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Tag Archives: Climate Change
It’s getting hot in here… So what does this mean for the ocean?
One day, in the not-so-distant future, the movie Finding Nemo may be seen as an incredibly inaccurate portrayal of life under the sea. And it’s not because of the talking fish. With climate change heating up our oceans and creating … Continue reading
Posted in environment and conservation, SCOM8014
Tagged Climate Change, Ocean Acidification, Ocean Warming
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Bottoms up! Melting the dark side of Antarctic ice shelves
Antarctic ice shelves are nature’s buttresses against sea level rise that would devastate our coastal civilisations. New research provides a clearer picture of how climate change will speed up melting of ice shelves from underneath. Antarctica’s land area is almost … Continue reading
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Tagged Antarctica, Climate Change, glacier, ice shelf, ocean, planetary science, research, sea level rise
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Eating the world healthy again
We should all know by now that eating fruit and vegetables is good for us. Yet a survey done by CSIRO shows that most Australians aren’t getting anywhere near this. If Australia’s Go for 2&5 campaign isn’t working, hopefully research … Continue reading
Posted in environment and conservation, health and medical, SCOM8014
Tagged Climate Change, healthy, vegan, Vegetarian
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Climate Change, 365 Sunny Days a Year
Before you see the words climate change, heave a heavy sigh and scroll onward ask yourself, aside from all the political hype and doomsday prophesies you’ve heard, what do you actually know about global warming?Well, the world’s definitely getting warmer … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change, Cyclones
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The Anthropocene: The Inconvenient Truth of Man’s Dominion over Nature
Global change is happening in more ways than you think, especially in climate change science. Humanity has made enormous progress since our hunter-gatherer times. Recently, this ‘progress’ has been procuring particular academic interest in environmental science. The developing phenomenon known … Continue reading
Posted in environment and conservation, SCOM1001
Tagged 'Where Do You Think the Environment Is?', Anthropocene, Climate Change
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