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Summers are getting longer each year, and it isn’t all fun and games
The cumulative heat in summers is rising, meaning there is less relief from warm temperatures once summer begins.…
Insects in the tropics are already near their heat limits – climate change could push many beyond survival
Many insects, like this malachite butterfly, face critical heat stress under future temperatures. Photo by Kim Holzmann, CC…
Climate change is altering Saharan dust – and Europe is downwind
ragusaliaga / shutterstock Hossein Hashemi, Lund University In recent years, residents of Spain, France and the UK have…
Hundreds of iceberg earthquakes detected at the crumbling end of Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier
Copernicus / ESA, CC BY Thanh-Son Pham, Australian National University Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake…
The climate crisis is fuelling extreme fires across the planet
Hamish Clarke, The University of Melbourne We’ve all seen the alarming images. Smoke belching from the thick forests…
The climate crisis is fuelling extreme fires across the planet
Hamish Clarke, The University of Melbourne We’ve all seen the alarming images. Smoke belching from the thick forests…
New 30-year data shows ocean mass drives sea level rise
A new 30-year analysis of satellite data confirms that increasing ocean mass from melting land ice is the primary driver of global sea level rise.
Climate action can feel slow – but the fastest energy leap in history has begun
Mexico’s Villanueva solar farm is one of the largest in the Americas. Alfredo Estrella/Getty Peter Newman, Curtin University…
Sharks now roam the open ocean. But for 200 million years, they only lived near the sea floor
Michael Worden/Unsplash Joel Gayford, James Cook University When you picture a shark, you probably think of a large,…
High-tech plans to save polar ice will fail, new research finds
Derek Oyen/Unsplash Steven Chown, Monash University Our planet continues to warm because of greenhouse gas emissions from human…