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11 May 2022, The Guardian: ‘Devastating’: 91% of reefs surveyed on Great Barrier Reef affected by coral bleaching in 2022. Coral bleaching affected 91% of reefs surveyed along the Great Barrier Reef this year, according to a report by government scientists that … Continue reading →

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21 March 2022, The Guardian: Antarctic areas reach 40C above normal at same time as north pole regions hit 30C above usual levels. Startling heatwaves at both of Earth’s poles are causing alarm among climate scientists, who have warned the “unprecedented” … Continue reading →

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24 February 2022, The Conversation: Climate change is warping our fresh water cycle – and much faster than we thought. Fresh water cycles from ocean to air to clouds to rivers and back to the oceans. This constant shuttling can give … Continue reading →

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13 January 2021, ABC: As the Arctic melts, a regime shift is taking place. The Arctic is changing faster than any environment on Earth. The old order is being swept away, leaving scientists to ask: What’s coming in its place? Where there was once ice, there is now open ocean. Milky swirls of plankton, hundreds of kilometres in length, now bloom where polar bears once roamed. It is a spectacular sight looking down from space. The Arctic is exploding with new life — but not as we know it. Microscopic phytoplankton is the foundation of the marine food chain. It has increased in abundance in the Arctic by more than 50 per cent since the 1990s. Last August, plankton numbers in the seas north of Siberia increased by 600 per cent. Read more here