A man tries to cool down his daughter outside the Lincoln Memorial in June in Washington, D.C. June 2024 was the hottest June on record, according to Europe’s Copernicus climate service.
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Climate change is a difficult subject at the best of times, even more so when discussing it with older relatives. These three scenarios can help you navigate these discussions.
Monster Soup, an 1828 political cartoon by William Heath, shows a woman horrified by a magnified drop of Thames River water.
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Contrary to popular belief, new research shows the abrupt, often gale force wind changes known as “southerly busters” are becoming more frequent, but less severe, as the climate changes.
It has been particularly cold this week, with a record low temperature recorded in Tasmania. Such records are increasingly rare as average temperatures continue to rise.
Fast fashion has serious environmental and social consequences. These tips can help you build a more sustainable wardrobe. Members of Extintion Rebellion perform in front of a Zara outlet in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2021.
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Increasing coral bleaching will be worst for the most biodiverse reefs along the equator, impacting the livelihoods and nutrition of the people who depend on them.
If Australia wants to maintain the world-heritage status of the Great Barrier Reef – indeed, if it wants to preserve the reef at all – we must act now to prevent more coral deaths.
The sun sets over electric pylons along a solar farm near Weifang in eastern China’s Shandong province in March 2024.
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H5N1 is the latest evidence that climate change is altering how viruses spread and evolve. It is essential that global public health officials take these dynamics into account.
By pledging no new fossil fuel licenses, the UK Labour party could aid a new international norm.
A seabed habitat on the ocean floor off the coast of Nova Scotia seen on the third dive of the NOAA Deep Connections 2019 expedition.
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New research has revealed the scale of the carbon-storage potential of the seabeds around Canada, conservation efforts must take this new data into account.
Clive Hamilton, who is Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University, joined us to talk about what Australia can do to not only survive a hotter world.
The sticky combination of heat and high humidity can be more than uncomfortable – it can be deadly.
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Groundwater is the largest source of unfrozen freshwater on the planet. Even though it’s underground, climate change is heating this reservoir up.
A man and a boy walk across the almost-dried river bed of the River Yamuna following hot weather in New Delhi, India, in May 2022. Northern India is again in the grips of an unprecedented heatwave.
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A record-breaking heatwave hit Delhi this week, hot on the heels of heat in Asia and Africa. Australians take note, we are not safe here. We need to prepare for heat to hit us just as hard.
A passenger airliner flies past clouds and a rainbow in the sky over Beijing, in May 2024.
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The governance of solar radiation modification technologies is hampered by a lack of consensus on whether and how to explore such technologies. Only honest dialogue can hope to break this impasse.
Pumpjacks draw out oil and gas from well heads as wildfire smoke hangs in the air near Calgary in May 2024.
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A major report in the U.S. finds damning evidence of decades of deceit by American oil and gas companies. The situation in Canada is likely not much different.
Garibaldi Lake outside Vancouver, B.C.
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Water is very heavy – and it can move. Until now, changes to water on land have actually offset much of the rising sea level from ice melt. How? Gravity