As the planet continues to warm, extreme weather events such as heatwaves and heavy rainfall are becoming more frequent, intense and longer, according to global weather data.
UNSW researchers are trialling the potential of a removable rooftop weather barrier to alleviate the effect of intense heatwaves on low-income communities in urban India.
Heatwaves are Australia's deadliest type of natural disaster and more research is needed to forecast accurately their impacts on people, write Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick and Christopher J. White.
UNSW Art & Design lecturer Kate Dunn is using everyday ingredients like sugar, clay, coffee and wood pulp to create 3D printed art works from climate change data.
Did you know that you can have heatwaves in winter as well as summer? And that fruit bats in Australia literally drop out of trees in the worst of the summer heatwaves? No matter where you live in the world there are four main drivers of heatwaves.
The link between El Niño and heatwaves is complicated. But what we can say is this summer's strong El Niño conditions are likely to bring more heatwaves to much of Australia's north and east, writes Sarah Perkins.
