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Urban Climates and Climate Change
Urban climatology studies how urbanisation and climate change shape local weather, with cities altering climates through heat-retaining surfaces and geographic factors like latitude and topography.
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Ocean Oxygen Loss: If Fish Could Talk
Ocean oxygen loss is widespread and accelerating in both coastal waters and the open ocean due to climate change and nutrient runoff, with profound consequences for ocean life and humanity.
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Understanding Net Zero
Achieving net zero emissions is essential to limit the impacts of climate change which are already being felt across the world. Once net zero is reached, global mean surface temperature will likely stabilise.
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Ocean Fronts
Ocean fronts act as hotspots for marine biodiversity and play an important role in regulating the Earth’s climate. As the oceans get warmer with climate change, the location, number and intensity of ocean fronts may change. This could have far-reaching implications for the climate system, marine ecosystems and global fisheries.
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Building Bridges Between Climate Scientists and Decision-Makers
Knowledge brokers work at the interface of academics and consumers of climate information, sharing knowledge with the goal of facilitating communication and achieving improved outcomes for all.
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Nature-Based Solutions
In recent years, nature-based solutions have gained considerable attention as a means to reach net-zero targets and many governments and companies are incorporating them in their net-zero strategies. Some sectors strongly advocate for these solutions while others criticise them.
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Working with Uncertainty in Climate Planning and Adaptation
Climate model simulations offer us information about possible future outcomes with varying degrees of uncertainty. Understanding uncertainty in climate projections is vital for making more informed decisions and planning adaptation responses.
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Climatic factors affecting the Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef has experienced six mass bleaching events and is currently experiencing its seventh bleaching event in 2024. What are the main drivers of coral bleaching and how is climate change affecting the reef?
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Australia’s Tinderbox Drought (2017 – 2019)
Understanding the causes of the prolonged drought that helped enable Australia’s Black Summer fire disaster.
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Projecting future heat stress in Australia using climate models
As the summer continues many of us are experiencing very hot temperatures. It is important to be prepared for extreme conditions which can lead to heat stress.
