Global Warming

It is undoubtedly clear that continuing to burn or export fossil fuels will increase climate change and the risk of extreme weather As New South Wales once again faces heavy rainfall and flooding, the Victorian towns of Euroa and Violet Town will enter stage 2 water restrictions next Wednesday. How is the climate crisis affecting these contrasting …

The floods and droughts devastating Australia are fingerprints of a warming planet Read More »

New research reveals mountain glaciers across the globe will not recover for centuries – even if human intervention cools the planet back to the 1.5°C limit, having exceeded it. The research, led by the University of Bristol in the UK and the University of Innsbruck in Austria, presents the first global simulations of glacier change …

Glaciers will take centuries to recover even if global warming is reversed, scientists warn Read More »

Scientists have found that trees in cities respond to higher temperatures differently than those in forests, potentially masking climate impacts. It’s tricky to predict precisely what the impacts of climate change will be, given the many variables involved. To predict the impacts of a warmer world on plant life, some researchers look at urban “heat …

For plants, urban heat islands don’t mimic global warming Read More »

Climate change is accelerating at its fastest pace since records began, dozens of scientists warned in a report published on Wednesday. For the past year in particular, the planet has never been so hot.  Published in the journal Earth System Science Data, the study found that global warming had increased by 0.26C between 2014 and 2023.  …

Global warming accelerating at ‘unprecedented’ pace, study warns Read More »