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WA Wheat Yields Unchanged Despite 100+ Year Rainfall Decline

Despite a rainfall decrease in Western Australia’s wheatbelt between 1900 and 2016 which has shifted wheat yield potential southwest by an average of 70km, actual wheat yields have remained unchanged.

12 Mar 2020

Natural Contaminant Threat to Drinking Water from Groundwater

Climate change and urbanisation are set to threaten groundwater drinking water quality, new research from UNSW Sydney shows.

10 Mar 2020

Carbon Emissions are Falling as Electricity Producers are Moving Away From Coal

Recent figures have reported a 2% drop in emissions which is been attributed to significant cuts in the use of coal-fired power plants to generate electricity in the US and the EU.

9 Mar 2020

New Model Uses AI to Make Predictions on Climate Change Impact

Global warming alone is sufficient to make Chicago produce 12% more electricity for each person each summer month, by 2030.

6 Mar 2020

Guinea-Bissau and IFAD Partner to Build Farmers’ Resilience to Climate Change

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) today announced support for a new project in Guinea-Bissau to reduce poverty, increase productivity and incomes, improve food and nutrition security and build the resilience of at least 287,000 small-scale farmers in the face of climate change.

5 Mar 2020

Tasmania’s Ancient Rainforest Faces Grim Future with Warming Climate

New research at Portland State University reports that the ancient rainforest region of Tasmania faces a gloomy future due to the warming climate and the way people utilize the land.

4 Mar 2020

Are the World’s Beaches Disappearing as a Result of Climate Change?

A new study has revealed that the world is facing losing almost half of its beaches by 2100 as a result of climate change.

4 Mar 2020

Why the Wettest February on Record is Causing Climate Concerns to Grow

A total of three extreme rainfall events hit the UK in the second month of the year, causing experts and the general population to feel raising concern over the increasingly severe impacts of climate change.

3 Mar 2020

Policy Strategies to Mitigate Climate Change by Reducing Global Methane Emissions

In the climate debate, the methane gas merits considerable attention as it contributes approximately half of the human-induced global warming in the short-term.

2 Mar 2020

Experts Outline Steps to Achieve Global Carbon Neutrality in the Future

How can the world cut its greenhouse gas emissions in time to avert the most catastrophic impacts of global climate change? It won't be easy, but there are reasons to be optimistic that the problems can still be solved if the right kind of significant actions are taken within the next few years, according to panelists at the latest MIT symposium on climate change.

28 Feb 2020