Climate Change In Australia Archives - Protect Our Winters Australia

Climate Kids: Snow and Ice

Dr Linden Ashcroft (Senior Lecturer: Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences) and Dr Lily O'Neill (Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures) team up on The University Of Melbourne's Climate Kids series to look at Snow and Ice. This episode answers the questions of Climate Kids living in Australia's snowy regions and takes a look at the challenges facing these places. More... READ MORE

“Our Changing Snowscapes” Report Released

ANU x POW have just released the Our Changing Snowscapes: Climate Change Impacts and Recommendations for the Australian Alps’ Report The new report reviews the current state of climate change impacts on the Australian Alps, presents new modelling of climate change impacts on Australia's ski resorts and provides recommendations for a better path forward. For the first time the SkiSim2... READ MORE

The Aussie Snow Gum: An Icon In Trouble

Any visitor to the Australian Alps would be no stranger to the snow gum. Its rainbow bark and twisted trunk are synonymous with the high country itself. “They are the iconic tree of the mountains”, says Cam Walker of Mountain Journal fame and Friends of the Earth.
Tragically, Cam says, because of climate change, the trees are “facing the prospect of ecological collapse”

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Protect Our Winters Australia acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land upon which we live, work and play. We pay respects to the Elders, past, present and future, across the many Nations. Their ancestral ties to country have never been extinguished, and sovereignty never ceded.

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