Opinion
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.
News
More than 11,000 scientists have declared the world faces a climate emergency, while Australia has been named as among the many countries not doing enough to limit warming.
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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.
The world is set to notch up a new heat record in 2016 after a sizzling 2015 as global warming stokes more floods and rising sea levels, the UN weather agency has warned.
