A 10-week surge in ocean temperatures off the Western Australian coast has killed off large patches of kelp forest, the “biological engine” of Australia’s southern reefs.
Antarctica has surpassed a global warming milestone, registering CO2 levels higher than any time in the past 4 million years.
A world-renowned Italian composer has played a melancholy solo piano performance on a floating platform in the Arctic Ocean to send a conservation message to world leaders.
Autumn 2016 was Australia’s hottest, beating the previous record set in 2005.
Another month, another broken temperature record. Scientists are already confident 2016 will be the hottest year ever, a record only set in 2015.