Ocean warming threatens to wipe out corals, but scientists are trying to protect naturally resilient reefs and are nursing some others back to health...When these scientists hear that 70–90% of reefs could be gone by mid-century, they focus on the 30% that might live.
Conservationists say an official government report to the UN’s world heritage committee to be released next week must show Australia has fresh plans to attack the Great Barrier Reef’s two key threats – climate change and water quality.
Hot on the heels of the World Meteorological Organization's report on greenhouse gas concentrations, the UN Environment Programme (Unep) has published its regular snapshot of how the world is doing in cutting levels of these pollutants...Countries will have to increase their carbon-cutting ambiti
The blaze, which took place in an environment supposedly resistant to fire, is the clearest sign climate change has affected the tropics...A year ago, a black scar appeared on the far north Queensland landscape.
Prince Charles is calling for people to become more sustainable in order to reverse the damage to the environment and mitigate climate change...Prince Charles spoke about how worrying and devastating humans' impact on the environment has become."We have reached a tipping point and we still have t
This year is increasingly likely to be the planet's second- or third-warmest calendar year on record since modern temperature data collection began in 1880, according to data released this week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere put shallow, warm-water coral reef ecosystems, and the people who depend upon them at risk from two key global environmental stresses: 1) elevated sea surface temperature (that can cause coral bleaching and related mortality), and 2) ocean acidification. These global stressors: cannot be avoided by local management, compound local stressors, and hasten the loss of ecosystem services.
Oxford Dictionaries has declared “climate emergency” the word of the year for 2019, following a hundred-fold increase in usage that it says demonstrated a “greater immediacy” in the way we talk about the climate. Defined as “a situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate
While the rest of the world is struggling to adapt to climate change, Samoan villages are already facing the challenge. The village of Aopo has moved their entire community further inland as a response to cyclones and extreme weather. In new research, on the impact of climate change on Pacific Is
Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum, Dame Meg Taylor headlined this year’s Griffith University Asia Lecture 2019 at the Queensland College of Art with a focus on the geopolitical and geostrategic issues of economy, security and climate change challenging the Asia-Pacific. Dame Meg was