Climate Change

Climate change and Pacific Island food systems

Climate change in Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) is projected to have significant impacts, including rising sea-levels, more violent tropical cyclones and droughts. Fish stocks in the tropical regions of the Pacific are expected to be directly affected by any changes that may occur in the ocean’s ecosystem.

Publication Date: 
07/06/2016
Johann Bell, Mary Taylor, Moses Amos, Neil Andrew
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
Tags:
Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, Fisheries, Farmers, Pacific Islands, Aquaculture
Climate Change

New Zealand aiding Pacific nations to be resilient to climate change

WELLINGTON, June 7 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand will help Pacific island peoples adapt their homelands to climate change and rising sea-levels as many are unwilling to leave their homes, Climate Change

Publication Date: 
07/06/2016
Shanghai Daily (China)
Tags:
Climate Change, New Zealand, Climate Mitigation, Sea Level Rise, Islands, Kiribati, Tuvalu Island, Vanuatu
Climate Change

Arctic sea ice ‘to disappear for first time in 100,000 years’

The Arctic is on track to be free of sea ice this year or next for the first time in more than 100,000 years, a leading scientist has claimed.

Publication Date: 
06/06/2016
Ian Johnston
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Arctic, Global Warming, Glacial Melt, Sea Level Rise, Floods, United Kingdom (UK), Climate Impacts
Climate Change

Queensland bankrolls council projects that mitigate effects of rising sea levels

The Queensland Labor government will bankroll projects by coastal councils to mitigate the effects of rising sea levels, less than two years after its Liberal National predecessor banned mentions o

Publication Date: 
02/06/2016
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Sea Level Rise, Australia
Climate Change

Four-decade record of pervasive grounding line retreat along the Bellingshausen margin of West Antarctica

Changes to the grounding line, where grounded ice starts to float, can be used as a remotely-sensed measure of ice-sheet susceptibility to ocean-forced dynamic thinning. Constraining this susceptibility is vital for predicting Antarctica's contribution to rising sea levels. We use Landsat imagery to monitor grounding line movement over four decades along the Bellingshausen margin of West Antarctica, an area little monitored despite potential for future ice losses.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2016
Frazer D.W. Christie, Robert G. Bingham, Noel Gourmelen & et al
Geophysical Research Letters
1-27
Tags:
Antarctica, Climate Change, Oceans and Seas, Global Warming, Climate Science, Glacial Melt, Sea Level Rise
Climate Change

Climate change and security in South Asia: cooperating for peace

A GMACCC report warns that a recent drought in India which has affected over 330 million people – causing displacement and threatening farms –is just the first hint of how climate change could destabilise the South Asian region, unless steps are taken to address the threat posed by a warming, resource-scarce world.

Publication Date: 
31/05/2016
Tariq Waseem Ghazi, A.N.M. Muniruzzaman, A.K. Singh
GMACCC
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Extreme Weather Events, Sea Level Rise, Glaciers, Black Carbon, Infectious Diseases, South Asia, Natural Disasters, Displacement, Food Security, Environment, Conflicts
Climate Change

Deep, cold Arctic currents like conveyor belt mitigating warming’s effect on Antarctica, sea level surge

PARIS – Deep, cold ocean currents from the North Atlantic blunt the effect of global warming on Antarctica and slow the rise of sea levels, according to a study published Monday.

Publication Date: 
31/05/2016
Japan Times (Japan)
Tags:
Climate Change, Global Warming, Antarctica, Climate Mitigation, Sea Level Rise, Scientists
Climate Change

Homeowners kept in dark about climate change risk to houses, says report

The risk that houses in some areas of Australia are likely to become uninsurable, dilapidated and uninhabitable due to climate change is kept hidden from those building and buying property along Au

Publication Date: 
30/05/2016
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, Australia, Buildings, Climate Impacts, Sea Level Rise
Climate Change

Zimbabwe: Climate Change Eroding Value of Heritage Sites

WORLD Heritage Sites like the iconic Great Zimbabwe Monument and the splendid Victoria Falls are coming under severe pressure from climate change, threatening to erode the sites' outstanding univer

Publication Date: 
30/05/2016
All Africa
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Impacts, UNESCO, Zimbabwe, Tourism, Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, Africa
Climate Change

There goes the neighbourhood: climate change, Australian housing and the financial sector

This report looks at the risk that is often unrecognised and under-explained to people who own or are buying or building property along Australia's coasts (flooding, storm surge, coastal inundation, erosion etc.) and in bushfire zones.

Publication Date: 
30/05/2016
The Climate Institute
Tags:
Climate Change, Housing, Finance, Coastal Erosion, Australia, Natural Disasters, Sea Level Rise, Climate Impacts, Insurance, Private Sector

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