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Environmental factors are important, but we must not ignore history and politics.
Who’d want to take part in the UK energy economy when the government keeps changing the rules?
More than 2,000 academics, including philosophers and ethicists, are urging global leaders at the Paris climate summit to focus on the moral dimensions of climate change.
Many corals can’t make it through the bleaching events caused by warming ocean waters. But some can – and scientists are trying to learn more about the sources of their resilience.
What does the OECD’s decision to limit finance for coal power stations mean for coal producers such as Australia?
South Africa has been experiencing odd weather patterns during the month of November. It can be attributed to three culprits.
Despite their image as cold-loving creatures, Adélie penguins could be winners from climate change.
Australia’s leadership on climate finance in developing nations could be an opportunity to improve climate diplomacy.
Research shows how the the tobacco and fossil fuel industries used different tactics to undermine scientific consensus.
Don’t look to politicians and high finance, it’s pressure from below that will be the driver of change.
Most evidence shows that climate change is caused by humans and immigration is good for the economy. So why do many of us reject these notions anyway?
Until now, the legal system has tolerated corporate deceptions of the public but New York state’s investigation into Exxon on climate could start to rewrite the rules.
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has launched a sweeping attack on Cardinal George Pell for his sceptical stance on climate change.
It should not be assumed that policies intended to deal with the climate will simultaneously stop ocean acidification.
A new study looking at mineral deposits in caves is revealing insights into climate from the distant past.
Global warming is changing the movement of carbon within northern ecosystems to the point where the Arctic could become a net source, rather than sink, of greenhouse gas emissions.
South Africa’s pied crows are moving to areas where the climate suits them more.
2014 saw heatwaves of all kinds and other wild weather. Research can now explain that climate change made these events much more likely.
We have all the tools to achieve economic growth and environmental sustainability - we just have to choose to use them.
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 of Natural Sciences, UCL
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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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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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Honorary Climate Research Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Chief Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Sydney
