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Already, climate change plays out in all parts of the world. Every further increment of warming will bring rapidly escalating hazards, including more intense heatwaves and heavier rainfall.
The record-breaking Cyclone Freddy was a wake-up call to prepare for the storms of the future.
Rain falling on deep snow from a series of atmospheric rivers has heightened California’s flood risk. It’s a growing problem as the planet warms.
Growing meat in vats could help us prepare for climate change - and curb the environmental damage done by traditional meat. But only if we can scale it up.
A supercomputer spent six months projecting localised rainfall extremes decades into the future.
National electricity grids are vulnerable to extreme weather events and can leave entire regions without power. Microgrids can deliver better energy security in a warming world.
Atmospheric rivers can melt fragile new sea ice. When these storms arrive in waves, the sea ice doesn’t have a chance to recover.
The majority of flood-related deaths involve vehicles in water. What if flood models could warn of the risks street by street using real-time storm forecasts? Machine learning can make it possible.
Natural disasters cause billions in damage to ports around the world each year.
Sea-level rise isn’t the only climate-related problem for our coasts – extreme waves that cause flooding and erosion are also changing, but exactly how is hard to predict.
African leaders must take radical actions to strengthen the continent’s voice and participation in future events.
Despite technological advances, many US schools are still likely to cancel school in the event of a big snowstorm.
The environmental awards gave cash to climate scientists, conservationists and inventors.
Research shows storms that might have caused minimal damage a few decades ago are becoming stronger and more destructive as the planet warms.
It can be hard to grasp the changes climate change is bringing. To see it in your own life, look at the shifting seasons.
We’ll need clear and well updated information to gauge flood risk as climate change intensifies floods.
The growing threat of flash flooding as a result of more intense rapid rain bursts means the city needs to update its flood defences.
This year’s climate talks have been overshadowed by rising international tensions, energy crises and war. But that doesn’t mean climate action is dead.
COP27 is Australia’s chance to join the global climate effort, but we’ll need to bring more to the table to be taken seriously.
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Australian National University
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Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Climate Science, UMass Lowell
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Director, ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Climate Projections Scientist, CSIRO
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Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
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Principal Research Scientist, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Imperial College London
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Distinguished Scholar, NCAR; Affiliate Faculty, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Chief Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Climate scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Change, University of Waikato
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Researcher, Agricultural Research Council
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Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
