Environment

A rare natural phenomenon brings severe drought to Australia. Climate change is making it more common

March 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

Nicky Wright, Australian National University; Bethany Ellis, Australian National University, and Nerilie Abram, Australian National University Weather-wise, 2019 was a crazy [...]

State of the Climate report – the world is already 1.1°C warmer

March 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

In a report by by the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) it shows 2019 was the second warmest year in the instrumental record. 2015-2019 are the five warmest [...]

Climate Change: Current rate of climate change means sandy beaches will disappear – so will your holidays

March 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

You next beach holiday is under threat from Climate change. Simply put as sea levels rise, beaches disappear. Researchers have modelled how changes over the last few decades [...]

Greta Thunberg – Time’s 2019 Person of the Year

December 12, 2019 // 0 Comments

Young Swedish environmentalist sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg has been named Time’s Person of the Year 2019. She is the youngest Person of the Year to be printed on [...]

Greenland has lost 3.8 trillion tonnes of ice since 1992

December 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

Greenland has lost 3.8 trillion tonnes of ice since 1992 – enough to push global sea levels up by 10.6 millimetres, according to international research. The study shows [...]

Now Australian cities are choking on smoke, will we finally talk about climate change?

December 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

Blanche Verlie, University of Sydney I moved to Sydney less than five weeks ago and the city has been shrouded in smoke haze on and off since then. I joke this is my [...]

Smarter than the average crow? – Crows plan three steps ahead like (some) humans

February 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

Have you ever watched the Alfred Hitchcock film the Birds and wondered what would it be really like if birds acted together – as a collective, planned and took over the [...]

Climate change is poised to deliver more Black Saturdays in decades to come

February 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

Scott Hamilton, University of Melbourne Ten years ago, on February 7, 2009, the Black Saturday bushfires killed 173 people. More than 2,000 houses were destroyed in Victoria, [...]

The Past Four Years – The Warmest On Record

February 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

Key Points: The warmest 20 years on record have been in the past 22 years Extreme and high impact weather affected many countries and millions of people Many of the extreme [...]

A million dead fish can’t be wrong we need more water returned to the rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin

February 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

Rod Campbell, Research Director, The Australia Institute says there are Three things that are clear from the Royal Commission’s report into the Murray-Darling Basin The [...]