Newsletter Credit: New Africa/ BigStock Photo ID: 428653640 What happens to the human body in 49C heat? Australians are finding out Doctors warn there are biological limits to temperatures we can survive, and exposure to extreme heat can provoke a heart attack.
Impacts After a year of rain, towns at the end of Australia’s giant river system await the slow, inevitable deluge The earth is saturated, and the water has nowhere to go, and so it continues its inexorable path through the Murray-Darling Basin.
Impacts Modelling shows hotter days and less rain for South Australia to 2050 and beyond New climate modelling shows South Australia is in for hotter days more often, declining rain but with heavier falls, and more severe fire conditions.
Solutions Single-use plastic plates and bowls and cotton buds next to be banned in South Australia A wide range of single-use plastic products will be banned in South Australia over the next three years, the state government says.
Impacts Calls for more water buybacks to sustain Murray Darling Basin as government continues to fall short of target Hopes that environment-saving water will be delivered through the Murray-Darling Basin plan are evaporating rapidly.
Politics www.theguardian.com Australia was the first casualty of the big blackout lie blaming wind power – the US could be next Deeper efforts to fight misinformation, including from traditional media outlets, must be made. And climate resilience must be baked into every plan to transition.
Causes www.theguardian.com Temperatures top 47C (116F) amid ongoing Australian fire crisis - as it happened BoM data says Tuesday’s 40.9C was the hottest average maximum across the whole country ever recorded. This blog is now closed
