Land clearing is a major cause of climate change

Tackling the interlinked problems of land degradation, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and food security can deliver win-wins for farmers, communities, governments, and ecosystems.

Protecting forests could save the world

Natural forest systems are far better at adapting to change conditions than young, degraded or plantation forests, and protecting wild forests is the best way to combat climate change.

Protecting the future from the past, not the past from the future

Human-induced climate change poses an existential threat to civilization that will render current political priorities irrelevant but our leaders still ignore the need for urgent action.

Youtube offers a diet of nonsense on climate change

Most YouTube videos on climate change prevention and geo-engineering are at odds with the scientific consensus and hijack technical terms to appear credible.

More urban trees will help combat climate change

We all need to plant more trees to beautify our grey cities and cool our suburbs during heatwaves but the right species must be chosen to tolerate the heat and lack of water in urban areas affected by climate change.

Current climate warming is the worst for 2,000 years

Recent warming events have been unmatched in the past 2,000 years, according to international and Australian researchers who analysed climate data in a series of research papers.

Hedging against climate change

Researchers from Macquarie University and Western Sydney University have assessed whether the trees that characterise our urban landscapes will be resilient to our changing climate over the next 50 years.

The fine lines of climate skepticism

The battle lines in the climate debate appear clearly defined, but not all ‘disbelievers’ are the same and more nuance from both sides of the argument would help progress to be made.

New discovery may help cut agricultural methane emissions

An international research collaboration has made an important discovery in the quest to help lower global agricultural methane emissions.

Putting climate change under the microscope

An international group of leading microbiologists have issued a warning that microbes are threatened by climate change in ways which could undermine the complex biosphere on which all life depends.

Half of NSW’s coastal dwellers don’t think sea levels will affect them

50% of surveyed NSW coastal users don’t think a rise in sea levels will affect them, according to a new report into the NSW community’s views on coastal hazards.

Soil carbon holds the key to combating climate change

Curtin University research has provided new insights to support more effective management of soil carbon in a bid to help combat global greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.