
Australia warming more than rest of world: BoM
Australia’s temperatures are increasing more than the global average, the nation’s weather bureau says.
Australia’s temperatures are increasing more than the global average, the nation’s weather bureau says.
Australia is a bushfire-prone nation, but several factors make this fire season worse than those past, with the risk that catastrophic conditions will become the new normal, argue Joelle Gergis and Geoff Cary.
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The United Nations’ weather agency says extreme weather last year hit 62 million people worldwide and forced 2 million people to relocate, as man-made climate change worsened.
Global emissions of carbon dioxide have increased substantially this year and are set to reach a new record, according to a new study.
If nations fail to meet global targets on climate change, a chunk of frozen soil bigger than Australia will melt, sending planet-warming gases into the atmosphere, British scientists say.
Sea ice around Antarctica has shrunk to the smallest annual extent on record after years of resisting a trend of man-made global warming, preliminary US satellite data shows.