Soil carbon sequestration: how will it work?
How much carbon can we farm back into the earth?
Soil carbon sequestration seems like a win for everyone: it improves soil quality, removes CO2 from the atmosphere, a...
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What is ‘soil carbon’, and why are we hoping it will mitigate climate change?
It’s part of the federal government’s net-zero plan, but does it really live up to the hype?
A major part of the federal government’s net zero plan is soil carbon sequestration. What is soil carbon, and can it ...
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Finding climate misinformation
New AI tool helps reveal two-decade history of misinformation distributed by climate-science deni...
We learnt only last month that scientists have been abused on social media for telling the truth during the COVID pan...
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Was COP26 a victory or defeat?
Experts weigh in on the final climate summit agreement, declaring that it falls short on human ri...
The most ambitious climate pact since the Paris Agreement in 2015 has just been signed at COP26. Though it represents...
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What was it like to be an observer at COP26?
Master’s student Emily Perry travelled to Glasgow to be an observer at the global climate change ...
When I speak to Emily Perry, she’s just landed at home in the US after a week in Glasgow, where she was an observer a...
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Conversation
How do we know how old the Earth is?
Great question from a young reader.
How old is the Earth - and, as Leo (age 5, Geelong West) asks, How do scientists work out how old the Earth is? We...
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This just in: expect solar storms of unusual ferocity
Low Earth orbit is an increasingly crowded place as the next peak period of solar storms arrives....
The Australian Space Operations Centre had its inaugural big alert the weekend before last. The Sun decided to celebr...
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Feeling the heat
When you study heatwaves, you understand the urgency of a rapid reduction in the emission of gree...
I decided to look at heatwaves around the time of the Angry Summer, back in 2012–13. Heatwaves were starting to occur...
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Sun Cable streams ahead with a boost from Glasgow
The ambitious Australian project to export renewable energy to Singapore has recently passed key ...
The highly ambitious Sun Cable project is gaining momentum and passing key hurdles and milestones on the path to beco...
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Conversation
‘Try harder. Try harder’: Today, COP26 negotiators will fight to save life on Earth
The next decade will reveal if they succeeded.
By Tim Flannery, The University of Melbourne At COP26 in Glasgow, the announcements came so fast there was barely ...
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Chickpea gene collection a boon for world agriculture
Comprehensive genetic library of chickpeas gives one the world’s oldest, and most commonly grown,...
Chickpeas are about to get a whole lot better, because an international team of researchers, including Australian res...
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Aussie students excel at the XPRIZE
Three Australian student-led teams among winners of US$5M carbon removal competition.
The Musk Foundation’s XPRIZE has just announced the winners of the Carbon Removal Student Competition, and three Aust...