Arbor Day: Why planting trees isn’t enough

For 151 years, Americans have marked Arbor Day on the last Friday in April by planting trees. Now business leaders, politicians, YouTubers and celebrities are calling...

The IPCC’s calls for emissions cuts have gone unheeded for too long – should it change the way it reports on climate change?

Emissions from human activities are substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases CO₂, methane, CFCs and nitrous oxide. These increases will enhance the greenhouse...

Australia’s adoption of electric vehicles has been maddeningly slow, but we’re well placed to catch up fast

Australia has long had a love affair with the internal combustion engine. Its first petrol-powered car was developed in 1901. (Admittedly, the engine was imported from...

Most people already think climate change is ‘here and now’, despite what we’ve been told

A quick search on the internet for “climate change images” readily yields the familiar photograph of a lone polar bear on a shrinking block of ice....

Negative trend in climate change to continue till 2060s: WMO

GENEVA – Even with successful climate mitigation efforts, the negative trend in climate will continue for the coming decades, the secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)...

Alps lost more glacier ice in 2022 than ever before: EU

GENEVA – More glacier ice melted in the Alps last year than ever before, the EU climate change service Copernicus said on Thursday. The glaciers of the...

Rising seas could flood nests of vulnerable sea turtles – new research

Fire danger in the high mountains is intensifying: That’s bad news for humans, treacherous for the environment

As wildfire risk rises in the West, wildland firefighters and officials are keeping a closer eye on the high mountains – regions once considered too wet...

Antarctica’s heart of ice has skipped a beat. Time to take our medicine

Australian Antarctic Program Partnership, Author provided   The rhythmic expansion and contraction of Antarctic sea ice is like a heartbeat. But lately, there’s been a skip...

El Niño is coming, and ocean temps are already at record highs – that can spell disaster for fish and corals

Marine heat waves can reach the ocean floor as well as surface waters. Sebastian Pena Lambarri via Unsplash, CC BY   It’s coming. Winds are weakening...