Climate Change

As Albanese and Dutton fought it out, these were the questions they couldn’t answer Prime Minister Anthony Albanese couldn’t say when power prices would become cheaper. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said it wasn’t for him to say if climate change was making weather events worse. Neither could say how they…

When it comes to reforestation, planting a diversity of tree species could have a plethora of positive effects on forest health and resilience, climate mitigation and biodiversity. That’s based on research from the world’s largest tree-planting experiment, in China, and the world’s longest-running tropical forest planting experiment...Read More

For Peter Hasegawa, it all started with the heat dome. The labor organizer remembers the 2021 extreme heat event that killed more than 400 people in the state of Washington. That disaster woke up residents and union members to how deadly climate change can be. Although Seattle had passed climate…

At least 69 people were killed this week in unusually intense thunderstorms across eastern India's Bihar state and in neighbouring Nepal, officials said Saturday (April 12, 2025). While flash floods and lightning kill thousands of people each year, scientists warn that rising global temperatures are unleashing a cascade of extreme…

Pollen allergy season is getting longer and more intense as the climate changes, creating more misery for allergy sufferers. But it’s not the only type of allergy threat getting worse with warming. There are other allergens, like mold spores, whose spread coincides with higher temperatures and weather disruption. But one…

Why Trump Axed a Bedrock U.S. Climate Program The dismemberment of the U.S. Global Change Research Program was outlined in Project 2025 as a way to elevate the “benefits” of climate change when fighting regulations in court By Scott Waldman & E&E News U.S. President Donald Trump listens to a…

Scouring for sea slugs by combing through long seagrass blades is not easy, according to Richelle Tanner, a marine ecologist at Chapman University in Orange, California. She has to blindly but carefully run her hands along the entire plant, pressing lightly, to pick out the species she studies, Taylor’s sea…

Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, has reaffirmed government’s commitment to operationalizing the Climate Change Fund (CCF). Edun made this disclosure with the Director-General of the Nigeria Climate Change Council (NCCC), Nkiruka Madueke, on Monday in Abuja to make  efforts to align climate finance with…

Bad news for allergy sufferers: climate change may make your seasonal allergies last even longer. Scientists developed a model accounting for how different warming scenarios could affect pollen production and emissions. What they found was, by the end of the century, warmer temperatures could kick off the spring allergy season…

Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen has announced this morning a new policy by the Australian Labor Party those targets Home Battery Storage for Australians. The new policy would reduce the cost of a ‘typical’ installed battery by 30%. Home Storage Batteries allow you to collect energy from…