ENVIRONMENT
Environment topics: Climate change
Feeding a hot, hungry world - agriculture in the face of climate change
Geoengineering: Can it help our planet keep its cool?
Impact of global warming on biodiversity
Acid test for the seas
Excuse me! The problem with methane gas
Science for sustainable reefs
Flying beyond our means – air travel and the environment
Making our mark – ecological footprints
Capturing the greenhouse gang
Stormwater – helping to tackle Australia's water crisis
Making every drop count
Predicting natural events
Getting into hot water – global warming and rising sea levels
Warmer and sicker? Global warming and human health
Coral bleaching – will global warming kill the reefs?
Carbon currency – the credits and debits of carbon emissions trading
El Nino – riding the climate roller coaster
The Southern Ocean and global climate
Enhanced greenhouse effect – a hot international issue
Feeding a hot, hungry world - agriculture in the face of climate change
How will we feed the world's population as the planet gets warmer? Climate change is predicted to cause higher temperatures, altered rainfall patterns, and an increase in extreme weather events, all of which will have a significant impact upon global agricultural systems.
Geoengineering: Can it help our planet keep its cool?
Geoengineering involves applying technology on a massive scale to change the Earth's environment. It might help to cool the Earth, but at what cost?
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Impact of global warming on biodiversity
Global warming on the scale predicted by scientists could have a major consequence for Australia's biodiversity. Are we doing anything about it?
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Acid test for the seas
The basic facts on acean acidification.
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Excuse me! The problem with methane gas
When you ask people about greenhouse gases, chances are they’ll focus on carbon dioxide. But there’s another, more potent gas contributing to global warming. Meet methane, the forgotten greenhouse gas.
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Science for sustainable reefs
Pollution, overfishing, coastal development and climate change are putting the world’s coral reefs under increasing pressure. With millions of people relying on them, how can science help make our reefs sustainable?
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The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies |
Flying beyond our means – air travel and the environment
With aviation’s emissions growing faster than any other transport sector our impacts on the environment are heading sky high.
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Making our mark – ecological footprints
Ecological footprints are being used to measure our impact on Earth and the results aren't good.
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Capturing the greenhouse gang
The search is on for ways to capture greenhouse gases and store them out of harm's way.
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Stormwater – helping to tackle Australia's water crisis
With reduced water supplies and a growing population, should Australians be letting stormwater go down the drain?
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Australian Research Council Linkage Learned Academies Special Project Grant |
Making every drop count
Would you drink a glass of treated effluent? That question is part of a heated debate about water recycling, as people try to find solutions to the lack of water supplies brought about by climate change and a growing population.
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Predicting natural events
The study of thresholds and pattern dynamics may be a key to unlocking our understanding of catastrophic climate change and other types ofcomplex systems.
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The Sir Mark Oliphant International Frontiers of Science and Technology Conference Series |
Getting into hot water – global warming and rising sea levels
The 20th century saw the greatest increase in temperature of any century during the last thousand years, and the last decade was the warmest since records began. As the temperature rises, so does the sea level – with profound consequences for us all.
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The Australian Greenhouse Office is the lead Commonwealth agency on greenhouse matters |
Warmer and sicker? Global warming and human health
Continued warming of the planet could have significant implications for human health. Coping with extreme heatwaves will be just one of our concerns.
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The Australian Greenhouse Office is the lead Commonwealth agency on greenhouse matters |
Coral bleaching – will global warming kill the reefs?
Coral reefs are sensitive to environmental change. Recently, the frequency and distribution of coral bleaching have increased, and in 2002 the Great Barrier Reef experienced its worst case of coral bleaching on record.
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Australian Institute of Marine Science |
Carbon currency – the credits and debits of carbon emissions trading
The Kyoto Protocol is the first step towards stabilising global emissions of carbon dioxide. But what is carbon emissions trading and will it limit the enhanced greenhouse effect?
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The Australian Greenhouse Office is the lead Commonwealth agency on greenhouse matters |
El Niño – riding the climate roller coaster
It seems that El Niño and La Niña are here to stay. What are they and how do they affect Australia's climate?
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Cooperative Research Centre for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology |  |
the Australian Government's National Innovation Awareness Strategy |
The Southern Ocean and global climate
Research shows that the Southern Ocean is crucial to the world's climate system.
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Cooperative Research Centre for the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Environment | |
the Australian Government's National Innovation Awareness Strategy |
Enhanced greenhouse effect – a hot international issue
The Kyoto Protocol put the enhanced greenhouse effect in the spotlight. But what is the enhanced greenhouse effect and what are we doing about it?.
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