GlobalWarming & ClimateChange News Desk – In short: A delegation from the Cocos (Keeling) Islands has been denied the opportunity to attend COP31 after their application was not selected by the federal government. A contingent of federal ministers, including the prime minister, has wrapped up pre-COP talks in Tuvalu: By Kimberley Putland for ABC Pilbara on […]
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GlobalWarming & ClimateChange News Desk – At the UN General Assembly last week, a raft of countries pledged €211m (£181m) to a new ocean monitoring system that aims to be the “world’s leading provider of ocean intelligence”. Spotlight: Carbon Brief unpacks how a new EU initiative could support global efforts in weather forecasting, climate prediction and coastal […]
GlobalWarming & ClimateChange News Desk – In the coming months, the world will get a glimpse of life on an even hotter planet. By now, you’ve seen the headlines, and there’s more of them every day: It’s “jaw-dropping.” It’s poised to make global warming worse. California has just declared a statewide state of emergency. This year’s El […]
GlobalWarming & ClimateChange News Desk – With temperatures once again exceeding 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels with August 2026 being the joint hottest month on record worldwide, tied with July 2023, as reported in the latest Climate Bulletin by Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)1. The month also saw the average sea surface temperature (SST) over the […]
Ace News Desk – In short: Dragon Search SA analysed 1,540 citizen science reports. It documented 1,524 dead weedy sea dragons and about 159 leafy sea dragons: By Malcolm Sutton of 891 ABC Adelaide on Topic:Algal Blooms Published: Thurs Sept.17: 2026 at 7:46am What’s next? Researchers are looking into ways to boost the species’ breeding rate. […]
GlobalWarming & ClimateChange News Desk – Fear “the Blob”: Relentless Marine Heat Waves Threaten to Upend Ocean Life: Mother Jones & Jim Robbins provided this story that was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Fueled by climate change and a rising El Niño, they could bring severe damage onshore […]
