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In this new world of bushfire terror, I question whether I want to have kids

15 Jan 2020

Having fewer children is one of the most effective ways an individual can mitigate climate change.

Most read science stories of 2019

18 Dec 2019

This year's most popular science stories took readers from melting Antarctic ice sounding the alarm on microbes and climate change, to a pest-proof fence to protect native wildlife in far western NSW, and early signs of life in ancient rocks in the Pilbara, WA.

Student takes off to Madrid for COP25

11 Dec 2019

UNSW Co-op Program scholar Ben Munro attends the 2019 United Nations Framework Convention.

Six human rights issues that defined 2019

11 Dec 2019

From mass climate change movements to cultural genocide of Uighurs in China, here are some of the headline human rights moments that captured Australia’s attention.

Climate change talk OK during disaster events

06 Dec 2019

A global consortium of leading climate change research universities is coming together as a new survey reveals the attitudes of Australians to climate change.

New carbon dividend proposal gets community support

02 Dec 2019

A proposal to tax carbon emitters, redistribute the funds to taxpayers and reduce emissions gets the thumbs up.

A message to the Climate Change Conference: cutting emissions is not enough

29 Nov 2019

Countries need to acknowledge that they are responsible for the emissions caused by their exports of fossil fuels.

Climate change will make fire storms more likely in southeastern Australia

21 Nov 2019

Extreme fire risk will overlap with weather patterns to create fire tornadoes more often under climate change.

New $8m radiocarbon dating facility to generate urgently-needed data on climate change

19 Nov 2019

UNSW researchers will use ancient wood archives to study the effects of climate change over the last 50,000 years.

An underwater quest to restore our endangered seagrass meadows

18 Nov 2019

A beautiful seagrass is endangered in parts of NSW, but a team of “underwater gardeners” led by a UNSW marine ecologist is working to stem its decline.

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