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17 Jun 2021
When animals are hot, they eat less. This potentially fatal phenomenon has been largely overlooked in wild animals, explain researchers from The Australian...
11 Jun 2021
World leaders including Prime Minister Scott Morrison will gather in the UK this weekend for the G7 summit. In a speech on Wednesday ahead of the meeting,...
3 Jun 2021
Have reporters’ cliches got in the way of understanding how Pacific islanders are dealing with climate change?
3 Jun 2021
What role does the Asia-Pacific play in Russian energy strategy? The answer is of consequence to Australian security, and yet Russian energy interests in the...
2 Jun 2021
This note builds on previous work looking at the seasonality issues of high (> 90% share of total electricity energy produced) wind and solar penetration...
1 Jun 2021
Community-scale batteries are already achievable in Australia, will complement existing household batteries and will allow more solar energy to be stored in...
31 May 2021
Opinion surveys across the big emitters reveal the social complexity surrounding climate policy commitments.
26 May 2021
Scientists analysing growth rings of 700-year-old native cypress trees in Western Australia's Wheatbelt say the region suffered a series of megadroughts...
14 May 2021
Advocates for an Australian green hydrogen industry have issued a fresh plea for the country to focus on wind and solar as the fuel source, arguing that labels...
23 Apr 2021
Led by Professor Yun Liu, this ARC-funded project of $780,000 over four years will further develop Liquid Organic Hydrogen Storage.
23 Apr 2021
The world’s ocean currents are changing, particularly along Australia’s eastern seaboard and around Antarctica, creating more powerful eddies that could have...
23 Apr 2021
A new UNSW/ANU study into how the speeds of ocean surface currents are changing over time.