The risks to Australia of a 3°C warmer world
This report synthesises the observed impacts of climate change on Australia and the risk to the future of the current global trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions. It focuses on the consequences of 3°C
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Caught behind: climate change, extreme heat and the Boxing Day Test
The Melbourne Boxing Day Test may have to be played at night or moved away from Christmas to November or March as the number of extreme heat days rises over coming decades, a new report says. The analysis
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Economic value of protected areas via visitor mental health
<p>We evaluate methods to calculate the economic value of protected areas derived from the improved mental health of visitors. <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/protected-area-mental-health-visitor.pdf"
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Severe weather in a changing climate
This report examines current and future climate change impacts on the Australian climate and weather extremes that produce significant property, personal and economic damage and hardship. The level of
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Australian Government drought response, resilience and preparedness plan
Drought is not a natural disaster and must be accepted as an enduring feature of the Australian landscape which climate change is only going to make worse, the drought coordinator has reported, warning
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New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding
<p>Most estimates of global mean sea-level rise this century fall below 2 m. This quantity is comparable to the positive vertical bias of the principle digital elevation model (DEM) used to assess
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This is what climate change looks like
The word “unprecedented” has been in regular use lately. As predictions about climate change increasingly become observations, are witnessing firsthand the impacts of more frequent and severe weather events.
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Global SO2 emission hotspot database: ranking the world’s worst sources of SO2 pollution
<p>India is the world's largest emitter of sulphur dioxide contributing more than 15% of the global anthropogenic SO2 emissions from the point sources tracked by NASA. The major SO2 emission hotspots in India are Singrauli (Madhya Pradesh) Neyveli and Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Talcher and Jharsuguda (Odisha), Korba (Chhattisgarh) , Kutch (Gujarat), Ramagundam (Telangana) and Chandrapur and Koradi (Maharashtra) shows the Greenpeace study based on NASA data.</p>
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From Townsville to Tuvalu: health and climate change in Australia and the Asia Pacific region
Climate change is “absolutely” already causing deaths, according to a new report on the health impacts of the climate crisis, which also predicts climate-related stunting, malnutrition and lower IQ in
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Vaccination rate for Australian children hits record high: data
Data released by the Australian government for the first quarter this year on Sunday revealed that 94.78 percent of all Australian five-year-olds have been immunized, up from 94.67 percent in the last
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Fossil fuel exports make Australia one of the worst contributors to climate crisis
Australia is on a path to being one of the worst contributors to the climate emergency if the pollution from its fossil fuel exports are factored in Australia could be contributing as much as 17% of global