At least 115 of Indonesia’s islands will be underwater due to a combination of sea level rise and land subsidence. What do these estimates mean to Indonesia’s future as an archipelagic state?
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Residents are living with the impacts of climate change and know it’s happening. But leaving their homes would strike at the heart of their identity.
Miami is often held up as an example of ‘climate gentrification.’ But a closer look finds a bigger driver of flashy new developments in low-income neighborhoods.
The report synthesises the latest science about Australia’s climate – and paints a worrying picture.
Rising sea levels due to climate change are already having severe impacts on the nation of Tuvalu. It proposes to build a digital replica of itself in the metaverse. Could it be done?
Mayotte is no exception to the adage “small islands, big problems”. A newly born volcano combined with poor land management and accelerating climate change has put its fabled lagoon at risk.
Thanks to Vanuatu, a vote at the next UN General Assembly could open the floodgates to international climate litigation.
That’s the big question at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, and it’s controversial.
Two hurricane and climate scientists explain what’s known – and still unknown – about global warming’s influence on intensity, rainfall and much more.
Seas are rising in the Torres Strait, swamping crops and graveyards. Friday’s decision by a landmark UN committee is a breakthrough for Indigenous rights and climate justice.
If and when the Thwaites Glacier melts, it will result in nearly 0.6 metres of sea level rise, but it holds back another three metres of sea level rise lurking within the Antarctic continent. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Cyclones, floods and other climate change-linked events are threatening Indigenous heritage tens of thousands of years old. Unless we act, they’ll be gone for good.
A field glaciologist explains the changes scientists are now seeing.
New Zealand’s first adaptation plan gives local councils clearer guidelines, but it doesn’t tackle crucial questions about who should pay and how to future-proof major investments.
The Arctic is on average around 3℃ warmer than it was in 1980.
But new research offers some hope if we are able to keep climate change under control.
Antarctica’s ice shelves have helped insulate it from dangerous levels of ice loss. But this is changing.
The findings underscore the urgency of limiting global warming to below 1.5℃, to avert the most catastrophic climate harms.
Telling people they have a flood risk rating of 10 is less powerful than explaining how much they’re likely to pay to deal with flooding over the next five years.
This event was the world’s worst incidence of mangrove tree deaths in recorded history. These photos show the devastating scale of this disaster.
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Chair Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Director of the ARC Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, University of Tasmania
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Earth and paleo-climate scientist, Australian National University
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of Bristol
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Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research at the University of Technology Sydney and Chief Investigator of ARC Centre for Excellence in Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, and Associate Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Monash University
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Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania
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University visitor, University of Southampton
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Assistant Professor, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware
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Professor of Glaciology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Adjunct Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Chief Executive Officer, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research; Professorial Fellow, Fenner School for the Environment and Society, Australian National University
