November 2, 2025 10:22 pm
Published by Iain Strachan
Carefully choosing the location of wind farms could help to balance electricity supply and demand during hot and cold days in southeast Australia, but more research is needed to better understand the complex relationship between weather, wind and energy. Together with hydroelectricity and solar, wind power is becoming an important source of renewable energy as Australia continues the transition to net zero. One area chosen for offshore wind farm development is the Bass Strait, along the coast of Gippsland in... Read More
September 29, 2025 1:32 am
Published by Iain Strachan
21st Century Weather Deputy Director Negin Nazarian has received the 2025 Global Environmental Change Early Career Award from the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The AGU is the world’s largest Earth and Space science association. It celebrates individuals and teams through its annual honours and recognition program for accomplishments in research, education, science communication and outreach. AGU’s annual meetings bring together more than 25,000 researchers, practitioners, students, and policymakers from around the world. The Global Environmental Change Early Career Award recognises... Read More
July 7, 2025 3:39 am
Published by Iain Strachan
Governments and businesses around the world are working toward net zero carbon emissions, where the amount of greenhouse gases we release into the atmosphere is balanced out by what we remove. It’s a vital step to stop further global warming, but new research warns that reaching net zero won’t mark a swift end to climate change. While global average temperatures may stop rising after net zero, other parts of the climate system will keep changing. Oceans will continue to warm,... Read More
June 18, 2025 11:54 pm
Published by Iain Strachan
Earth’s cloud cover is rapidly shrinking and contributing to record-breaking temperatures, according to new research involving the Monash-led Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather. The research, led by the United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published in Geophysical Research Letters, analysed satellite observations to find between 1.5 and 3 per cent of the world’s storm cloud zones have been contracting each decade in the past 24 years. The trend has been linked to changing wind... Read More
June 18, 2025 4:55 am
Published by Iain Strachan
A new experimental music work, Dark Oceanography, will premiere at the Monash University Performing Arts Centres on Sunday 27 July, immersing audiences in the swirling dynamics of ocean eddies and the future impacts of climate change beneath the surface of the sea. Created by The Sound Collectors Lab in partnership with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century, the work is a collaboration between leading percussionists, composers, music technologists and climate scientists. It uses ocean... Read More
May 20, 2025 12:54 am
Published by Iain Strachan
A combination of tree cover at street level and rooftop solar panels may be the best approach to combat urban heat in a warming climate, new research has indicated. Scientists from Canada, the United States, Spain and Australia looked at how three cities with different climates – Phoenix, Toronto, and Miami – can deal with more frequent and intense heatwaves this century. The team used advanced computer models to study how well things like street-level trees, cool roofs, green roofs,... Read More
April 10, 2025 3:22 am
Published by Iain Strachan
Please join us in congratulating 21st Century Weather’s Associate Director Melissa Hart and her collaborators, who have received AU$4.2 million in Wellcome Trust grant funding to research the heat health burden on First Nations communities in under-resourced remote Australia. Led by Associate Professor Supriya Mathew of the Menzies School of Health Research, the funded project will address the lack of evidence on how heat affects First Nations people living in remote Australia. Hot weather-related health impacts remain largely unknown for... Read More
March 27, 2025 11:53 pm
Published by Iain Strachan
Imagine predicting the wind flow around you with precision – perhaps to find a refreshing breeze on a hot day or a sheltered spot when it’s chilly. Until now, such predictions would require solving complex physical models on supercomputers – far too demanding for personal devices like phones, ipads and laptops to handle. Researchers at UNSW in Australia have changed that. The team, based at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes and the ARC Centre of Excellence for... Read More
March 26, 2025 3:37 am
Published by Iain Strachan
In recent years, the world has been grappling with the growing impacts of climate change, from devastating heatwaves to floods and droughts. Behind the scenes, work has been continuing to determine how we can fairly and accurately support affected communities and countries via the mechanisms of Loss & Damage and impact attribution. A significant outcome of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)’s Conference of Parties (COP) meetings has been the creation of a new fund to support... Read More
February 26, 2025 10:29 pm
Published by Iain Strachan
In this special blog post, read about 21st Century Weather Chief Investigator Negin Nazarian’s inspiring voyage to Antarctica as part the Homeward Bound program. Why was I there? I promised Antarctica reflections and penguin photos, so here we go! First and foremost: why was I there? The answer is to take part in the most unique leadership program there is – one designed by women, for women, with sustainability and the health of our planet at its very core. This... Read More
