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Forecasting heat wave severity

Heat waves are a feature of the Australian summer and they claim more lives each year than other natural events — bushfires, floods, and storms — combined. As the climate continues to warm due to the...

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Book review: The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

There’s an old video clip that many Australians are familiar with. In black and white, the last known thylacine – or Tasmanian tiger – quietly paces about its caged enclosure, reclines in the sun,...

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Assisted colonisation of Australian tortoise sets controversial precedent

From ScienceInsider, August 11, 2016 (Photo credit: Gerald Kuchling) As long as it has been known to science, the diminutive western swamp tortoise has been in peril. By the time it was formally named...

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Extreme fire weather forecast for Australia and the Mediterranean

From Cosmos Magazine, February 7, 2017 (Image: bertknot via Flickr) Extreme wildfires are set to surge as the number of days that foster these catastrophic events climbs from 20% to 50% in...

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Energy positive: how Denmark’s Samsø island switched to zero carbon

From The Guardian, February 24, 2017 (Image: Marcelo Medeiros via Flickr) Anyone doubting the potential of renewable energy need look no further than the Danish island of Samsø. The 4,000-inhabitant...

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While governments dither, companies step up with environmental targets

From The Guardian, March 10, 2017 (Image: reynermedia via Flickr) Each year, Investa Office Management releases its corporate sustainability report. In 2016, it announced that electricity use was down...

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How an Indigenous renewable energy alliance aims to cut power costs and...

From the Guardian, March 17, 2017 (Image: Rusty Stewart via Flickr) Like so many of the Indigenous communities dotted across the Australian continent, the remote communities in north-west New South...

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Salt, silicon or graphite: energy storage goes beyond lithium ion batteries

From The Guardian, April 6, 2017 (Image: Solar thermal plant in Spain, Beyond Zero Emissions via Flickr) Between the political bickering following a spate of blackouts in South Australia and the...

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Turtle deaths highlight precarious environmental situation

(Image: Jarrad Prangell from Symbio Wildlife Park holds a Bellinger River Snapping Turtle) Four summers ago, death swept through the small population of Bellinger River Snapping Turtles. Thankfully,...

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