June 25, 2019
Over 150 of the country’s senior religious leaders have signed a public letter urging the Prime Minister to take more decisive action on climate change.
Leaders from across a diverse range of religions – including the heads of the Uniting Church in Australia, Muslims Au...
June 25, 2019
The City of Sydney has voted to declare that climate change ‘poses a serious risk to the people of Sydney and should be treated as a national emergency’.
In a Lord Mayoral Minute issued earlier this week, Sydney’s Lord Mayor Clover Moore asked that the Council call on t...
June 19, 2019
Immediate and broad action taken today can offset the worst impacts of climate change, a new report published in Nature Climate Change has concluded.
The study used 22 climate models to project how often temperature records would be broken under two scenarios; one of ra...
June 19, 2019
While the world focusses on the big-ticket items of climate change like renewable energy, emissions and pollution, a group of scientists have called for more attentioned to be paid to microbial actors in the climate debate.
The international scientific team, with member...
June 19, 2019
The first mission of the UK’s National Oceancgraphy Centre’s Autosub Long Range (ALR, but known to the world as Boaty McBoatface) has provided critical data on the link between increasing Antarctic winds and rising sea temperatures.
Data collected from the 2017 expediti...
June 19, 2019
A new international study has examined how climate events thousands of kilometres away can influence local marine ecosystems.
Published in Nature Communications, the research provides an assessment of major drivers of marine heatwaves, which often have devastating impac...
June 19, 2019
A team of researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks have been startled by the rapid loss of Arctic permafrost in the face of a succession of unseasonably warm summers.
The team found that the upper layers of the Arctic’s enormous subterranean permafrost has be...
June 19, 2019
Global investment in renewable energy has blasted through records, hitting USD $288 billion in 2018, far exceeding the amount spent on fossil fuel investments.
Outlined in BloombergNEF’s Renewables 2019 Global Status Report, numbers show that while investment was 11 per...
June 19, 2019
Australia is set to either enter a massive boom period of prosperity, strongly transition to a new renewable economy and enjoy more livable major cities or slump into a long period of decline and economic lethargy, a new CSIRO report has found.
The Australia National Ou...
June 18, 2019
Concrete made using industrial waste from coal-fired power stations and steel manufacturing is being used in a world-first green roads trial in Sydney.
The City of Sydney is putting the environmentally friendly building product to the test on a busy inner-city street, r...
