Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick

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Cold fronts can make bushfires worse, a startling consideration for authorities pondering the upcoming bushfire season. 

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There’s no need to sugar-coat the truth or scaremonger when talking to kids about climate change.

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released the first part of its major Sixth Assessment Report – UNSW scientists are available for comment.

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An article in the eminent US magazine Science has triggered debate over whether scientists should use climate models. Here’s what you should know about climate models ahead of today’s IPCC report.

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One cold winter doesn't negate more than a century of global warming. We need the political leadership to set the world on a safer path. Ill-informed tweets by government senators won't help.

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We know heatwaves and drought can turn bushfires into infernos, but the reasons why were poorly understood in science.

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Heatwaves have become longer, hotter and more frequent. This trend is accelerating from climate change.

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With New South Wales suffering winter bushfires and temperature records tumbling around the globe, Australian leaders in Canberra have picked a bad time to jettison climate policy in favour of political bickering.

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Summer in some parts of the world will become one long heatwave with a global temperature rise of just 2°C above pre-industrial levels, new research has found.

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One way of potentially tapping into previously unreached audiences is via cli-fi, or climate-fiction, which explores how the world may look in the aftermath of climate change, writes Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick.

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