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...
View ArticleBook 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,...
View ArticleAssisted 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...
View ArticleExtreme 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...
View ArticleEnergy 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...
View ArticleWhile 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleSalt, 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...
View ArticleTurtle 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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