Australia’s science agency is cutting more than 100 jobs in its Environment Research Unit, which critics say will crush our capacity to predict climate change.

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Alice Hill is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. Priyanka Mahat is a research associate for climate change policy. Estimating the ...

Louise Devenish receives funding from the Australian Research Council. This article includes contributions from the Dark Oceanography team: Louise Devenish (Monash University), Kate Milligan ...