
Why 2℃ of global warming is much worse for Australia than 1.5℃
With 2℃ of global warming, the stifling heat of January 2013 would be the norm for Australia.
With 2℃ of global warming, the stifling heat of January 2013 would be the norm for Australia.
Commissioned to solve a waste water problem on Australian rivers, this young local company’s solution could help solve one of the world’s biggest sustainability problems.
The ravages of climate change could severely hurt the ability of utilities in the 11 Western states to generate power unless they “climate proof” their power grid.
Just when everyone had pretty much written it off, the El Niño event finally emerged in February and could last through the spring and summer.
Humanity is about to experience a historically unprecedented spike in temperatures.
As California’s historic drought dries up the state’s water supplies and withers its crops, it’s also shaking up the way electricity is produced there.
Weather and climate-related disasters have caused $2.4 trillion in economic losses and nearly 2 million deaths globally since 1971.
Climate change could cost the US Department of Defence big in coming decades unless adaptation measures are taken soon.
The National Climate Assessment – a new report from the U.S. federal government – makes clear that climate change is a present-day issue and a growing threat.
Climate researchers are seeing the beginnings of what could be the most powerful El Niño event since 1997/98.
The latest IPCC report is chock full of illustrative tables and diagrams, here are 8 of the most illuminating ones that help tell an important story.