A heatwave in 2022 redefined scientific expectations of the Antarctic climate. Now the global community must prepare for what a warmer world may bring.
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Did the enormous West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse the last time global temperatures were 1.5°C above preindustrial levels? The answer lay in the DNA of an octopus.
Pine Island Glacier passed a tipping point decades ago, and it could do again in the future.
The world’s coastal deltas are home to hundreds of thousands of people – but they’re now under threat.
A recently signed Australia-Tuvalu citizenship agreement offers people displaced by climate change a chance to ‘move with dignity’. But staying with dignity has to be an option too.
A recent study found one billion people are likely to die prematurely by the end of the century from climate change. Here are seven energy policies that could save their lives.
The world is on track to exceed 2°C warming within the next five years, with dire consequences for polar ice, mountain glaciers and permafrost – and human society.
Getting climate funds to frontline communities may require rich countries and the UN easing control over how the money is spent.
As seas rise, it is clear that traditional coastal defence approaches are unable to keep pace. Nature-based solutions offer considerable potential to protect coasts, people and biodiversity.
In 1997, John Howard chose expansion of Australian fossil fuels over Pacific concerns about climate change. Will Albanese finally mend the rift?
The same instruments used to measure earthquakes pick up vibrations as ocean waves put pressure on the sea floor. Four decades of data tell a story about ocean storms.
Storms are the greatest threat to beach erosion, not sea level rise, research reveals. This is the longest continuous beach monitoring survey in the Southern Hemisphere.
Humanity has lost control of West Antarctic ice-sheet melting.
Oceanographic systems vary over years, decades and centuries.
A therapist shares advice for harnessing your stress over climate change and other environmental harms and putting it to work.
The future of the traditional holiday getaway looks bleak.
Zimbabwe’s climate action plan is on track to check emissions and promote development. Other countries can learn from it.
Rising seas are pushing coastal ecosystems to the limit of endurance. Now international research reveals a “tipping point” will be reached if we allow more than 2 degrees of global warming.
Climate change is going to bring social change. Will it drive ever-faster efforts to stave off the worst – or trigger social upheavals making it harder for us to respond?
Small island developing states are seeking a legal ‘advisory opinion’ from an international tribunal on whether climate change falls under the international law of the sea.
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Chair Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW
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Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Climate Adaptation, University of East Anglia
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Professor of Glaciology and Earth Observation, University of Bristol
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Professor of Polar Geodesy and ARC Laureate Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Assistant Professor, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware
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Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania
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Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney
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Lead - Pilot Deployments Program (AIMS); Professor (Queensland University of Technology; Adjunct), Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Glaciology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Adjunct professor, UNSW
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Associate Professor, and Associate Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Monash University
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University visitor, University of Southampton
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Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research, University of Technology Sydney