For the first time, researchers have studied the impact of ocean acidification on coral reefs with a device that allows them to increase levels of carbon dioxide on living coral for months at a time.
Climate change is escalating as “the most significant threat” to Australia’s wet tropics world heritage area, with an update to parliament reporting the outlook for the bioregion is a cause of “great concern”.
For almost three decades, world governments have met every year to forge a global response to the climate emergency.
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says the young generation needs to continue using their voices in unison in the fight against climate change.
Politicians, economists and even some natural scientists have tended to assume that tipping points in the Earth system — such as the loss of the Amazon rainforest or the West Antarctic ice sheet — are of low probability and little understood.
The entire UN climate talk process might have to be reviewed if nothing is achieved this year, a Niue government minister says...contentious issues remain - chief among them compensation for loss and damage and climate financing.
The course will help you better understand the linkages between gender and the environment. It will provide you with the knowledge and tools to mainstream gender, and to be an effective change-maker for sustainable development.
As the “canaries in the coalmine” the Pacific islands are calling for Parties to the Paris Agreement to honour their commitments and meet the 1.5°C global warming target at the world’s largest climate change conference in Madrid.
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.
