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Our old friend Senior Lecturer in Climate Science Andrew King on why global warming is producing so much cold weather.

"... It is difficult to predict whether changes in cyclone formation and behaviour will pose a risk to Australia ..."

Farmed salmon are "three times more likely to be partially deaf" than wild salmon, according to the University of Melbourne's Pursuit publication. Roughly every second farmed salmon that humans consume has lost a great deal...

(and other nonsense from Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology, the University of Melbourne and The Conversation). Dr. Bill Johnston[1] Main points. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology and climate scientists at the University...

With the signs of climate change becoming harder and harder to ignore every day, we tend to think of it as a 21st century problem. However, in a new study, a team of researchers has revealed when and where the first real...

A consortium from Australia's CSIRO and Melbourne and Monash Universities just announced that its printable solar cells are on the verge of commercialization...

Redwood Trees photo from Shutterstock A team of researchers from the University of Melbourne has discovered that old trees are better at storing carbon dioxide than young trees...

The "Mushroom Community Campus," as it is known, makes use of earth-air tunnels to reduce the need for air-conditioning, along with rainwater harvesting to slash water consumption...

From the University of Melbourne, where being angry about “weather is not climate” isn’t just a science, its a way of life: Human influences through global warming are likely to have played a role in Australia’s...

An incredible new printer at the University of Melbourne has allowed researchers to print solar cells up to the size of an A3 sheet of paper. Developed in collaboration between the Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium...

Photo via Shutterstock It’s perhaps a bit surprising that Australia—with its sunny self-presentation—is not only the world’s largest exporter of coal, but at 28 billion tonnes of CO2 per year creates the highest...

Photo via Shutterstock It’s perhaps a little surprising that Australia—with its often healthy, beach-filled, sunny self-presentation—is not only the world’s largest exporter of coal, but at 28 billion tonnes...

Your home may be filled with energy- and water- efficient appliances, but a new study says that no matter how much you may be saving, the harm is already done...

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This is probably the most peculiar method we have heard of to make commercial shipping more efficient, but scientists from the University of Melbourne in Australia and the King Abdullah University in Saudi Arabia believe...