It’s time for bipartisan action on climate change

It’s time to begin building a bipartisan Australian response to climate change. The stakes are too high to continue the divisive politics on this fundamental threat to our national wellbeing.

The red herring in the water

New research from the University of Adelaide has shown that climate and economic factors are the main drivers of farmers leaving their properties in the Murray-Darling Basin, not reduced water for irrigation as commonly claimed.

Listening to women on the front line of climate change

The conversation on global warming rarely includes the voices of women in remote villages in Africa, Asia or on Pacific islands – even when they’re on the front line of climate change.

Rethinking coastal infrastructure

How much should we be building along global coasts vulnerable to climate change? A new framework by UNSW scientists delivers some much-needed answers.

Researchers serve up climate change solution

An international team of researchers has discovered a cost-effective way to generate electricity without producing greenhouse gas emissions – while also reducing air pollution.

The risky business of climate change

Businesses around the world are finally waking up to the fact that they must act on climate change or see its impact on their bottom line.

The collapse of 2 Antarctic ice shelves could raise sea levels by an inch

An international team of scientists has shown how much sea levels would rise if Larsen C and George VI, two Antarctic ice shelves at risk of collapse, were to break up.

Climate change threatens to expose deadly soil contaminants

Extreme weather events and global warming could lead to increased human exposure to deadly chemicals, according to Australian researchers. Climate change is likely to lead to more dust storms and the release of contaminated soil into the atmosphere.

A difference of degrees: the looming climate catastrophe

It is becoming increasingly clear that we have greatly underestimated the impacts of climate change and Australia and other nations must rapidly scale up their commitments under the Paris agreement to make a difference while we still can.

Modelling a future powered by sustainable energy

University of Adelaide economists have modelled the transition from a world powered by fossil fuels to one in which sustainable sources supply all our energy needs.

Warming microbes may shrink Southern Ocean carbon sink

The amount of carbon locked away in the depths of the Southern Ocean could fall by almost 20 per cent by 2100 as warming waters lead to increased microbial activity, according to new IMAS research.

Ocean heatwave cuts dolphin numbers

Dolphin survival rates in the iconic population in Shark Bay in Western Australia have dropped by 12 per cent since the 2011 marine heatwave affecting around 1,000km of the state’s coastline.