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Rising sea levels on Kirabati

Protecting the nationality of Pacific Islanders as climate change hits

17 May 2022

If the impacts of climate change drive people from their homes, what happens to their relationship with their home country?

the aftermath of a severe storm damaging beachfront property

Extreme storms could help protect beaches from sea level rise: study

13 May 2022

Deep sand movements stirred up by intense storms may offset some of the impacts of coastal erosion caused by sea level rise.

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Australia could rapidly shift to clean transport – if we had a strategy. So we put this plan together

11 May 2022

We’re lagging behind on the shift to electric vehicles and clean transport. Here’s what we need to do.

UNSW Kensington campus

UNSW announced as home for NSW’s decarbonisation hub

07 May 2022

The University will play a vital role in helping the state government achieve its goal of reaching net zero emissions by 2050 . 

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Australia's next government must tackle our collapsing ecosystems and extinction crisis

05 May 2022

We don’t have to passively sit back and watch Australia’s species and ecosystems die. Here are five concrete steps the next government should take.

wompoo fruit-dove

Rainforest birds in decline in black summer bushfire aftermath

28 Apr 2022

Australian rainforests and bird communities remain under threat following the catastrophic 2019-2020 bushfire season, new UNSW Sydney research shows.

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We must halve our energy use to avoid climate catastrophe: new modelling

28 Apr 2022

New research shows that a transition to renewable energy alone is not fast enough to keep global temperatures below 2050 target levels.

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The fight for sustainable renewables

26 Apr 2022

Our race for renewables has a dark side, with some of the most important clean energy technologies, such as lithium-ion batteries, bringing unexpected and damaging consequences for human rights and the environment. Although the goals are different, mining for ingredients of lithium-ion batteries

Pauline Treble and Katie Coleborn in Yonderup Cave

Plato's Cave: Stalagmites reveal Australia's pre-colonial bushfire history

14 Apr 2022

A stalagmite in Western Australia has revealed regular, low-intensity fires before European arrival and infrequent, high-intensity fires afterwards.

An info-graphic showing planet Earth among smaller spheres displaying strategies of mitigating carbon emissions

We can halve emissions by 2030 but the time to act is now: IPCC

05 Apr 2022

Incremental change is not enough if we want to limit temperature rises to 1.5°C, says the IPCC’s Working Group III, which includes UNSW sustainability expert Tommy Wiedmann.

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