The cities of Darwin and Cairns are both located close to this northern equatorial region. Australia Climate Zones: Tropical Savannah Just south of the equatorial region are much larger regions of tropical rainforest and tropical savanna climate zones. These zones are similar to the equatorial zone...
AUSTRALIACLIMATE changeRising sea levels, heat waves, bush fires, cyclones, droughts and floods present a growing threat to Australian settlements. Policy responses to these climate change driven concerns are polarized. The two main political parties at the federal level display starkly different ...
School Strike 4 Climate protest rally in Australia. . Image © Holli via Shutterstock Starting on November 6, world leaders are gathering in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, for COP27. The name stands for the 27th conference of parties, an almost annual event started under the 1992 UN framework con...
SYDNEY/MELBOURNE (Reuters) - More than 1,000 people demonstrated on Saturday in Australia's biggest cities of Sydney and Melbourne to protest against the government's climate policies and the strategies it offered at a U.N. climate summit in Glasgow. Sydney's first legal protes...
Over half of the population or 57.17% live in Australia's five largest cities alone: Sydney:4,293,105 Melbourne:3,684,461 Brisbane:1,820,375 Perth:1,507,949 Adelaide:1,138,833 Canberra, the capital of Australia has a population of 328,441; Hobart, the capital of Tasmania has 205,510...
Compound dry-hot extreme (CDHE) events pose greater risks to the environment, society, and human health than their univariate counterparts. Here, we project decadal-length changes in the frequency and duration of CDHE events for major U.S. cities during
And here is Professor Stephen Williams discussing the recent mass death of Australia’s flying fox bats in which 30,000 —a third of their remaining population— died in a single extreme heat wave: “A lot of tropical species are much closer to the edge of the tolerances, so they very mu...
CANBERRA, March 1 (Xinhua) -- Australia is facing more catastrophic weather events as a result of global warming, which will cause death, injury, financial and emotional stress globally, a report has warned. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Monday published its latest repo...
While cities may believe they have little influence over the grid mix, in fact, they often represent a major portion of any local electric utility's customers, potentially giving them significant leverage to shape the emis...
we could see about a 2 to 4 degree Celsius increase on average in many different parts of Asia and that includes parts of Northwest in India, Pakistan, parts of China as well as Australia. What that means is that we could see that 2 to 4 degree Celsius increase on average, but on ex...