GTAV AC:G Y10 - Environmental change and management

2019 was second or third hottest year ever recorded, with average global temperature of last 10 years up 0.39C than long-term average

Heatwaves have become longer in most of the world since 1950s – study | Climate change | The Guardian

This summer, the world’s largest coral reef system, the Great Barrier Reef, suffered the worst mass bleaching outbreak ever witnessed. Graham Readfearn looks at whether people are ready to accept the reality that at least 70% of the world’s coral reefs will soon be lost

Storm surges since Easter have left coastal communities concerned for beaches and homes

Australia's greenhouse gas emissions sank in 2019, the first annual retreat in four years, led by record inroads into the electricity sector by renewables.

The Greens asked officials to calculate the cost of shutting down the native forest timber industry immediately rather than 2030 as planned

The third large-scale coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef is under way, with regions of the centre and south more badly affected than in 2016 and 2017.

UK on course to lose a quarter of its sandy coast because of human-driven erosion

The ongoing degradation of ecosystems, the fragmenting of wildlife into smaller and smaller patches of habitat, the dominion of jobs and economic growth over environmental health, has made our ecosystems vulnerable to major upheavals such as bushfires.

Different ways of looking at the problem.

The world’s coastlines are turning to concrete, at a huge cost to wildlife and the climate. But new technologies may offer a way to shore up coasts while benefiting biodiversity.

Research has found feral cattle, horses, buffaloes and donkeys are destroying the habitats of smaller mammal species

WWF Australia says after new analysis that federal department is failing to enforce environmental laws

As the government prepares plans for economic recovery, investors and green groups alike say this is a once-only opportunity to move towards zero emissions

The Global Monitoring Laboratory conducts research on greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in clouds, aerosols, and surface radiation, and recovery of stratospheric ozone.

Researchers believe the Indian Ocean Dipole is more clearly influenced by climate change than previously thought

A group of experts has called for the ban in response to ‘climate, fire and drought’ but others say it is a ‘simplistic solution to a complex problem’

The sea along the Tasmanian east coast is a global heating hotspot. One man has watched entire sea forests disappear in his lifetime