Climate Change Risk To Our Coastal Cities

Climate Change Risk To Our Coastal Cities

Climate Change Risk To Our Coastal Cities Confronting the nation’s coastal urban cities as it approaches 2055, 30 years on, will be both higher sea levels and air and water temperatures. And 50 years from now (in 2075) sea levels will be substantially higher (and...
Torres Strait Islanders Court Case and Climate Change

Torres Strait Islanders Court Case and Climate Change

Torres Strait Islanders Court Case and Climate Change Judgment in the federal court case involving traditional owners of islands in the Torres Strait against the Australian Government  has recently been handed down. The decision by Justice Michael Wigney has attracted...
Downsizing of NOAA: Consequences For The Planet

Downsizing of NOAA: Consequences For The Planet

Downsizing of NOAA: Consequences For The Planet News out of the US on the firing of public servants by the Trump administration has consequences world-wide. Downsizing of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will potentially impact many nations...
Impacts of warming oceans

Impacts of warming oceans

Impacts of warming oceans A brilliant Wilcox cartoon appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on 12 March. She used two panels: on the left were reef tourists looking down from a boat at bleached corals; on the right was an actual sea surface temperature (SST) map of the...