Climate News

The Conversation

Disabled people face greater climate change risks – and they can also help NZ adapt

August 5, 2026

Matched: climate

• disability
• climate change
• new zealand
• climate adaptation
• inclusion
• resilience

The Conversation

Climate change may be making us lonelier: How heat waves and extreme weather disrupt social connections everyone relies on

August 5, 2026

Matched: climate

• climate change
• loneliness
• extreme weather
• mental health
• social isolation
• heat waves

The Conversation

Butterflies are on the move as the planet warms: new research

August 5, 2026

• climate change
• butterflies
• wildlife migration
• conservation
• biodiversity
• habitat

The Conversation

East Africa’s iconic snow peaks will soon disappear for good – what will be lost when they melt

August 4, 2026

• climate change
• glaciers
• east africa
• global warming
• indian ocean
• biodiversity

The Conversation

Multiple threats endanger the world’s rarest great ape, a new study on the Tapanuli orangutan reveals

August 4, 2026

Matched: climate

• tapanuli orangutan
• endangered species
• deforestation
• climate change
• wildlife conservation
• great apes

The Conversation

‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question

July 31, 2026

Matched: climate

• climate change
• heatwave
• extreme weather
• fossil fuels
• climate attribution
• global warming

The Conversation

Falls in whale sightings, rare seabirds appearing – is something unusual happening in the Southern Ocean?

July 30, 2026

• southern ocean
• marine heatwaves
• whale sightings
• seabirds
• ocean ecology
• climate change

The Conversation

Flash droughts pull ‘alarming’ amounts of moisture from the landscape and intensify wildfires: new research

July 29, 2026

• flash drought
• wildfire risk
• drought research
• soil moisture
• climate change
• fire weather

The Conversation

‘The fire has such power’: why the wildfires gripping France and Spain are off the charts

July 29, 2026

• wildfires
• france
• spain
• climate change
• firefighting
• extreme weather

The Conversation

Donald Trump blames Canada for wildfire smoke — but global warming is loading the wildfire dice

July 28, 2026

• wildfires
• climate change
• donald trump
• canada
• air quality
• misinformation

The Conversation

Wildfires: why media coverage doesn’t always make the climate connection

July 28, 2026

Matched: climate

• wildfires
• climate change
• media coverage
• journalism
• environmental reporting
• attribution science

The Conversation

Impact of climate change may be equivalent to 3.3 million years of transformations in tropical vegetation

July 28, 2026

Matched: climate

• climate change
• tropical vegetation
• biodiversity
• deforestation
• ecosystem disruption
• environmental science

The Conversation

What two centuries of Perth storm records tell us about future climate risk

July 28, 2026

Matched: climate

• perth
• climate history
• storm records
• australia
• climate change
• fossil fuels

The Conversation

It’s getting hotter in classrooms and on playgrounds – schools aren’t ready to handle extreme temperatures

July 27, 2026

• climate change
• education
• extreme heat
• school safety
• public health
• infrastructure