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Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick receives Scientist Communicator of the Year Award
21st Century Weather’s Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick has been named the Scientist Communicator of the Year for 2025. Awarded by Australian Science Communicators (ASC), it recognises a researcher who communicates their work, or the work of their field, to audiences with clarity and excellence. In particular, the quality of the scientist’s science communication expertise is recognised by……
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From the tropics to the pole: How El Niño touches Antarctica
A team of Australian climate scientists has explored how weather patterns in the tropical Pacific Ocean can influence the chemistry of snow falling thousands of kilometres away in Antarctica. Working with an ice core drilled at Mount Brown South in East Antarctica, the researchers studied traces of sea salt preserved in layers of snow and……
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Strategic wind farms: How to balance weather resources & energy demand
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……
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The Earth is at its warmest for 125,000 years, but time remains to prevent total catastrophe
The 2025 State of the Climate Report has been released, indicating that 22 of the Earth’s 35 vital signs are being pushed to critical levels, as the planet reaches its hottest temperature in the last 125,000 years. Warming is accelerating, the report highlights, while ocean heat content, the volume of tree cover lost to fire……
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Droughts are hitting harder where Australians live, work and farm
When droughts take hold, they don’t just dry out the land, they strain food security, damage economies and affect both our physical and mental health. Australia is no stranger to these impacts, with the country frequently experiencing severe and widespread droughts. Recent decades have left Australia with lasting environmental, economic and social scars of drought: from……