16 Oct 2020

As a climate scientist watching the most destructive bushfires in Australian history unfold, Joelle Gergis feels like she is witnessing the collapse of the...

6 Oct 2020

From Tasmania’s majestic forest giants to the eucalypt on your nature strip, trees in Australia are many, varied and sometimes huge. But how many are there...

10 Sep 2020

Citizen scientists from around the world are being asked to help complete Australia's longest daily weather record.

8 Sep 2020

Climate History Australia has launched a new citizen science project to create the longest daily weather record for Australia.

2 Sep 2020

When the clock ticked over to 2020, Australia was in the grip of a brutal drought and unprecedented bushfires. But in the months since, while many of us were...

14 Aug 2020

You might associate the Australian Alps with skiing, Snowy Hydro-Electric or the Man from Snowy River. But few know of the region’s history of exploitation,...

30 Jul 2020

A new project is open to Honours and Masters students to apply a new food systems model study the link between food production, food processing, and...

21 Jul 2020

As climate models predict even worse outcomes for the planet, some scientists believe the way to change what is happening is for people to “feel” the emotion...

24 Jun 2020

The pandemic seems to have given the planet a bit of respite. But doubts remain whether it will be a lasting change

4 Jun 2020

New research examines historical records exploring low-elevation snowfall events to create Australia’s longest analysis of daily temperature extremes and their...

19 Feb 2020

60 Minutes CBS (USA) spoke to Dr Joelle Gergis from the Fenner School of Environment & Society about the link between the recent summer bushfires and...

12 Feb 2020

A new paper in Nature Sustainability looks at the concept of planetary boundaries, and assesses what are critical levels of interference in that Earth system...