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25 Mar 2020
Australia has the technology to move from fossil fuels to renewable energy, but the social dynamics remain challenging. The Stop Adani protest convoy during...
12 Mar 2020
Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) are studying how natural disasters affect pregnant women, to help better understand this vulnerable...
11 Mar 2020
The future of solar technology is almost reality, with researchers at ANU setting a new record for the conversion of sunlight into energy.
10 Mar 2020
Weather-wise, 2019 was a crazy way to end a decade. Fires spread through much of southeast Australia, fuelled by dry vegetation from the ongoing drought and...
9 Mar 2020
New international research has found a worrying change in the Indian Ocean’s surface temperatures that puts southeast Australia on course for increasingly hot...
24 Feb 2020
Experts are calling for an independent national expert committee on air pollution and health protection to be urgently established following the catastrophic...
13 Feb 2020
One of the big drivers of drought in Australia, the Indian Ocean Dipole, is trending towards a more drought-causing positive state due to climate change,...
5 Feb 2020
Global trade talks are silent on three of the world's most pressing issues -- malnutrition, obesity and climate change - researchers from The Australian...
31 Jan 2020
One of the most confronting impacts of climate change is the risk of more deaths from hot weather. Heat stress can exacerbate existing health conditions...
30 Jan 2020
Plants safely store toxic mercury. Bushfires and climate change bring it back into our environment »
Climate change and bushfire may exacerbate recent mercury pollution and increase exposure to the poisonous neurotoxin, according to our study published in the...
23 Dec 2019
Whilst we've known for many years that intense rainfall and flooding can can lead to disease outbreaks, until recently we weren't aware that there...
23 Dec 2019
Unfortunately, discussions around climate change in Australia have become polarised and this is challenging our ability to develop and implement solutions. ...