People inspect the damage following a tsunami at a village in Sumur, Indonesia, on Dec. 24, 2018.
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Massive landslides can trigger destructive and deadly tsunamis, and climate change could make them worse.
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Fires that burn the forest burn crops and pastures alike. But farmers in the eastern Amazon are left with few good options.
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A federal government plan to increase soil carbon stores is a folly that misunderstands the technology.
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The president of Kiribati plans to raise its low-lying islands to fight, not flee, sea level rise. Here’s why it’s an expression of human dignity.
Restoring the mosque of Djenné in Mali.
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The next ten years will be a critical period in which research agendas can be developed.
REDD+ goals suffer at the hands of other development aims.
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Conservation and development scheme REDD+ has manifested as a series of models, which increases its perceived success and enables it to continue despite not delivering on its wide-reaching promises.
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Despite this year’s coronavirus lockdowns, more CO2 has accumulated in the atmosphere than during the same period in 2017 or 2018.
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Hydrogen is hailed as a new clean fuel, but little attention has been paid to the potential environmental challenges presented by the energy shift.
Climate-driven ocean warming threatens healthy coral reefs, like this one in Hawaii.
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Hundreds of organizations are working around the world to restore damaged coral reefs. New research shows that rapid ocean warming threatens these efforts.
Bondi Beach in Sydney is locked down, April 2020.
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My research shows we’ll need transformative change not just temporary lockdowns for COVID-19 to make much difference to the climate.
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We discovered wind farms in Spain that had carved up peat bogs, causing them to release carbon to the atmosphere.
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Try a few star jumps every hour, it’ll make a massive difference to your warmth.
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For the first time, scientists have been able to quantify how much climate change contributed to glacial melt, using more than 40 years of data from New Zealand’s retreating glaciers.
In happier times: Lachlan, Rupert and James Murdoch at Rupert’s marriage to Jerry Hall in 2016.
It is more likely the Trump administration, and the cosy relationship it has with Murdoch’s Fox news, on top of differences on climate change, that was the last straw for James.
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Sea levels could be two metres higher by 2100. How will our relationship to the drowned coast change?
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Western solutions to Pacific Island issues often end in failure. These countries must build their autonomy to survive climate change.
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In Australia, coastal flooding is expected to be worse along the northern coast in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
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The age of a forest can influence how effectively it offsets our emissions.
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New research exposes the common tropes of bad faith arguments about climate change.
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New research has found the window of opportunity for hazard reduction burns won’t actually get smaller, but instead change seasons.