By Michaela McNeillRead moreThe Great Barrier Reef is in the news again after it was hit by another massive coral bleaching event.The bleaching has been blamed on rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.While it was already known that the reef was under threat from climate change, scientists have now released the results of an…
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Why are we still debating climate change?
Posted by Andrew Marr on Friday, March 06, 2020 15:59:49 If there’s one thing we have learned from this election cycle, it’s that people still don’t understand what climate change really means.In a poll last year, only 40 per cent of Australians believed that climate change was a serious problem.It’s the same across the political…
Which of the two candidates has the best environmental record?
Hillary Clinton, who has been a proponent of reducing emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, has the strongest environmental record.She has pushed for a national energy plan that would include the development of coal-fired power plants, renewable energy sources like wind and solar, and an expansion of clean-energy research and development.She also has called…
What the Cubas climate is like – In pictures
When it rains, the temperature can drop as low as 20C.This means the world’s least-populated island, which has a population of just about one million people, could become the hottest place in the world.The coldest temperature recorded was -21C in the city of Quito in 2009.It can drop to -10C in winter, with temperatures often…
