climate for 4.45 billion years, and how human industrial activity has disrupted its cycle at an unprecedented rate over the past 160 years.
The school strikes are a serious moral challenge to climate inaction, but they must overcome certain challenges to maintain momentum.
How can the climate strikers’ demands of system change be met?
What’s the best thing I can do to help the climate? How long is the planet going to last? These questions and more answered by a climate scientist.
The original New Deal caused a “great acceleration” in carbon emissions. How will a Green New Deal forge its own legacy?
Marine heatwaves, like their land counterparts, are growing hotter and longer. Sea species in southeastern Australia, southeast Asia, northwestern Africa, Europe and eastern Canada are most at risk.
The Green New Deal has shifted the debate over what to do about climate change.
By making people confront the scale of the climate challenge, the Green New Deal is a great leap forward.
Record heat in February 2019 caused shock and delight in equal measure. Behind the balmy weather lie challenges for British wildlife.
Reducing emissions doesn’t have to conflict with a growing economy, as these 18 developed nations show.
While countries recognise the urgent need to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by favouring greener energies, the ever-increasing demand for electricity has led to rising coal consumption.
A combination of reasons have led to the drying of the Sahel.
Polar bears ‘invading’ a Russian village have renewed concern over climate change in the Arctic, but human-wildlife conflicts are flaring up everywhere.
The coal, oil and natural gas industries are also connected with human rights violations, public health disasters and environmental devastation.
Melting ice caps, burning forests – the climate disaster future is increasingly the present.
Polls suggest that the majority of Americans think climate change is real, is caused by humans and needs to be addressed. But climate change isn’t a priority when Americans go to vote.
Donald Trump has threatened to use funds allocated for disaster relief to fund his border wall. It’s time to rethink how we frame disasters to stop politicians from using them for political gain.
Ponds are good for more than just decorating the garden – they could be your best tool in fighting climate change.
These technologies could turn into a powerful tool for fighting global warming, and they have the potential to address historical climate injustices.
Top contributors
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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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Distinguished Scholar, NCAR; Affiliate Faculty, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; Deputy Director for the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science; Deputy Director for the Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
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Adjunct professor, UNSW Sydney
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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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Professor and Climate Scientist, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
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Professor of Climate Science, University of Reading
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A/Prof., School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Climate Projections Scientist, CSIRO
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Chair Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Scientia Professor and Deputy Director of the ARC Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS), UNSW Sydney
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Director, ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
