An estimated 35,000 walruses gathered on a beach in Alaska as summer sea ice fell to its sixth lowest in the satellite record; and caused flights to be rerouted to reduce the risk of planes causing a “catastrophic stampede”, writes the UK's The Guardian newspaper. Read the full article here.
Corals along the WA coast have struggled in unusually warm sea temperatures during 2011-13. The University of Western Australia study concluded corals experienced reduced growth rates despite looking healthy, writes Kerry Faulkner on ScienceNetwork WA. Read the full story here.
To illustrate global warming's possible effects on local weather, 13 nations from around the world created future weather reports in the lead-up to the UN Climate Summit, writes YAHOO News. Read the full story about the video forecasts for a day in 2050, predicting how a warming planet may lead to droughts, heavy storms and landslides the world over.
Record temperatures in Australia in 2013 were almost certainly caused by man-made climate change, five separate studies have found, writes The Sydney Morning Herald. Read the full story here.
Throughout the months of May and June each year, the otherwise rarely sighted slender sunfish (Ranzania laevis) have a tendency to strand themselves along Western Australia’s south coast but is this phenomena becoming more frequent?
Check out this article in the Malacological Society of Australia newsletter about the recent sightings of argonauts (paper nautilus) in southeastern Tasmania in Autumn 2014.
Some parts of the news media incorrectly claim that the climate is no longer warming, but is actually cooling. They get to this conclusion by everything from cherry-picking the data, all the way up to telling big fat fibs, writes Dr Karl Kruszelnicki on ABC Science. Read the full story here.
THOUSANDS of bluebottles have washed up on a Gold Coast beach... sparking warnings for families enjoying the first week of the school holidays, writes the Courier Mail. Read the full article here.
Tiny marine algae can evolve fast enough to cope with climate change in a sign that some ocean life may be more resilient than thought to rising temperatures and acidification, a study showed - writes the Sydney Morning Herald. Read the full story here.
The Washington Post writes: Something odd is happening in Northern Pacific waters: They're heating up. In fact, it hasn't been this warm in parts of the Gulf of Alaska for this long since researchers began tracking surface water temperatures in the 1980s... Read the full article here.
