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The 2025 global surface temperature verdict is in: it was one of the world’s three warmest years since 1850, the other two being its immediate predecessors. When the rapidly-warming ocean is factored in, our climate is in utterly new territory. … Continue reading →

One frantic year into what is shaping as a momentous four-year term (if that’s all it is), the world is now wide awake to what it’s like having Donald Trump make play with the most powerful economic and military force … Continue reading →

Derwent Lees would have had no memories of the family weekender on Hobart’s Eastern Shore where he was born in 1884, or the wide estuary from which his parents took his name. But long after his lonely death in London, … Continue reading →