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Displaying 339 of about 339 resultsA new report by the Deep South Challenge: Changing with our Climate, explores what we need to know now, in order to adapt to the drought conditions likely under future climate change.
Drought already impacts a wide range of activities in Aotearoa, including urban water, primary production and electricity generation. It also has significant cultural imp…
By Ian Rutherfurd, Associate Professor in Geography, University of Melbourne
On the eve of the recent National Drought Summit, prime minister Scott Morrison and deputy prime minister Michael McCormack visited Mulloon Creek near Canberra, shown recently on the ABC’s Australian Story. They were there to see a creek that was still flowing,…
An international initiative to improve early warning systems against extreme weather and support climate change adaptation is gaining momentum to protect more people in more places. Financing has been extended to cover the Caribbean and West African regions.
The Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) initiative, launched in 2015, has been opera…
The new global norm of extreme weather-related disasters and climate change requires a new type of disaster-resilience modelling
By Greg Foliente, Rory Nathan, Yiqun Chen, and Abbas Rajabifard
Extreme events are on the rise globally.
Indonesia was recently hit by a devastating earthquake and tsunami. Hurricane Florence and…
By Nanthi Bolan, Professor of Environmental Science, University of Newcastle
Australia has never been a stranger to droughts, but climate change is now super-charging them.
Besides taking a toll on human health, droughts also bake the earth. This means the ground holds less water, creating a vicious cycle of dryness.
Our research has investigate…
By Skie Tobin, Climatologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Catherine Ganter, Senior Climatologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Robyn Duell, Senior Climatologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
The chances of an El Niño developing late in 2018 have increased and this week the Bureau moved to El Niño ALERT. This…
By Olivia Warrick
The Climate Centre is working with Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) to boost the capacity of the Solomon Islands Meteorological Services (SIMS) to monitor and communicate on drought through an “early-action rainfall watch”, including seasonal outlooks.
This…
A delegation of three young people from UNICEF Australia’s NSW Youth Summit on Living with Drought are meeting with federal government Ministers and other decision-makers in Canberra this week to discuss their ideas for policy solutions and to push for long-term thinking, rather than ad hoc and reactive funding measures.
“These young people from region…
A long-term warming trend from the burning of coal, oil and gas is supercharging extreme weather events, putting Australian lives, our economy and our environment at risk.
The Climate Council’s new report, ‘Dangerous Summer: Escalating Bushfire, Heat and Drought Risk‘, has found this summer is shaping up as a terrible trifecta of heatwaves, drought and…