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In the face of climate change, research shows it might be best not to put all one’s grapes in one basket.
The rapidly changing climate presents many challenges for the sustainability of forest ecosystems. Assisting the migration of trees is a tool to address these challenges.
Nationally, 57% of the population says they’re not prepared for a flood disaster. Surveys and disasters show that those most at risk are least prepared.
Learning new rules requires the suppression of old ones. A better understanding of the brain circuits involved in behavioral adaptation could lead to new ways to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
In the years since the Supreme Court rejected Kivalina’s appeal on May 20, 2013, the community’s search and rescue team has faced increasing climate disasters: ‘We just can’t adapt this fast.’
The game that’s all about jumping comes alive in a film where the story is secondary to celebrating decades of Mario.
There were around 5,000 black Georgians and more black Victorians so black Dickens characters are historically feasible.
The government’s pro-climate rhetoric has met reality – and it doesn’t look good.
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.
A child born now is likely to suffer, on average, three to four times as many climate extreme events in their lifetime as their grandparents did.
Beyond the glamour and fan adulation, African footballers in Europe struggle with adjusting to a new environment.
An expert in Greek tragedy can’t get past a seemingly callous approach to suicide in the National Theatre’s new take on Phaedra.
Shakespeare’s Conrad is now an ambitious ‘story producer’. With an eye over all the ‘Nothing Island’ action, he seeds rumours that bloom into reality TV gold.
ChatGPT threatens to change writing as we know it. But the Mesopotamians, who lived 4,000 years ago in modern-day Iraq, went through this kind of seismic change before us, when they invented writing.
How The Last of Us bucked the trend for failed video game adaptations and instead added depth to a much beloved game.
The ways eastern fence lizards have changed in response to red imported fire ants demonstrate how species can adapt to survive the presence of invasive predators.
How Chaucer’s medieval Wife of Bath continues to make her voice heard
Bringing colour and emotional depth, Baunbach’s adaptation is a good companion to DeLillo’s searing novel.
In its third and concluding season, His Dark Materials grapples with ideas poorly suited to small screen adaptation – but comes out swinging.
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Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film, Loughborough University
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Professorial Research Fellow, Victoria University
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Professor of Biogeography and Spatial Ecology, UMass Amherst
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Assistant Professor, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware
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Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolution, Georgia Institute of Technology
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ICLEI Professor of Practice - Local Government Climate Resilience, La Trobe University
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Principal Research Scientist, University of British Columbia
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Research professor, RMIT University
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Casual Academic, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Miami
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Researcher in Climate and Inequality, University of the Witwatersrand
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, UCL
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Dean's Professor of English and Professor of Theatre, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences