Climate change and its future effects have led to a lot recent discussion,  but it’s actually something the Australian Climate Change Science Program has been investigating for 20 years. (5:33)

The Southern Ocean is changing, and evidence shows that around the Antarctic, the Southern Ocean is warming at a faster rate than the global ocean average. (4:46)

A paper detailing how climate change will affect those living in Sydney in the year 2060 was tabled at the 2009 Greenhouse conference in Perth, outlining a very different tomorrow for Sydneysiders. (4:57)

Climate change will cause some of Australia’s potential weeds to move south by up to 1000km, according to a report by scientists at CSIRO’s Climate Adaptation Flagship.

‘Table talk’ may be the best way to help individuals reduce carbon emissions and develop sustainable lifestyles, according to CSIRO social scientist, Anne-Maree Dowd.

Scientists believe more bushfires generated by rising temperatures and lower rainfall will lead to lower air quality over a greater number of days in Australia, particularly in the south-east.

A combination of climate-change-induced temperature rises and increasing levels of air pollution could exacerbate the harmful effects of heat stress experienced by people living in Sydney, according to new research by CSIRO scientist, Dr Martin Cope.

The weather conditions that lead to Victoria’s past two major bushfires may be linked to lower than normal sea-surface temperatures in the eastern Indian Ocean, according to researchers from CSIRO’s Wealth from Oceans National Research Flagship.

Two new greenhouse gases are accumulating in the atmosphere, according to an international research team led by scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the US and CSIRO scientist, Dr Paul Fraser, from the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research.

Australia’s biennial climate science conference – GREENHOUSE 2009 – opens next week in Perth with a review of the latest Australian and international science contributing towards an understanding of climate change.