Could urbanization make it harder for some animals to adapt to the climate crisis? A study published in the journal PLOS ONE last year found that the populations of Western tiger snakes (Notechis scutatus occidentalis) that were the most cut off from others due to urbanization in and around Perth, Australia, had reduced genetic diversity, […]
In another unexpected outcome of the climate crisis, wildfire smoke may be putting the recovery of the ozone layer at risk. A new study from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) chemists published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week found that the devastating Australian wildfires of 2019 and 2020 contributed to […]
In another example of how the climate crisis is impacting Australian wildlife, the animal emblem of its capital territory will be listed as a threatened species. Australia’s Environment Minister Sussan Ley emailed Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Environment Minister Rebecca Vassarotti to tell her that the gang-gang cockatoo should be reclassified as “endangered” according to the […]
After record-high temperatures for the last four months of 2021, the Great Barrier Reef is at risk of another mass bleaching event. Experts are shocked and concerned by the unprecedented levels of heat stress on the corals. From September through December 14, 2021, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) noted more heat stress over the […]
In Australia, today’s top hits may surprise you. Just one week after its release, an album featuring 40 years’ worth of bird calls has taken the No. 5 spot on the music charts, beating out Abba, Mariah Carey, and Michael Bublé. Songs of Disappearance features calls from 53 threatened Australian bird species, which were recorded […]
Researchers at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia are seeing climate change irreversibly damage ancient rock art before their very eyes. In just a matter of decades, rock art that has lasted thousands of years is being lost to the impacts of a warming world. In a symposium titled, Archaeology, History, Indigenous and Heritage responses to […]
Australia’s Daintree Rainforest — a World Heritage Site and one of the oldest rainforests in the world — is being returned to Indigenous ownership. The iconic forest is one of four national parks that the state government of Queensland, Australia agreed to return to the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people in a formal ceremony on Wednesday […]
By Jake Johnson An intense lobbying campaign by the pro-fossil fuel Australian government succeeded Friday in keeping the Great Barrier Reef off a list of World Heritage Sites considered “in danger,” despite experts’ warnings that the biodiverse ecosystem is increasingly imperiled by the global climate emergency. The 21-nation World Heritage Committee — organized by the […]
Some birds have mastered living in the scorching, dry environment of a desert. But even desert-adapted birds can’t handle extreme temperatures like those seen during heat waves. A heat wave is said to occur when unusually high temperatures prevail for several days in a region. During one heat wave that lasted eight days, all of […]
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