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Women are turning the tide on climate policy worldwide, and may launch a new era for Australia

Women are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change and yet they are also leading the way in climate policy and politics. Despite the major parties being virtually silent on the issues of gender equity and climate change throughout the 2022 election both issues proved to be turning points ...

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Local efforts have cut plastic waste on Australia’s beaches by almost 30% in 6 years

The waste management efforts of local government councils and community clean up programs dramatically help to reduce plastic waste along the Australian coastline.

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Shifting seasons: using Indigenous knowledge and western science to help address climate change impacts

Traditional Owners in Australia are the creators of millennia worth of traditional ecological knowledge, this can be used as climate change disrupts the non-indigenous weather calendar.

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Meet the world’s largest plant: a single seagrass clone stretching 180 km in Western Australia’s Shark Bay

To find out how many different individual plants are growing in a seagrass meadow, you have to test their DNA. We did this for meadows of ribbon weed seagrass called Posidonia australis in the shallow sun-drenched waters of the Shark Bay World Heritage Area, in Western Australia and the result ...

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I am a climate scientist – and this is my plea to our newly elected politicians

I am a climate scientist who has spent the last two decades studying how our climate is changing and sharing our increasingly urgent and frightening findings with the world. This is my plea to our newly elected politicians.

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Why vote independent?

The Australian Federal election campaign is in full swing, ahead of us voting at the polls on 21st May. Amongst all of the debates, political ads, posters and pamphlets, you may have noticed that this year there are A LOT of Independent candidates - i.e. candidates that are not associated ...

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The election showed Australia’s huge appetite for stronger climate action. What levers can the new government pull?

The next three years will be challenging economically and politically. But the transformation wrought by the election has opened up the possibility of a similar transformation of climate policy. With bold action, a bright future awaits.

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Beyond electric cars: how electrifying trucks, buses, tractors and scooters will help tackle climate change

When you think of an electric vehicle, chances are you’ll picture a car. But there’s a quiet revolution going on in transport. It turns out electrification can work wonders for almost all of our transport options, from electric bikes to motorbikes to buses to freight trains and even to tractors ...

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Toughness has limits: over 1,100 species live in Antarctica – but they’re at risk from human activity

It’s hard to survive in bitterly cold Antarctica. But the ice continent is home to more than 1,100 species who have adapted to life on land and in its lakes.

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