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Climate scenarios and models play a major role in shaping international policy.
BIODIVERSITY LOSS

Climate models failing to reflect inequality and Global South realities, study warns

Scientists say dominant climate and biodiversity models rely too heavily on existing economic systems and overlook inequality, Global South perspectives and Indigenous knowledge,…

  • Sheree Bega
4 min read
A chain-forming diatom, a common type of phytoplankton, found in the New York Bight area. (NOAA)
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT

Climate models underestimate global phytoplankton decline, study warns

A CSIR study analysing 26 years of satellite data reveals how ocean warming is significantly reducing ocean productivity

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
The climate models that have built on the winners’ research form a crucial part of the evidence on which leaders at the upcoming United Nations Climate Conference — COP26 — will base their decisions.
CARBON DIOXIDE

Trio shares Nobel prize for groundbreaking climate science over 60 years

Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi have been announced as the joint winners

  • Sheree Bega
2 min read