An industry analyst is tipping the Australian Government's climate change plan to improve the prospects of companies specialising in systems to manage energy use efficiently and to report on related compliance issues.

Volunteers and experts around the world are collaborating to solve disaster and climate Problems through Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK), with the event set to come to Melbourne next month.

Understanding how climate change could impact on the deterioration of the basic building block of much of Australia's infrastructure – concrete – is crucial to ensuring major assets such as roads, ports and buildings continue to perform up to expectations, according to a CSIRO report.

IBM has announced that the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory will use IBM's next-generation Blue Gene supercomputer to enable significant advances in areas such as designing ultra-efficient electric car batteries, understanding global climate change and exploring the evolution of the universe.

According to a first-time worldwide study conducted on the largest lakes found on Earth, NASA has concluded that these lakes have warmed steadily in surface temperature over the past 25 years.

Battery tech is starting to see some innovation; today Ford announced a new extended life battery system for the Ford Focus.

More than four out of five Australian IT departments have never seen their power bill – a stark example of how a lack of metrics has led to Australia falling behind the UK and US when it comes to greening ICT.

Australian and U.S. scientists have concluded that the winds over the Southern Ocean hold the key to how its surface waters help to transfer heat and carbon dioxide between the deeper waters and the atmosphere in the Southern Hemisphere.

Today the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO published a snapshot of the state of climate change in Australia.

A Swiss-U.S. study has found that over the last half century North American birds have become smaller by about 1.3% in mass. The fairly rapid evolution to a more compact size is concluded to be caused by climate change.