2020: CLEX researchers in the news

December

• The beasts to our east: What are El Ninos and La Ninas? Sydney Morning Herald. December 31. (Dr Agus Santoso).
• World battered by billion-pound disasters linked to climate change in 2020. Click Lancashire. December 30. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• The 10 most expensive climate-fuelled natural disasters in 2020. Christian Today. December 30. (Dr Andrew King).
• Extreme Weather Cost Billions Worldwide in 2020, Says Study. Interesting Engineering. December 29. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• ‘Disastrous extremes’: Christian Aid catalogues $145bn cost of 2020 weather disasters. Business Green. December 29. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Vision 2020. Real Climate. December 29. (Prof Nerilie Abram, Dr Sarah Perkins-Kilpatrick).
• Weather disasters cost $150bn in 2020, revealing impact of climate change – report. The Guardian Agence France Presse, Jakarta Post. December 28. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick)
• The world’s 10 most destructive climate disasters of 2020. news.com.au. December 28. (Dr Andrew King).
• Ten worst extreme weather events in 2020 cost world about $140bn, report says. The Independent. December 28. (Dr Andrew King).
• Counting the cost 2020: A year of climate breakdown. ReliefWeb. December 28. (Dr Andrew King, Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Climate change: Extreme weather causes huge losses in 2020. BBC Online. December 27. (Dr Sarah Perkins Kirkpatrick).
• Meet 5 Leading Female Scientists Fighting Climate Change. Women Love Tech. December 27. (Dr Adele Morrison).
• Fire and floods: brace yourself for more of this, experts say. SBS News. December 16. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Madden-Julian Oscillation: The bearer of tropical rain. ABC News. December 11. (Dr Claire Vincent).
• Australia’s weird weather baffling scientists. news.com.au. December 8. (Dr Ailie Gallant).
• A change in the weather: new demand for TV presenters to include climate in forecasts. The Guardian. December 5. (Prof Julie Arblaster).
• Heat records have fallen around the world in 2020, says World Meteorological Organisation. ABC News. December 5. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• Heat records have fallen around the world in 2020, says World Meteorological Organisation. ABC News. December 4. (Prof Nerilie Abram).

November

• Climate change is already here: major scientific report. Sydney Morning Herald. November 13. (Prof Andy Pitman).
• Advancing Knowledge of ENSO in a Changing Climate. EOS. November 9 (Dr Agus Santoso).
• Extreme weather explained: How climate change makes storms stronger. DW. November 6. (Dr Alejandro Di Luca).
• Weather bureau latest: Locals can expect a warm, sunny weekend, ideal weather for this week’s Dubbo Farmers Market. Dubbo Times. November 5. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• There’s still a way to go with equality for women in science. Here’s what needs to change. Mammamia. November 5. (Dr Adele Morrison).
• ‘Catastrophic’ south-east Queensland storms lead to thousands of insurance claims, homes deemed ‘unliveable’. ABC News. November 3. (Dr Joshua Soderholm).
• Hail stones, thunderstorms, typhoons: A wild weekend of weather. The New Daily. November 1. (Dr Shayne McGregor).

October

• Colorado is fighting the worst wildfires in its history. The Hill. October 30. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Weather Bureau latest: Dubbo forecast for a warm breezy weekend to finish off October. Daily Telegraph. October 29. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• New column to provide fresh insight on Geelong weather and climate using data from the Bureau of Meteorology. Geelong Advertiser. October 29. (Dr Ailie Gallant).
• WeatheX. Coolum News, Caloundra News, Sunshine Coast News. October 28. (WeatheX app).
• “The genie is out of the bottle, we have to turn down the heat” – A grim milestone heralds a grim future. Croakey. October 28. (Assoc Prof Donna Green).
• World on fire 2020: Experts explain the global wildfire crisis. Landscape News, Resilience. October 21. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick)
• Fire, flood and plague: Essays about 2020. The great unravelling: ‘I never thought I’d live to see the horror of planetary collapse’. The Guardian. October 15. (Dr Joelle Gergis).
• Brisbane and South-East Queensland warned to prepare for floods and bushfires this summer. ABC Online. October 12. (WeatheX, Dr Joshua Soderholm).
• 5 Australian women who are solving the biggest problems of climate change. Mamamia. October 12. (Dr Adele Morrison).
• ANU’s Adele Morrison receives $25,000 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science grant for climate change research. The Canberra Times. October 12. (Dr Adele Morrison).
• Budget 2020: Keeping Australia at the forefront of weather and climate modelling. ZdNet. October 9. (Prof Andy Hogg).
• Australia’s worst ever bushfires WEREN’T caused by climate change and the country is actually getting wetter – according to a controversial new book which claims apocalyptic blazes are NORMAL. Daily Mail. October 9. (Dr Andrew King).
• ‘Thrilled’: Next generation climate modelling gets budget kickstart. Sydney Morning Herald. October 7. (Prof Andy Pitman, Prof Christian Jakob).
• The Sydney suburbs that hit 50C last summer. Sydney Morning Herald. October 5. (Prof Jason Evans).

September

• La Nina declared: Unexpected effect of climate driver. news.com.au. September 30. (Dr Joelle Gergis).
• La Nina event tipped to be declared, points to stormy, wet times ahead. Sydney Morning Herald. September 29. (Dr Agus Santoso).
• We looked at 35 years of rainfall and learnt how droughts start in the Murray-Darling Basin. The Conversation, Lifehacker. September 26. (Chiara Holgate, Prof Jason Evans).
• How summer bushfire smoke blew out our health costs by almost $2 billion. Sydney Morning Herald. September 22. (Dr Andrew King).
• As wildfires rage, climate experts warn: The future we were worried about is here. NBC News. September 19. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• PhD students need support at the best of the times. How can you help in a pandemic? The Conversation, Study International. September 15. (Dr Melissa Hart).
• The Users’ Guide to the Future #3 – Can we fight bushfires with cool burns? The Next Billion Seconds podcast. September 15. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• The Users Guide to the Future #2 – Why are we seeing more heatwaves? The Next Billion Seconds podcast. September 10. (Prof Nerilie Abram, Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).

• Climate explained: methane is short-lived in the atmosphere but leaves long-term damage. The Conversation. September 9. (Zebedee Nicholls)
• The Users Guide to the Future #1 – Designing for Flood Resilience in a Wetter World. The Next Billion Seconds podcast. September 8. (Prof Christian Jakob, Prof Steve Sherwood).
• Bureau backs its forecasts as storm rages over aircraft omissions. Sydney Morning Herald. September 8. (Prof Craig Bishop, Prof Todd Lane).
• As wildfires rage, climate experts warn: The future we were worried about is here. NBC News. September 7. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• The strongest ocean currents are heating up. Cosmos Magazine. September 4. (Dr Hakase Hayashida).
• El Nino lulls lead to harsh floods, fires and droughts: study. Sydney Morning Herald. September 3. (Dr Agus Santoso).
• New analysis reveals where marine heatwaves will intensify fastest. Lab Manager. September 3. (Dr Hakase Hayashia. Prof Peter Strutton).
• Thinner Arctic ice more sensitive to ocean heat fluxes and storms. Mirage. September 1. (Dr Amelie Meyer).

August

• Marine heatwaves will intensify in the strongest ocean currents. Earth.com. August 31. (Dr Hakase Hayashida. Prof Peter Strutton).
• Experts workshop climate change responses. Utility. August 31. (CLEX).
• Ocean currents will have more intense heat waves as climate warms. UPI. August 28. (Dr Hakase Hayashida, Prof Peter Strutton).
• New analysis reveals where marine heatwaves will intensify fastest. Newswise. August 28. (Dr Hakase Hayashida, Prof Peter Strutton).
• Study Shows ‘Unambiguous Evidence’ Covid-19 Infectious in the Air, Researchers Claim. Common Dreams. August 12. (Dr Robyn Schofield).
• Atmospheric rivers form in both the Indian and Pacific Oceans, bringing rain from the tropics to the south. ABC Online. August 11. (Kim Reid)
• BOM says more wild weather coming, after icy blast turns south-east into winter wonderland. ABC News Online. August 7. (WeatheX)
• Flooding could occur daily in Sydney by the end of this century because of climate change. The Guardian, MSN News. August 5. (Prof Matthew England).
• Advanced International Analysis Narrows Range of Climate’s Sensitivity to CO2. Sci Tech Daily. Focus Technica. August 4. (Prof Steve Sherwood).
• Glacier melt linked to human greenhouse gas emissions – Research. Voxy. August 4. (Dr Andrew King).

July

• The Planet Has a Fever. State of the Planet Columbia University. July 31. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Climate change to shift hazard reduction burning, increasing smoke pollution risks, research finds. Canberra Times. July 30. (CLEX research).
• Under climate change, winter will be the best time for bush burn-offs – and that could be bad news for public health. The Conversation, Prevention Web, Mirage News. July 30. (Prof Jason Evans, Dr Melissa Hart, Dr Annette Hirsch)
• How climate change will impact prescribed burning days. Phys.org. July 30. (Prof Jason Evans).
• Study shows how climate change may alter prescribed burning across Australia. News Medical Life Sciences. July 29. (Prof Jason Evans).
• Need for systems to predict marine heatwaves. Mirage News. July 29. (Prof Neil Holbrook).
• When Rosie Kew was a small child she was terrified of storms. Now she chases them. ABC News. July 26. (Dr Joshua Soderholm, WeatheX).

• News Corp columnist Ian Plimer’s climate denialism called out by press council. The Guardian. July 24. (Prof Katrin Meissner).
• Hope in the time of climate change. The Greens (article), Mirage. July 24. (Dr Sarah Perkins Kirkpatrick, Dr Gab Abramowitz, Dr Alex Sen Gupta).
• NOAA’s La Niña watch could signal a dry winter for Los Angeles. Los Angeles Times. July 23. (Prof Steve Sherwood).
• Major new climate study rules out less severe global warming scenarios. Washington Post. July 23. (Prof Steve Sherwood).
• How Much Will the Planet Warm if Carbon Dioxide Levels Double? New York Times, The Morning Call. July 23. (Prof Steve Sherwood).
• After 40 years, researchers finally see Earth’s climate destiny more clearly. Science Magazine (AAAS). July 23. (Prof Steve Sherwood).
• The evidence is in: we need to flatten the carbon-emissions curve. Sydney Morning Herald. July 23. (Prof Steve Sherwood).
• Sensitive planet: Scientists narrow the expected heating from CO2 rise. Sydney Morning Herald. July 23. (Prof Steve Sherwood).
• Global heating: best and worst case scenarios less likely than thought. The Guardian, MSN News. July 23. (Prof Steve Sherwood).
• The climate won’t warm as much as we feared – but it will warm more than we hoped. The Conversation, The Next Web. July 23. (Prof Steve Sherwood).
• Guest post: Why low-end ‘climate sensitivity’ can now be ruled out. Carbon Brief. July 23. (Prof Steve Sherwood).
• International analysis narrows range of climate’s sensitivity to carbon dioxide. Phys.org. July 23. (Prof Steve Sherwood).
• Major study rules out super-high and low climate sensitivity to CO₂. ArsTechnica. July 23. (Prof Steve Sherwood-led research).
• New international analysis narrows the range in sensitivity of climate to CO2. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. July 23. (Prof Steve Sherwood).
• Research reveals sensitivity of Earth’s climate to carbon dioxide. AZO Cleantech. July 23. (Prof Steve Sherwood).
• Climate Sensitivity: A new assessment. RealClimate. July 22. (Prof Steve Sherwood-led research).
• Top Scientists Just Ruled Out Best-Case Global Warming Scenarios. Bloomberg Green, Financial Post. July 23. (Prof Steve Sherwood led research).
• Comprehensive study gives clearest estimate yet of global warming. ECNS (Xinhua wires). July 23. (Prof Steve Sherwood).
• Marine heatwaves affecting ocean’s tiniest organisms. Mirage News. July 22. (Dr Hakase Hayashida, Assoc Prof Pete Strutton).
• Not Just In India, Heatwaves Have Become Longer & More Frequent Since The 1950s Around The World. ScoopWoop. July 18. (CLEX, Prof Lisa Alexander).
• Weather: Extreme heat, heavy rain more frequent and more intense. NewsHub. July 12. (Prof Lisa Alexander).

• Winter whiteout: Fog bomb causes chaos on the roads as forecasters warn Australia is set for a soaking six months of above average rainfall. Daily Mail. July 10. (Dr Andrew King).
• Heatwave trends accelerate worldwide. Cosmos Magazine. July 8. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Climate Change Is Real: Extreme Heat And Rain Are Occurring More Often. India Times. July 8. (Assoc Prof Lisa Alexander).
• Increasing frequency of heat waves worldwide since the 1950s. AccuWeather. July 8. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Heat waves worldwide have become longer and more frequent in last 70 years, may worsen due to global warming. Meaww. July 8. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Heatwaves have become longer, frequent in last 70 years: Study. Outlook Indo Asian News Service (IANS), Web India, Business Insider India. July 7. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Scientists discover new ‘human fingerprint’ on global drought patterns. Carbon Brief. July 6. (Dr Andrew King).
• Heat waves have become more frequent and intense since the 1950s. New York Post. July 6. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Heatwaves are more frequent and durable. Reforma. July 6. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Heat Waves Have Increased in Frequency and Length Since the 1950s, Study Says. The Weather Channel. July 6. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Extreme heat and rain: thousands of weather stations show there’s now more of both, for longer. The Conversation, Prevention Web, News Hub. July 6. (Prof Lisa Alexander).
• Heatwaves are getting hotter, longer, more frequent globally. ZME Science. July 6. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Heatwaves increased in frequency and duration since 1950s. Brinkwire. July 5. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Heatwave Trends Accelerate Worldwide – More and Longer Heatwaves Since 1950’s. SciTech Daily. July 5. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Research: heat waves become more frequent and longer. Free News. July 5. (ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes).
• Climate crisis: Heatwaves have become longer and more frequent since the 1950s. The Independent (UK). July 4. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Heatwaves have been increasing in frequency and duration since the 1950s in nearly every part of the world, study shows. Daily Mail Australia. July 4. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Brace Yourself: Intensity of Heat Waves Increasing, Could Create a ‘Ring of Fire’ Pattern. International Business Times. July 4. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Trend towards worsening heatwaves is accelerating, new research finds. Sydney Morning Herald. July 3. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• The world endured 2 extra heatwave days per decade since 1950 – but the worst is yet to come. The Conversation, MENAFN, Stuff NZ, Times Australian. July 3. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Heatwaves have become longer in most of the world since 1950s – study. The Guardian. July 3. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Heatwave alert: Hot weather trends have ‘accelerated’ in past 70 years – climate study. Express (UK). July 3. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Heat waves have become more frequent and intense in most of the world since 1950s: study. Fox News, Fox Wilmington. July 3. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick)
• Heatwave trends accelerate worldwide. Phys.org. July 3 (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Heat waves have become more frequent and intense in most of the world since 1950s: study. Armenian Reporter. July 3. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• A New Study Reveals Increased Frequency and Duration of Hot Air Waves. Somag News. July 3. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Heat waves have become more frequent and intense in most of the world since the 1950s: study. News Dio. July 3. (Dr Sarah Perkins Kirkpatrick).
• Eyes in the sky: Investors reach for new tools to gauge climate change risk. Thomson Reuters, Prevention Web, NASDAQ. July 2. (Prof Andy Pitman).
• On movements and shake-ups. The Fifth Estate. July 2. (Dr Joelle Gergis).

June

• The chance of a La Nina forming has doubled, Bureau of Meteorology says. ABC Weather. June 24. (Dr Andrew King).
• Clouds may explain why climate models are predicting a warmer future. New Scientist. June 24. (Prof Steve Sherwood).
• NSW prepares for low-carbon future, but its policies still need teeth. Renew Economy. June 23. (Prof Andy Pitman).
• Multiple firestorms during 2019-20 blazes. AAP, The Canberra Times, The New Daily, 801-5RM. June 16. (CLEX research).
• Pass the shiraz, please: how Australia’s wine industry can adapt to climate change. The Conversation. June 16. (Prof Nathan Bindoff).
• Australia’s longest weather record reveals snow in surprising places. ABC Online. June 11. (Joelle Gergis, Linden Ashcroft).
• Are new dams and answer to the water crisis? Green Left. June 11. (CLEX).
• Climate models show that the worst droughts are yet to come. Muy Interesante. June 8. (Dr Anna Ukkola).
• We dug up Australian weather records back to 1838 and found snow is falling less often. The Conversation, ANU Science, Australian Times (UK). June 4. (Dr Joelle Gergis, Dr Linden Ashcroft).
• Records reveal new trends in Australian temperature extremes. Phys.org. June 4. (Dr Joelle Gergis, Dr Linden Ashcroft).
• Climate change will make droughts more intense, more frequent. ZME News. June 3. (Dr Anna Ukkola).
• Insurers, scientists team up in ‘ground-breaking’ Australian initiative. Insurance Business Australia. June 3. (CLEX).
• Australia among global ‘hot spots’ as droughts worsen in warming world. Sydney Morning Herald. June 1. (Dr Anna Ukkola, Prof Andy Pitman).

May

• ‘Atmospheric river’ 2000km long wallops Western Australia, heads east. Sydney Morning Herald (Fairfax/Channel 9). May 25. (Kim Reid, Prof Steve Sherwood).
• Just how hot will it get this century? Latest climate models suggest it could be worse than we thought. The Conversation, Australian Times (UK), Cosmos Magazine, Gizmodo (Australia). May 18. (Assoc Prof Julie Arblaster).

April

• Coronavirus and climate: Australia’s chance to shift to green energy. BBC. April 27. (Prof Matthew England).
• Call to unravel basic climate change. The Good Men Project. April 23. (Prof Christian Jakob).
• Climate scientists say coronavirus could be Australia’s golden opportunity. SBS News. April 21. (Prof Matthew England).
• Water in estuaries along NSW coast has warmed by more than 2C, study finds. The Guardian. April 14. (Dr Ben Henley).
• Covid-19 and the climate: how will the battle against global warming look from the other side? Medium. April 14. (Assoc Prof Donna Green).
• The world is coming together to fight coronavirus. It can do the same for the climate crisis. CNN, BBC News. April 8. (Assoc Prof Donna Green).
• Coral studies find link to bushfires. Tapei Times. April 1. (Prof Nerilie Abram).

March

• Animals Farmed: Coronavirus threat to EU food supplies, America’s beef capital and the ‘anti-meat agenda’. The Guardian. March 24. (Prof Katrin Meissner).
• How the coronavirus crisis is helping improve the environment across the world. SBS News. March 21. (Dr Robyn Schofield).
• The world is coming together to fight coronavirus. It can do the same for the climate crisis. CNN, KTVZ, Erie News Now. March 19. (Assoc Prof Donna Green).
• Indian Ocean phenomenon spells climate trouble for Australia. Mirage News. March 19. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• The Indian Ocean puts Australia’s weather in turmoil, says researchers. The Four Point Play. March 13. (Dr Caroline Ummenhofer, Prof Nerilie Abram).
• Responding to ‘wild’ online comments about climate change. news.com.au. March 11. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Scientists warn of ‘critical gaps’ in Australia’s climate science capability. The Guardian. March 11. (Prof Christian Jakob).
• “Critical gaps” uncovered in Australian climate change research. Asia and Pacific. March 11. (CLEX)
• Worrying Indian Ocean phenomenon spells climate trouble for Australia. Sci Tech Daily. March 11. (Prof Nerilie Abram, Prof Matthew England, Dr Nicky Wright).
• Extreme ocean phenomena in 2019 may have set Australia up for the fires that ravaged the country, study finds. Newsweek. March 11. (Dr Caroline Ummenhofer, Prof Nerilie Abram).
• More studies, faster forecasting needed to fight flash drought, says paper. Kunr. March 11. (CLEX research).
• A rare natural phenomenon brings severe drought to Australia. Climate change is making it more common. The Conversation. March 10. (Prof Nerilie Abram, Dr Nicky Wright, Dr Bethany Ellis).
• More drought in Australia’s future as weather patterns change. Sydney Morning Herald. March 10. (Prof Nerilie Abram, Prof Matthew England).
• Indian Ocean system that drives extreme weather in Australia likely to worsen with global heating. The Guardian. March 10. (Prof Nerilie Abram, Prof Matthew England).
• Indian Ocean reveals future climate risks. The Courier (AAP), West Coast Sentinel. March 10. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• 12 year deadline: How long we’ve got under climate change. news.com.au. March 9. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• The big impact of a small number – what 2C of warming actually looks like. news.com.au. March 9. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• The biggest climate change myths debunked. news.com.au. March 9. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• These are the places across Australia people will soon struggle to live in without serious challenges. news.com.au. March 9. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• ‘I’m profoundly sad, I feel guilty’: scientists reveal personal fears about the climate crisis. The Guardian. March 8. (Prof Katrin Meissner).

• Craig Kelly says Australia had more rainfall in the first 20 years of this century than the first 20 years of last century. Is he correct? ABC Online. March 6. (Dr Anna Ukkola, Dr Ben Henley).

• Bushfire crisis conditions eight times more likely under 2C warming, analysis shows. The Guardian. March 5. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• UNSW to jettison fossil fuel investments by 2025 ‘at the latest’. Sydney Morning Herald. March 5. (Prof Matthew England).
• Why the forest fires were in Australia so devastating? Indo & NY. March 5. (Dr Andrew King).
• A warming climate is implicated in Australian wildfires. Inside Climate News. March 4. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• The Frontline: experts answer your questions on the impacts of the climate emergency – as it happened. The Guardian. March 3. (Assoc Prof Donna Green).
• Australia on the frontline: ask an expert about climate change and its effects. The Guardian. March 1. (Assoc Prof Donna Green).

February

• Australia’s aggressive bushfires destroyed over a fifth of the nation’s forest. IFLS. February 27. (Dr Andrew King).
• The politics of climate change. NBC (US). February 25. (Dr Sarah Perkins Kirkpatrick).
• ‘A fiery wake-up call for climate science’: Australian bushfires caused an ‘unprecedented’ amount of damage and destroyed a FIFTH of the continent’s forests. Daily Mail. February 26. (Dr Andrew King).
• ‘Extraordinary’ fires burnt at historical size, beyond climate projections. Sydney Morning Herald. February 25. (Dr Andrew King).
• Why drought-busting rain depends on the tropical oceans. The Conversation, Daily Bulletin, Beef Central. February 25. (Prof Andy Pitman, Dr Andrew King, Dr Anna Ukkola, Dr Ben Henley, Dr Josephine Brown).
• Bush fires burned a fifth of Australia’s forest, study finds. Japan Times (AFP). February 25. (Dr Andrew King).
• Fires in scientific focus but climate link proves elusive. The Australian. February 25. (Dr Andrew King).
• Australia: Queensland braces for flooding, police declare emergency. International Business Times. February 25. (Prof Matthew England).
• Those horrific wildfires in Australia destroyed a fifth of the continent’s forests. Science Alert. February 25. (Dr Andrew King)
• First look under imperilled Antarctic glacier finds ‘warm water coming from all directions’. Nature. February 20. (Prof Matthew England).
• Inside Australia’s climate emergency: the air we breathe. The Guardian. February 20. (Assoc Prof Donna Green).
• Firefighters in Australia thanked with giant Times Square billboard. CBS News, WTOC Local, WB-TV. February 20. (Dr Joëlle Gergis).
• Australia’s bushfires show drastic effects of climate change. CBS News. February 16. (Dr Joelle Gergis).
• Australia’s climate crisis has been building for years but no one listened. CNN. February 13. (Prof Nerilie Abram, Dr Linden Ashcroft).
• Indian Ocean Dipole linked to global warming in new research by Australian scientists. ABC Online. February 13. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• Are the days of a carefree Australian summer numbered? ABC Online. February 11. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• Australia’s wildfires: Is this the new normal? Yale Climate Connections. February 10. (Dr Linden Ashcroft).
• A summer of flame. Sydney Morning Herald. February 8. (Dr Joelle Gergis).
• Antarctica logs hottest temperature on record with a reading of 18.3C. The Guardian, Green Queen (HK). February 7. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• Record-breaking temperature of nearly 65ºF logged in Antarctica as scientists sound alarm over rapid ice melt. Common Dreams. February 7. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• The world’s oceans are speeding up — another mega-scale consequence of climate change. Washington Post, Eco Watch. February 6. (Dr Alex Sen Gupta)
• Rocky Mountains Institute: Ways to view the climate as an infrastructure asset. Greenbiz. February 5. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• Melbourne’s crazy January weather: hailstorms, floods and wildly fluctuating temperatures. Monash Lens. February 5. (Dr Rob Warren).
• No resilient Australia without emission cuts. Cosmos Magazine. February 1. (Multiple CLEX researchers)

January

• Fireproofing our future: Why Indigenous “cultural burning” could be the solution to Australia’s bushfire epidemic. The Women’s Weekly. January 30. (Dr Joelle Gergis).
• Malin Moench: One continent on fire is enough. The Salt Lake Tribune. January 27. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• He’s cherrypicking with intent: Here’s what the climate scientist Andrew Bolt keeps quoting would like you to know. The Feed SBS News. January 27. (Prof Andy Pitman).
• How farmers can help to reforest Australia and suck carbon from the atmosphere. Domain Fairfax. January 25. (Prof Andy Pitman).
• Australia’s weather has been super weird this week. Here’s why. Mashable. January 24. (Dr Joshua Soderholm).
• The race to decipher how climate change influenced Australia’s record fires. Nature. January 23. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Huge dust cloud engulfs South Australia, turns skies orange. NBC News. January 23. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Solving the climate crisis? Time to mobilize for the climate jobs of the future. OpenDemocracy. January 22. (Dr Joelle Gergis).
• As Australia burns, a climate-change denier rallies the troops. New York Times. January 22. (Dr Joelle Gergis).
• What has made the hail so bad over the past few days? ABC News Online. January 22. (Dr Joshua Soderholm).
• CFCs are a major driver of Arctic warming, study finds. Globe and Mail. January 20. (Rishav Goyal).
• Out of the bushfires and into land management plans. The Australian. January 18. (Prof Andy Pitman).
• Australia’s wildfires and climate emergency. The Himalayan Times. January 17. (Dr Joelle Gergis).
• What is ‘real’ action on climate change? Sydney Morning Herald. January 16. (Prof Matthew England).
• Yes, we are suffering a climate emergency but is averting disaster possible? Harpers Bazaar. January 16. (Dr Joelle Gergis).
• WATCH — ‘We can’t treat it as normal’: Fires continue to devastate Australia. CBC Kids News. January 15. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• Firenadoes, ember attacks and megafires: Australia is seeing sci-fi weather. Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer. January 14. (Prof Nerile Abram, Dr Andrew King).
• The Sydney suburbs where rainfall is at its lowest on record. Brisbane Times. January 14. (Dr Ailie Gallant).
• Some say we’ve seen bushfires worse than this before. But they’re ignoring a few key facts. The Conversation, Red, Green and Blue, Gizmodo, InDaily. January 14. (Dr Joelle Gergis).
• Australia’s bushfire Is destroying Earth with climate change, and we only have us to blame. India Times. January 14. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• The Australian bushfires’ link with climate change is a warning for the rest of the world. Bustle. January 14. (Prof Andy Pitman).
• Ecological grief, ecocide and the Australian bush fires. Scoop NZ. January 14. (Dr Joelle Gergis).
• Scott Morrison talks of going ‘even further’ on emissions in response to fires. Sydney Morning Herald. January 12. (Prof Andy Pitman).
• Scientists paint Australia fires as red alert on climate change. Thomson Reuters, National Post, Yeni Safak, Taipei Times. January 11. (Prof Nerilie Abram, Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Terror, hope, anger, kindness: the complexity of life as we face the new normal. The Guardian. January 11. (Dr Joelle Gergis).
• How climate change is fanning Australia’s flames. Science Friday podcast. January 10. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Policy File: Australia’s bushfire nightmare. Asia & The Pacific Policy Society. January 9. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• Australia burns on: How it happened and what to do. Environmental Protection. January 9. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Research shows Montreal Protocol is slowing global warming. R744.com, Hydrocarbons21. January 9. (Rishav Goyal, Prof Matthew England).
• Investigating the ocean’s influence on Australia’s drought. WHOI. January 9. (Dr Caroline Ummenhofer).
• Australia bushfires: Govt report in 2008 predicted climate change would intensify wildfires in 2020. Newshub NZ. January 9. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Australia’s vast wildfires foretold in 2007 UN climate warning . Bloomberg Quint. January 9. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick)
• How Rupert Murdoch is influencing Australia’s bushfire debate. The New York Times, Straits Times. January 8. (Dr Joelle Gergis).
• Misinformation campaign targets Australia wildfires. NewsMax. January 8. (Dr Joelle Gergis).
• Op-Ed: Australia is now the ‘Poster Child’ for the climate crisis. Digital Journal. January 8. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• A crash course in climate change. Grazia. January 8. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• In Australia’s burning forests, signs we’ve passed a global warming tipping point. Inside Climate News. January 8. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• Australian government report predicted severe wildfires 11 years ago. New Scientist. January 8. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Funds needed to fight wildfires. The Beverly Review. January 8. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• How Australia’s bushfires will affect us for a lifetime to come. Femestella. January 7. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Media reaction: Australia’s bushfires and climate change. Carbon Brief; Red, Green and Blue. January 7. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• Visual guide: see how Australia’s bushfires are raging across the country. The Guardian. January 7. (Dr Joelle Gergis).
• The crucial lessons from Australia’s wildfires. The New York Times. January 7. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• Fire clouds and ember attacks: How Australia’s fires are creating rare weather phenomena. NBC News. January 7. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Jakarta’s floods are yet another wake-up call on climate change. Vice. January 7. (Dr Markus Donat).
• Slowing global warming by accident. National Geographic. January 7. (Rishav Goyal, Dr Martin Jucker).
• Daily Briefing: Bushfire tragedy shows need for climate leadership. Carbon Brief. January 6. (Dr Joelle Gergis).
• Australia can only save itself if it fixes the rot in its political system. Byline Times. January 6. (Prof Lisa Alexander, Prof Andy Pitman).
• Rethinking climate modelling to prepare for even hotter temperatures. Phys.org, Futurity. January 6. (Dr Andrew King).
• It’s raining in Australia but the crisis is far from over. The Canary. January 6. (Dr Joelle Gergis).
• Experts confirm climate change is fueling Australia’s devastating wildfires. American Independent (Associated Press). January 6. (Prof Nerilie Abram.
• Twice the size of Belgium: Fueled by climate change, Australia burning like never before. Daily Sabah. January 5. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• Australia’s fires could change the country forever. NBC News, News 4 Tuscon, 41NBC. January 4. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• How to help people and animals affected by the Australia bushfires – plus ways to fight for climate justice. Teen Vogue. January 4. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Apocalyptic fires in Australia are now generating their own severe weather systems. The Mary Sue. January 4. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Explained: Why massive Australian bush fires are triggering thunderstorms. India Today AAP. January 4. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• We are seeing the very worst of our scientific predictions come to pass in these bushfires. The Guardian. January 3. (Dr Joelle Gergis).
• Australian wildfires rage as another state declares disaster. NBC News (US). January 3. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• How climate change, other factors stoke Australia fires: Q&A. Washington Post (AP), Tampa Bay Times, The Japan Times, WBOC, Phys.org, Sioux City Journal, Albany Democrat Herald, WTTW News, Rapid City Journal, The Denver Post. January 3. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• Climate deniers are cooking themselves — and everyone else. The Week. January 3. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• Morning briefing: Australia wildfires rage as another State declares disaster. NBC News. January 3. (Dr Sarah Perkns-Kirkpatrick).
• How to help Australia’s unpaid firefighters battle the bushfire crisis. Mashable (Australia). January 3. (Prof Nerilie Abram).
• The Australian wildfires are so bad you can see them from space. Futurism. January 3. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• 2019 was Australia’s hottest year on record – 1.5C above average temperature. The Guardian. January 2. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick).
• Why more clouds can mean less rain in Australia. Pursuit. January 2. (Kim Reid, Dr Andrew King, Dr Claire Vincent).