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How climate change is killing us: Paddy Manning

Talking Australia

How climate change is killing us: Paddy Manning

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Author Paddy Manning has worked as a journalist for more than 15 years and in his new book “Body count: How climate change is killing us” he is investigating the true scale of climate change related deaths. From heat stroke victims to devastating mental health issues related with climate anxiety, Manning shows that climate deaths didn’t start in 2019 during one of the worst fire seasons Australia has ever experienced. For his book Manning has spoken to survivors and the families of victims to make us realise that it is time to act. This Episode of Talking Australia is hosted by Angela Heathcote (Digital Producer at Australian Geographic) and produced by Ben Kanthak (www.beachshackpodcasts.com). You can also follow us on Instagram @australiangeographic

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The iconic Komodo dragon may be in danger. Here’s why

Scientists have, for the first time, predicted how Komodo dragons, the world’s largest lizard, will be impacted by climate change.

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Scientists need your help to complete Australia’s longest daily weather record

Climate scientists are calling on the public to help transcribe important weather observations from 170 years ago.

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Unlike other reptiles, the Cunningham’s skink risks its own life to defend its young

Scientists have captured rare footage of a mother skink fighting a deadly brown snake to protect her babies.

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The end of snow

Could a warming climate be putting Australia’s magnificent alpine landscapes at risk?

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‘They’re in trouble’: photograph reveals struggle of Australia’s flying foxes

Doug Gimesy’s photograph of a ‘clump’ of flying foxes on a tree demonstrates how dire their situation is under climate change.

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Global swarming: Are jellyfish taking over our oceans?

Australian scientists uncover the truth as they step up research into these intriguing creatures.

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Newly discovered weather records back to 1838 reveal snow is falling less often

Scientists have pieced together weather records back to 1838, creating the longest analysis of daily temperature extremes.

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Australia’s rivers will be unrecognisable by 2070

Future climate change is likely to reduce stream flow and water availability in drylands around the world.

How Tim Jarvis went from polar explorer to passionate environmentalist

Talking Australia

How Tim Jarvis went from polar explorer to passionate environmentalist

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Tim Jarvis has endured a great deal of physical privation as a world-leading polar adventurer. In order to authentically recreate two epic journeys by Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton, from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Tim willingly stripped himself of all modern equipment and undertook these expeditions with the same clothes and gear that his predecessors used in the early 1900s. On this episode of Talking Australia Tim talks about his adventures and how he since then has become a climate change advocate, public speaker and as of late started the “Forktree Project”, a non-profit demonstration site in South Australia to show how large scale rewilding of degraded pastoral land is possible. This Episode of Talking Australia is hosted by Chrissie Goldrick (Editor-in-chief at Australian Geographic) and produced by Ben Kanthak (www.beachshackpodcasts.com) You can also follow us on Instagram @australiangeographic

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