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Blue carbon involves more than just counting carbon. It requires governance, finance, policy, and practice. Ultimately, success hinges on people and their skills.
In extreme heat, the tour can provide extra shade, hydration during racing and even alter or cancel a stage. But is this enough?
There’s a growing trend to pave over front gardens.
Four experts explain how we can protect the rare – and increasingly at risk – spidery wattle.
As climate-related hazards become more frequent and severe, protecting our health will require moving beyond warnings toward prevention.
Most of the heat from global warming ends up in the oceans, not the atmosphere.
New technologies could make the switch to solar more affordable for renters and apartment dwellers.
Ancient carbon is leaking from two lakes in the Congo Basin, revealing a previously unknown link between tropical peatlands and the atmosphere.
London probably won’t disappear beneath the waves. But we still need to understand the most dangerous outcomes that remain possible – and avoidable.
Increasing flash flooding is exhausting communities as they’re hit again and again.
Climate leadership does not require personal perfection. In fact, acknowledging contradiction can strengthen credibility.
Human-made carbon dioxide emissions threaten the very survival of our larger pollinators.
As our climate warms, beavers are appearing sooner and moving northward. This could have implications for the environment and human infrastructure.
Some of South America’s tropical forests effectively stopped absorbing carbon during the 2015-2016 El Niño.
Bumblebees are being affected by heat and other factors this summer.
Three climate-related factors have loaded the dice for a drier and warmer winter this year.
Too often, Australian authorities have relied on ad hoc preparations for the droughts and bushfires made more likely by El Niño.
Permafrost holds an extraordinary molecular record of ancient life — and we are only now learning to read it, just as warming begins to erase it.
New evidence suggests a massive centuries-long drought may be part of the answer.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Australian National University
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Adjunct professor, UNSW
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Former 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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Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
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Deputy Director, Engagement and Impact, The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century, Australian National University
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Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne