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June 20 is Show Your Stripes Day. This is an annual global awareness campaign dedicated to sparking conversations about climate change. On this day, people around the world can share ‘warming stripes’ that show how their local climate has changed over time. The climate stripes project – a climate science communication initiative by British climatologist Professor Ed Hawkins -allows people to pinpoint locations across the world, and create local temperature change visualisations.  This climate stripes graphic for Hobart shows annual […]

At the 2026 conference of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS), under the theme “Southern Skies, Southern Oceans: Science on the Edge”, researchers, practitioners and policymakers came together to focus on the shared challenge of turning climate science into decisions that matter in the real world.  For the Climate Futures team, the conference marked a step forward in that […]

We are excited to announce that thanks to the support of the Tasmanian Government, the Climate Futures Research Group is leading a major new initiative to deliver high-resolution (4 km) climate projections for Tasmania.   This $1.8 million project, aligned with the National Partnership for Climate Projections (NPCP) and Tasmania’s Climate Change Action Plan, will provide detailed insights into future climate conditions under different climate scenarios. The project will generate state-of-the-art, high-resolution climate projections […]

Climate Futures has published a newsletter to update on the major Natural Hazards Atlas for Tasmania project. This newsletter shares insights from the project’s initial year.

Dr Annabel Bowden, Dr Krishneel Sharma and Dr Ben Weeding flew the flag for Climate Futures at the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) 2025 conference in Cairns. All three team members promoted the work we do at Climate Futures, and presented well received talks that have led to new collaborations and research opportunities. The three early career […]

Climate Futures team members Dr Kathleen Beyer and Dr Ben Weeding have been working on a project funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research to build capacity in Indonesia on climate modelling for biosecurity risk. The project aims to understand the gaps in biosecurity risks in Southeast Asia due to climate change, providing […]