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Climate change is a pressing issue, but its impacts are not felt equally by everyone. A new report seeks to address this by arguing for the importance of climate justice in the tourism industry.
Climate change is making some parts of Australia unliveable or uninsurable. We need a national conversation about the planned relocation. A proposed National Relocation Authority can lead the way.
Finding ways to support climate solutions can help you bolster against debilitating and paralysing climate anxiety.
This was no ‘natural disaster’. There are lessons to learn from areas that survived the fires.
This powerful new eco drama suggests “cli-fi” could play a crucial role in climate communication.
The film asks how individuals and communities can tackle disaster while embracing an ethos of mutual aid that sidesteps yearning for nationalist policies that lead to even more harm.
Soil contains three times more carbon than the atmosphere. As climate change has become a global threat, agriculture’s ability to store more or less carbon is under close scrutiny.
Canadians should demand greater accountability from their governments to reduce the need for last-minute humanitarian efforts in the face of climate-related disasters in their communities.
A new study of Florida’s fiscal vulnerability to climate change finds that flooding directly threatens many local tax bases.
Even ‘climate havens’ face a riskier future, and infrastructure often isn’t built to handle climate change. But there are steps cities can take to prepare.
Across the world, elderly people tend to be the most vulnerable to climate-related disasters.
A new report lays out steps communities can take to help their residents survive heat waves as the risk of dangerous temperatures rises.
Refugee settlements are particularly affected by high temperatures and extreme rainfall, even more so than the rest of their host countries.
In the years since the Supreme Court rejected Kivalina’s appeal on May 20, 2013, the community’s search and rescue team has faced increasing climate disasters: ‘We just can’t adapt this fast.’
If the loss and damage fund becomes operational, in what areas would the additional financing be useful in Indonesia? Here are some suggestions.
Australian cities remain woefully unprepared for the more extreme weather we are already seeing with climate change. But some cities overseas stand out for having developed readymade solutions.
Both when disaster strikes and when climate change has more everyday impacts, community radio stations play a leading role in helping locals understand and adapt to the challenges they face.
Millions of people around the world suffered through deadly flooding and long-lasting heat waves in 2022. A climate scientist explains the rising risks.
To keep up with climate-related disasters, we need transformational solutions. These range from ‘sponge cities’ and floating houses to putting out bushfires minutes after they start.
Top contributors
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Head, Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Canada
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Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton
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Assistant Professor of Marine and Environmental Affairs and American Indian Studies, University of Washington
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Senior Researcher, Migration and Development, Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), United Nations University
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Researcher, Aging In the Right Place | M.A. student, Gerontology, Simon Fraser University
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Research professor, RMIT University
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor in Journalism, Media and Communication, Griffith University
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PhD Candidate, Humanities, York University, Canada
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Associate professor, Gerontology Department, Simon Fraser University
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Data Scientist at the Center for Social Solutions, University of Michigan
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Professor of International Relations, Boston University
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Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL
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Associate Director (International) - Melbourne Centre for Cities, The University of Melbourne
