The science behind climate extremes is fascinating and diverse.
Our experts love to share their work with the media, websites like The Conversation and here at climateextremes.org.au – here’s some of their latest articles.
Note: sometimes we also share work and articles from researchers and organisations not directly affiliated or funded by our Centre. We love to share interesting work done by others in our field. If you’d like to share or adapt our work, please get in touch – email clex@unsw.edu.au
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Australia could rapidly shift to clean transport – if we had a strategy. So we put this plan together
We must move to grasp this opportunity to clean our transport sector while securing new jobs, improving our national security, and cleaning the air we all breathe.
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A climate scientist on India and Pakistan’s horror heatwave, and the surprising consequences of better air quality
India and Pakistan are both working to reduce heatwave impacts through plans that also focus on early warning of heatwaves and improved public communication of ways to find relief from heat.
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Extreme climate and weather events in a warmer world
The world must pull together to create a future in which extreme events, and the damage they cause, remain relatively rare
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Tiny satellites are changing the way we explore our planet and beyond
Want to go to space? It could cost you.
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The east coast rain seems endless. Where on Earth is all the water coming from?
At any one time, Earth’s atmosphere holds only about a week’s worth of rain. But rainfall and floods have devastated Australia’s eastern regions for weeks and more heavy rain is forecast. So where’s all this water coming from?
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‘One of the most extreme disasters in colonial Australian history’: climate scientists on the floods and our future risk: The Conversation
While the role of climate change is hard to pin down in Australia’s biggest floods, we know flooding often strikes our east coast. Building greater resilience to severe flooding would help lessen their impact.