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State of the Climate 2015: global warming and El Niño sent records tumbling
2015 was the world's hottest year on record. The US State of the Climate report has rounded up the litany of temperature and other records that were broken all over the globe.
Novel use of satellite data is helping Africa cope with natural disasters
Satellite rainfall data can be used to predict harsh climate events – and to identify food-insecure populations before disaster strikes.
Australia simmers through hottest autumn on record
Autumn 2016 was Australia's hottest, beating the previous record set in 2005.
El Niño is over, but has left its mark across the world
From floods to drought, fire to famine, the 2015-16 El Nino has had a global impact.
El Niño is over, but has left its mark across the world
From floods to drought, fire to famine, the 2015-16 El Nino has had a global impact.
2016 is likely to be the world’s hottest year: here’s why
Another month, another broken temperature record. Scientists are already confident 2016 will be the hottest year ever, a record only set in 2015.
Antarctic ice shows Australia’s drought and flood risk is worse than thought
A new millennium-long record reveals that Australia has suffered longer droughts and wet periods than those recorded in the past century's weather observations.
Environmental score card shows Australia is once again in decline
After some unusually wet years, our landscape and ecosystems have once again returned to poorer conditions that were last experienced during the Millennium Drought.
When is it going to snow? Getting a fix on what can make a good season
Australia's snow season is notoriously fickle - so what determines whether we'll get a good fall?
Was Tasmania’s summer of fires and floods a glimpse of its climate future?
This summer has seen Tasmania suffer through drought, bushfires, floods and the worst marine heatwave on record. Is this what life under a climate-changed future will be like?
Coral Bleaching Taskforce: more than 1,000 km of the Great Barrier Reef has bleached
Bleaching has hit a huge swathe of the Great Barrier Reef, with many corals in the reef's remote northern reaches now expected to die as a result of warm waters linked to this summer's El Niño.
This summer’s sea temperatures were the hottest on record for Australia: here’s why
The summer of 2015-2016 was the hottest on record for Australia's oceans.
Great Barrier Reef bleaching event: what happens next?
Authorities have moved the Great Barrier Reef onto its highest alert level in response to widespread coral bleaching. Months of monitoring will now be needed to assess the ongoing damage.
Coral bleaching comes to the Great Barrier Reef as record-breaking global temperatures continue
Right on cue, coral bleaching has struck the Great Barrier Reef, as the world's third mass bleaching event continues.
February’s global temperature spike is a wake-up call
February 2016 was the hottest month by the biggest margin ever. Does that mean global warming has gone into hyperdrive?
Droughts and flooding rains: it takes three oceans to explain Australia’s wild 21st-century weather
Since 1999, Australia has swung between drought and deluge with surprising speed, because El Niño has fallen into sync with similar patterns in the Indian and Southern Oceans.
We traced the human fingerprint on record-breaking temperatures back to the 1930s
Record-breaking years have been almost impossible without human-caused climate change.
Sydney, so hot right now: what’s behind the city’s record run of warm weather?
Sydney is in the process of smashing the record for the longest run of days above 26℃. Weather, El Nino and climate change are all playing their part.
It’s not ‘doom and gloom’ to point out what’s really happening to coral reefs
Marine scientists have been accused of being biased towards 'doom and gloom'. But it's not bias if the outlook for coral reefs really is gloomy.
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