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| UpdatedEmployees from US government agencies establish a network of unofficial "rogue" Twitter feeds in defiance of what they see as attempts by President Donald Trump to muzzle science.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, information-and-communication, internet-culture, social-media, climate-change, united-states
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| UpdatedPauline Hanson's One Nation party has confirmed a controversial geologist will run against WA Nationals leader Brendon Grylls.
Topics: political-parties, elections, indigenous-policy, climate-change, science-and-technology, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, perth-6000, karratha-6714, port-hedland-6721, newman-6753, wa
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| UpdatedEnergy Minister Josh Frydenberg says the Government has no plans to scrap its renewable energy targets, despite internal criticism and concerns US President Donald Trump may withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement.
Topics: us-elections, climate-change, environment, world-politics, government-and-politics, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedEuropean settlement has altered Australia's environment in ways we're only now beginning to understand, and nowhere is that more clear than in WA's South West.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, environmental-management, climate-change, forestry, rainfall, drought, bunbury-6230
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President-elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the US Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, is questioned on climate change during a a contentious Senate confirmation hearing.
Topics: climate-change, world-politics, us-elections, united-states
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| UpdatedThe Climate Council warns that warmer global temperatures could have a severe impact on Queensland and lead to more storm surges and intense cyclone activity likely.
Topics: environment, climate-change, storm-disaster, weather, storm-event, oceans-and-reefs, cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, cyclone, great-barrier-reef, activism-and-lobbying, federal---state-issues, qld
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As Australia lurches from heatwave to heatwave, the message is clear: extreme heat is the new norm, so Australia needs to get "heat smart".
Topics: climate-change, urban-development-and-planning, weather, australia
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World temperatures hit a record high for the third year in a row in 2016, creeping closer to a ceiling set for global warming with extremes including unprecedented heat in India and ice melt in the Arctic, US government agencies say.
Topics: climate-change, environment, science-and-technology, earth-sciences, world-politics, government-and-politics, united-states
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to The Seasteading Institute's Ashley Blake about plans to build the world's first floating city off the coast of French Polynesia.
Topics: science-and-technology, community-and-society, climate-change, french-polynesia, pacific
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| UpdatedThe world's first floating city could be built off the waters of French Polynesia after the signing of an agreement for a pilot project.
Topics: science-and-technology, community-and-society, climate-change, pacific, french-polynesia, united-states, france
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| UpdatedFor the past five years, The Seasteading Institute in San Francisco has been researching the potential for what it describes as permanent, innovative communities, floating at sea.
Topics: science-and-technology, ecology, engineering, defence-and-national-security, community-and-society, climate-change, pacific, french-polynesia, united-states, france
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Scientists mapping a melting glacier in East Antarctica hope to build a picture of climate evolution over hundreds of thousands of years.
Topics: climate-change, research, antarctica, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedA Queensland woman is about to brave icebergs, massive swells and roaring winds in a world record sailing attempt.
Topics: sailing, environment, climate-change, community-and-society, women, albany-6330, south-africa, chile, russian-federation, antarctica, qld
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| UpdatedAs part of its bid for the 2024 Olympics, Parisian authorities plan a new four-kilometre bike lane to run along one of the city's most famous streets and will ban cars from parts of the centre.
Topics: climate-change, cycling, olympics-summer, france
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| UpdatedMelbourne's tropical weather late last year broke records for humidity and short-term rainfall, according a special state of the climate report released by the Bureau of Meteorology.
Topics: weather, climate-change, environment, melbourne-3000, vic
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Australia's ski season could shrink by up to 80 days a year by 2050 under worst-case predictions for climate change — CSIRO climate projections scientist Michael Grose speaks to the ABC about the modelling.
Topics: conservation, urban-development-and-planning, environmental-impact, environment, national-parks, climate-change, perisher-valley-2624, nsw, australia, jindabyne-2627
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Scientists are warning that a massive iceberg is about to separate from the Antarctic ice shelf.
Topics: climate-change, weather, antarctica
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| UpdatedA vast iceberg with an area of more than 5,000 square kilometres is poised to break off Antarctica and "fundamentally change the landscape of the Antarctic Peninsula", researchers say.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, climate-change, science-and-technology, antarctica
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| Updated2016 was the hottest year on record by a wide margin, with temperatures creeping close to a ceiling set by almost 200 nations for limiting global warming, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service says.
Topics: climate-change, environment, weather, intergovernmental-organisations, science-and-technology, european-union
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| UpdatedDespite warmer than average weather across South Australia, parts of the state had their wettest year on record in 2016, according to the Bureau of Meteorology's annual snapshot of the nation's climate.
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| UpdatedLast year was wetter than average overall and the fourth-warmest on record for Australia, while Sydney experienced its warmest year, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
Topics: weather, environment, climate-change, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia faces different challenges to integrating intermittent renewable energy into large-scale grids from other countries.
Topics: mining-rural, climate-change, oil-and-gas, electricity-energy-and-utilities, energy, alternative-energy, mining-industry, perth-6000
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Investors, industry and householders all facing higher electricity bills while state and federal governments bicker over renewable energy targets.
Topics: mining-rural, climate-change, federal---state-issues, federal-parliament, greenhouse-gas, electricity-energy-and-utilities, science-and-technology, alternative-energy, mining-industry, perth-6000
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| UpdatedIf you thought the climate debate has been ugly, you haven't seen anything yet. In 2017 Australia will review its climate policies, and the process is not off to a good start, UK scientist Marc Hudson writes.
Topics: climate-change, environment, electricity-energy-and-utilities, federal-government, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, federal-parliament, australia
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The rapid growth of the wing length of the ringneck, or twenty-eight parrot, could be due to climate change, Western Australian researchers believe.
Topics: birds, research, climate-change, wa