US and British scientific academies have said there was a clear consensus that climate change is real and will have serious disruptive effects on the planet.

According to a new research, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sea-level rise scenarios may not provide complete information for high-risk coastal decision-making and management.

Sea levels along North America’s northeastern coast experienced a record rise from 2009 to 2010, according to a report by a team of scientists in the United States.

A researcher at the University of Adelaide is warning about the impact of climate change on native birds. Recent studies have shown that large numbers of birds are already dying during heatwaves. And the university is now taking part in an international study to look at the sorts of temperature increases different birds can tolerate and how they change their behaviour in extreme heat.

Winter floods are important natural 'disturbances' for maintaining species-rich riparian zones along northern watercourses. Movies like The Day After Tomorrow and An Inconvenient Truth exaggerated some of the big effects of a climate gone crazy but less attention is given to smaller, realistic scenarios, like a disturbance in existing winter floods.