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Researchers Explore Why Glacial Cycles Intensified a Million Years Ago

Something big happened to the planet about a million years ago. There was a major shift in the response of Earth's climate system to variations in our orbit around the Sun.

9 Nov 2021

Study Offers a "Scorecard" for Climate Adaptation Projects

A new study, co-authored by researchers at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Forestry, offers a "scorecard" for climate adaptation projects – a set of 16 criteria that can be used to evaluate climate adaptation projects and inform their design.

9 Nov 2021

New Study Measures Tropopause Expansion Due to Warming Temperatures

A new international study states that climate change is progressively affecting the structure of Earth’s atmosphere.

9 Nov 2021

Students Shape Solutions to Net Zero at ‘Schools COP’

Revolutionary engineering ideas proposed by secondary school students will be debated in classrooms across the UK as part of Tomorrow’s Engineers Week (8 to12 November 2021).

9 Nov 2021

Climate Smart Engineering Conference Nov 16 – 17

Former US Vice President and global environmentalist Al Gore will headline the Engineers Australia Climate Smart Engineering (CSE) 2021 conference, which will be held virtually on November 16 – 17.

9 Nov 2021

IPCC Vice Chair Welcomes New Recommendations for Communicating Climate Change

As the world keenly watches for progress at the UN climate conference, the foremost scientific authority on climate change has emphasised the critical importance of communicating science effectively.

8 Nov 2021

Study Finds Human-Induced Climate Change as the Main Cause for Increasing Wildfires

Research by scientists from UCLA and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory strengthens the case that climate change has been the main cause of the growing amount of land in the western U.S. that has been destroyed by large wildfires over the past two decades.

8 Nov 2021