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The Kere is a recurrent famine occurring in the south of Madagascar that emerged substantively in the 1930s. Each major event claims thousands of lives and keeps many in a cycle of impoverishment, despite the existence of various aid-based responses. This assessment presents qualitative research exploring two Kere-affected communities’ experiences of the phenomenon. Through focus

Government’s reef envoy says visiting scientists ‘have to see the good and the bad’ as widespread bleaching confirmed Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing A UN mission under way in Queensland to see if the Great Barrier Reef should be put

Coral reefs across the world have demonstrated an incredible resilience to disturbance, having persisted for over 200 million years withstanding local, short-term shocks such as cyclones and bleaching events, as well as large-scale, long-term global changes such as sea-level fluctuations. However, there are now many persistent and growing threats to the health and productivity of

Based on our recently developed method to quantify Gunderson and Holling’s adaptive cycle, we provide a holistic analysis of a vascular plant community on the volcanic island of Surtsey between 2000 and 2018. We identify one complete adaptive cycle during the study period, which reflects the system’s transition from a classic pioneer to a grassland

Open letter calls on politicians to make climate a primary focus in election year and ‘address this clear and present danger’ Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing The climate crisis is the greatest threat to the future and security of Australians and the country is unprepared for its increasingly harsh impacts,

Climate action rules announced by SEC chair Gary Gensler expected to face opposition from Republicans and industry groups The US’s top financial watchdog proposed on Monday that publicly traded companies report information on their greenhouse-gas emissions and even those of their suppliers and consumers in one of the Biden administration’s most sweeping environmental actions to

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” events could signal faster and abrupt climate breakdown. Temperatures in Antarctica reached record levels at the weekend, an astonishing