Hurt by sea: how storm surges and sea-level rise make coastal life risky
Nov 15, 2016 04:58 am UTC| Nature
Australia is a huge continent, but a coastal nation. About 80% of Australians live within 50km of the coast, and a sea-level rise of 1.1 metres (a high-end scenario for 2100) would put about A$63 billion (in 2008 dollars)...
Recycling Greenhouse Gases, New Method For Reducing Climate Change Impact
Nov 15, 2016 04:38 am UTC| Nature
Greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide and methane are what causes the heat from the sun to get trapped within the earths atmosphere, thus causing global warming. Now, theres a new scientific method called a super-dry...
World set for hottest year on record: World Meteorological Organization
Nov 14, 2016 12:41 pm UTC| Nature
2016 is set to be the worlds hottest year on record. According to the World Meteorological Organizations preliminary statement on the global climate for 2016, global temperatures for January to September were 0.88C above...
Fossil fuel emissions have stalled: Global Carbon Budget 2016
Nov 14, 2016 08:57 am UTC| Nature
For the third year in a row, global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry have barely grown, while the global economy has continued to grow strongly. This level of decoupling of carbon emissions from...
Get ready for the biggest 'supermoon' in nearly six decades
Nov 13, 2016 16:19 pm UTC| Nature
The biggest supermoon since 1948 will grace the sky on November 14. But what makes it so super? Well, not much more than the fact that itll be a bit bigger than normal, but thats absolutely no reason not to go outside and...
President Trump could kill the Paris Agreement - but climate action will survive
Nov 11, 2016 02:50 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature Politics
November 9 will likely become the day that the Paris Agreement died, but not when the goal of limiting warming to 2℃ slipped out of reach. President Donald Trump can, and likely will, drop out of the Paris climate...
Keeping warming below 1.5℃ is possible - but we can't rely on removing carbon from the atmosphere
Nov 09, 2016 19:31 pm UTC| Science Nature
This week international leaders are meeting in Marrakech to thrash out how to achieve the Paris climate agreement, which came into force on Friday. The Marrakech meeting is the 22nd Congress of Parties (or COP22) to the...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects