News: extreme weather

The extreme floods which devastated Spain are hitting more often. Is Ӱֱ ready for the next one?

Floods in Spain

The ’s Professor has co-authored an article in The Conversation that reveals some startling figures about the risk of extreme flooding in Ӱֱ.

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Climate change is reducing global river water quality

A review of almost 1000 studies on the effects of climate change and extreme weather events on rivers around the world has found an overall negative effect on water quality in rivers globally.

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Climate change threatens to cause ‘synchronised harvest failures’ across the globe, with implications for Ӱֱ’s foodsecurity

New research shows scientists haveto agriculture and global food production. Blind spots in climate models meant “high-impact but deeply-uncertain hazards” were ignored. But now that the threat of “synchronised harvest failures” has been revealed, we cannot ignore the prospect of global famine.

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Housing design for older South Aussies under the spotlight

Ӱֱ of Adelaide researchers will investigate the quality of housing for older South Ӱֱns to improve their wellbeing and resilience to extreme weather.

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Regenerating Ӱֱ screening and Dynamic Statement release event

Last Wednesday evening the Ӱֱ's and Environment Institute partnered to host the screening of, as part of Sustainability Week 2022.

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Grape Growers Adapting to Climate Shifts Early

A recently published articleemphasises the importance of strong cooperative approaches to managing our water resources.

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Researchers respond to the IPCC's report that human activity is undeniably heating the planet.

The world’s leading climate scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC, have warned that the prospect of limiting global warming to 1.5C will be out of reach within 12 years at current rates of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Averting disaster with UNHaRMED software

It’s an unsettling prognosis. Driven by climate change, population growth and economic development, natural hazards —such as the recent bushfires in Ӱֱ and the US, heatwaves in Europe, and floods in Japan—will in coming years become an even bigger threat.

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