1 November 2023, The Conversation: Queensland’s fires are not easing at night. That’s a bad sign for the summer ahead. This week, dozens of fires have burned across Queensland. More homes have burned in the state than during the 2019–2020 Black … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Impacts Observed & Projected
I November 2023, NASA: 2023 Ozone Hole Ranks 16th Largest, NASA and NOAA Researchers Find. The 2023 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size on Sept. 21, according to annual satellite and balloon-based measurements made by NASA and NOAA. At 10 … Continue reading →
24 October 2023, Reuters: Meltdown of West Antarctic Ice Sheet unavoidable, study says. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet will continue to melt this century regardless of how much the world slashes planet-warming emissions, research from the British Antarctic Survey has found, … 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 →