The climate science behind 2026’s super El Niño.
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Over the past 12 months, the federal government has approved multiple fossil fuel projects and cut climate science funding.
In poetry, speculation might help us make sense of what it means to live with an uncertain climate future.
Tags on these deep-diving whales are providing vital data from places research ships struggle to reach.
El Niño summers can mean less rain overall, but more extreme daily rainfall.
What communities and businesses really need is information they can act on, with examples of what’s worked elsewhere and why – and what fails.
New research shows Arctic winter sea ice loss has not stopped – it was temporarily hidden by natural variability.
Most of the heat from global warming ends up in the oceans, not 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.
For 15 consecutive days, temperatures were over 32°C. Today, heatwaves are 3°C or 4°C hotter.
A haiku builds a scene and then breaks it. Climate change has exactly that shape, which means the form itself can carry the science.
New evidence shows a major climate shift ‘within a lifetime’ 13,000 years ago.
A key climate warning sign just hit a record high.
The Global Ocean Observing System informs weather forecasts and climate projections. But funding pressures could create data gaps leaving the world blind.
CSIRO has been the custodian of Australia’s climate modelling through decades of shrinking budgets. Sacking scientists will change this.
In the Antarctic, things may be unfolding faster than climate models predicted – new study.
The Conversation invites academics across the UK and Ireland to write a poem inspired by climate change research.
Climate science is the anti-myth. Researchers have long noted that the human brain struggles with psychologically distant threats.
A new study highlights one of the largest temperature anomalies recorded anywhere, ever.
Days of intense rain and snowmelt overwhelmed old dams and breached roads, forcing evacuations. Nearly half the counties in Michigan – often seen as a climate haven – were under a state of emergency.
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Honorary Associate Professor of Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Host + Producer, The Conversation
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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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Deputy Director, Engagement and Impact, The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Associate in Meteorology, University of Bristol
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ARC DECRA Fellow, UNSW
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century, Monash University
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Associate Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Weather of the 21st Century, Monash University
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Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW
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Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research, University of Technology Sydney
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Chair Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW
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Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds