Great Barrier Reef coral cover decline shows ‘ecosystem under stress’
Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have experienced the largest annual decline in coral cover in nearly 40…
Australian scientists record accelerating glacier loss on sub-Antarctic Heard Island
Glaciers on the remote Australian territory of Heard Island have lost almost a quarter of their size in…
“They Lied About Clean Energy Again”: Hydrogen Was the Climate Hero—Now Scientists Say It Could Accelerate the Apocalypse
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Pelican Point residents build seawalls despite scepticism of rising sea-level threat
Their houses are just a few metres from the sea, but many locals in the South Australian town…
Marine heatwaves may have driven the world’s oceans to a critical tipping point, scientists warn
ADVERTISEMENT In 2023, the Earth experienced an unprecedented surge in marine heatwaves across its oceans. They set new…
Three Books to Understand Our Ravaged Climate
The summer of 2025 has been a season of climate-driven catastrophes: wildfires in Turkey, flooding in China and…
The Eye-Opening Science of Close Encounters With Polar Bears
It’s a pretty risky business trying to take a blood sample from a polar bear – one of…
Climate shelters: When the heat is on, where can you escape to?
ADVERTISEMENT Where can we go to escape the heat? The concept of a “climate shelter” is becoming more…
Was East Asian air cleanup behind recent global warming showtime?
Global warming has picked up pace since around 2010, leading to the recent string of record warm years.…
Wildfires in Europe burn area the size of Luxembourg as 2025 shapes up to be an ‘extreme’ year
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