Tag: ecosystem collapse
This is Australia’s most important report on the environment’s deteriorating health. We present its grim findings
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Climate change is exacerbating pressures on every Australian ecosystem and Australia now has more foreign plant species than native, according to...
‘Existential threat to our survival’: see the 19 Australian ecosystems already collapsing
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In 1992, 1,700 scientists warned that human beings and the natural world were “on a collision course”. Seventeen years later, scientists described planetary boundaries within which humans...
Entire hillsides of trees turned brown this summer. Is it the start of ecosystem collapse?
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The drought in eastern Australia was a significant driver of this season’s unprecedented bushfires. But it also caused another, less well known environmental calamity...
222 scientists say cascading crises are the biggest threat to the well-being of future generations
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The bushfires raging across Australia this summer have sharpened the focus on how climate change affects human health. This season bushfires have already...