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Energy experts are getting excited about a proposed solar farm in Kent and what it could mean for a clean energy future.
The environmental responsibility some businesses say they embrace is only a veneer.
Yesterday’s weather helps make sense of today’s, but how will this change as the climate changes?
New Zealand could become the first country to put a price on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.
Cape Town faced down “Day Zero” earlier this year, but that doesn’t mean its water system is resilient. Other cities should also take note.
Ontario and Saskatchewan are vociferously fighting the federal government’s carbon tax efforts. But rather than back down, Ottawa should embrace a simple, fair and transparent “carbon dividend.”
England’s out of the World Cup, but the UK can at least enjoy the weather… can’t it?
Under the terms of the current treaty all commercial mining is forbidden, but rumblings of discontent are stirring beneath the ice.
Conservatives have long tried to attack regulators such as the EPA with “weaponized transparency”. Coupled with the inflation of uncertainty, the intent is to make regulations impossible.
July is the hottest month in much of North America. Experts explain who is most affected by heat waves and ways to cope with them.
Desertification is a problem of global proportions. If action isn’t taken now, it will accelerate and fuel further migration and conflict.
Climate change can seem far removed from our everyday lives, which is why a citizen science program measuring how frogs are dealing with a warming world is so important.
There are precedents for trying to make the industries responsible for climate change foot the bill for adapting to a changed climate.
Australia has seen an unprecedented number of widespread, catastrophic transformations in response to extreme weather events.
How will important habitats recover from the wildfires which been blazing through moorland in northern England?
This new and more accurate estimate means that replacing coal with natural gas doesn’t do as much to reduce climate change as it should.
The dry arid conditions that come with a high CO2 atmospheres are the perfect tinderbox for wildfires.
Crop insurance cushions farmers against natural disasters, but it also can lead them to overuse resources and reduce their incentive to adapt to climate change.
As the climate changes and the population grows, meeting the demand for food will become more difficult as arable land declines. But an international team of scientists has figured out an innovative solution to dramatically bumping up crop yields.
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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, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
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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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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Chief Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Australian National University
