19 March 2024, WMO: Climate change indicators reached record levels in 2023: WMO. The state of the climate in 2023 gave ominous new significance to the phrase “off the charts.” Key messages State of Global Climate report confirms 2023 as hottest … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Ecosystem Stress
6 February 2024, The conversation: Dangerous climate tipping points will affect Australia. The risks are real and cannot be ignored. n 2023, we saw a raft of news stories about climate tipping points, including the accelerating loss of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the potential dieback of the Amazon … Continue reading →
14 September 2023, The Conversation: How rising water vapour in the atmosphere is amplifying warming and making extreme weather worse. This year’s string of record-breaking disasters – from deadly wildfires and catastrophic floods to record-high ocean temperatures and record-low sea ice in Antarctica – seems like an acceleration … Continue reading →
28 August 2023, The Conversation: Indigenous rangers are burning the desert the right way – to stop the wrong kind of intense fires from raging. Even though it’s still winter, the fire season has already started in Australia’s arid centre. About … Continue reading →