RAPID REACTION: IPCC report – Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just released the Summary for Policy Makers of the Working Group I report “Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis”. The report spells out...
View ArticleROUND-UP: Indian Ocean links to extreme weather in SE Australia (Nature...
EMBARGO LIFTED 21.00 AEDT Thursday 28 November, 2013 An international team of scientists, including Australians, has confirmed links between an Indian Ocean phenomenon and extreme weather events in...
View ArticleRAPID REACTION: Abbot Point dumping of dredge spoil approved – an expert...
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has approved the dumping of up to three million tonnes of dredge spoil inside the Great Barrier Reef’s park boundary. More information on the project is...
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News briefing: Recent slowdown in warming explained by new study (Nature...
EMBARGO LIFTED on Monday 10 February at 05:00 AEDT NEWS BRIEFING – Friday February 7 at 10.30 AEDT (online) While 2013 joins the world’s top ten warmest years on record, an apparent slowing in the rate...
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RAPID REACTION: Tsunami generated in Chile after 8.2 magnitude earthquake –...
A two-metre tsunami has been generated after an 8.2 earthquake in the Pacific Ocean off Chile this morning. The US Geological Survey (USGS) says the quake was centred 86km north-west of Iquique in...
View ArticleRAPID REACTION: UNESCO draft decision on Great Barrier Reef World Heritage...
Overnight, UNESCO released its draft decision on the World Heritage Status of the Great Barrier Reef. A copy of the report is available here: http://whc.unesco.org/archive/2014/whc14-38com-7B-en.pdf–...
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NEWS BRIEFING: Why climate change is drying out Australia while Antarctica...
EMBARGO LIFTED 03.00 AEST Monday 12 May NEWS BRIEFING – Friday 9 May at 11:00 AEST Australian-led research has discovered the answers to two climate change-related mysteries. Firstly, why southern...
View ArticleEXPERT REACTION: Great Barrier Reef and its resilience to climate change...
EMBARGO LIFTED 01.00 AEST Wednesday 18 June, 2014 Analysing fossilised corals suggests the Great Barrier Reef was more resilient to past climate change than we thought, say international scientists,...
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BRIEFING: Have we f*#%ed the planet yet? (Science & Anthropocene Review)
EMBARGO LIFTED 06:00 AEDT FRIDAY 16th JAN NEWS BRIEFING – Friday Jan 16th at 09:30 AEDT online Humanity has altered the planet to such a degree that we risk destabilising Earth’s natural systems,...
View ArticleEXPERT REACTION: New study shows sharks are not so primitive after all (PLOS...
EMBARGO LIFTED 04:00 AEST Fri 29 May 2015 Australian researchers have found a well preserved three-dimensional fossil of a 380 million year old shark in the Gogo formation in Western Australia. While...
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