Climate Change Series

Climate Change Series

Restoring the Everglades will benefit both humans and nature

May 30, 2016 02:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Everglades National Park (ENP) is our only national wetland park, and one of the largest aquascapes in the world. Perhaps more than any other U.S. national park, ENPs treasures are hard to defend. Lying at the southern end...

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We're kidding ourselves if we think we can 'reset' Earth's damaged ecosystems

May 30, 2016 00:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Earth is in a land degradation crisis. If we were to take the roughly one-third of the worlds land that has been degraded from its natural state and combine it into a single entity, these Federated States of Degradia would...

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Climate change, tourism and the Great Barrier Reef: what we know

May 27, 2016 08:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

The removal of an entire section on the Great Barrier Reef from an international report on World Heritage and climate change has been justified by the Australian government because of the impact on tourism. The Guardian...

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Antarctica may not be as isolated as we thought, and that's a worry

May 27, 2016 06:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

For a long time, we have thought of Antarctica as isolated from the rest of the world. The continent is entirely surrounded by the Southern Ocean, which heaves with giant waves whipped up by intense winds, and is home to...

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El Niño is over, but has left its mark across the world

May 25, 2016 23:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature

The 2015-16 El Niño has likely reached its end. Tropical Pacific Ocean temperatures, trade winds, cloud and pressure patterns have all dropped back to near normal, although clearly the events impacts around the...

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Why we need better ways to cut greenhouse gases from agriculture

May 24, 2016 05:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Although 177 countries signed the Paris Agreement to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in April 2016, the reductions they have pledged so far are not enough. To stand a chance of limiting warming to 2 degrees...

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Why has climate change disappeared from the Australian election radar?

May 23, 2016 09:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

Two weeks into a protracted election campaign, it is looking ever-more likely that climate change is to be placed way down the order of business at least for the major parties. The contest over climate change that...