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Urgent international cooperation is required to provide small island states and territories with the information they need to respond effectively to the existential threat of climate change. Many parts of the world most at risk of sea level rise and other damaging impacts of climate change are among the least prepared to meet these challenges,… Read More

21st Century Weather has joined forces with Climate Extremes to host our first winter school. Not surprisingly, we chose to talk about the weather. About 60 students and ECRs from all over Australia converged on Monash University for a week to hone their skills in key concepts of how weather and climate work and interact…. Read More

21st Century Weather congratulates our Chief Investigator Nerilie Abram on being elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.  Nerilie is a Professor of Climate Science in the Research School of Earth Sciences at The Australian National University in Canberra. She is a Deputy Director of 21st Century Weather, and also a Chief Investigator… Read More

Call for proposals open now! About this project The climate crisis is a global issue strongly influencing the evolution of art music: shaping new directions in creative practice and informing conceptual frameworks. Music has an important role to play in climate crisis discourse, by offering a sonic pathway to bridge the gap between data, understanding,… Read More

The relationship between anthropogenic climate change and global weather patterns led to the hottest year on record in 2023. Human-induced global heating combined with other important drivers and feedbacks – including persistent atmospheric blocking, droughts, marine heatwaves and El Niño – caused unprecedented heatwaves in many parts of the planet.  Writing in Nature Reviews Earth… Read More