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.
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.
Until now, India's smog problem has curbed extreme temperatures. But that could be about to change, write Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Andrew King and Geert Jan van Oldenborgh.
Is climate change to blame for the recent record temperatures? Maybe, but it’s not a simple case of cause and effect, writes Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick.
The promises and pitfalls of the imminent Paris climate summit were debated before a capacity audience by experts from climate science, political journalism, agriculture and business, as part of the UNSW Grand Challenges initiative.
This year’s El Niño, combined with the Indian Ocean Diople, could be a whopper, writes Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, but we still don’t know exactly what weather the complex influences might produce.
