The difference half a degree will make for Australia

By Peter Hannam
Updated May 16 2017 - 1:43pm, first published 1:31pm

Australia will endure more heatwaves, droughts and coral bleaching at 1.5 degrees of warming but the extremes will be considerably less than if global temperatures increase by 2 degrees, new research shows.

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