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Mapped: how the world is losing its forests to wildfires #Climate
Mapped: how the world is losing its forests to wildfires
Wildfires now destroy twice as much tree cover per year as two decades ago – a crisis fuelled by climate change
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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Our world is facing an increasingly dangerous shortage of freshwater, most of which comes from below-ground aquifers that take centuries to replenish. Loss of groundwater has become so extreme that it’s now contributing to sea level rise even more than the planet’s melting ice sheets and glaciers.
Jan 10: A discovery in dino vomit, and more… | CBC Radio
Groundwater loss is causing sea level rise, doubling down on doubt can help you doubt less, spotting a primordial black hole in a strange galaxy and looking for viral hiding spots to find a cure for t...
www.cbc.ca
January 10, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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Terrible to see. On tonights news I heard the doc and 3 joey's were ok in the dam but everything else gone 🔥. A terrible loss. Read the story, please help if you can and share. Dr Robyn is in Victoria, current experiencing some terrible bushfire. 💔🫂

www.gofundme.com/f/tarcombe-a...
Donate to Tarcombe animal shelter and and Dr Robyn coy, organized by Ellie Stubbs
Tarcombe Wildlife Shelter and Dr Robyn Coy Have Lost Everything Yesterday… Ellie Stubbs needs your support for Tarcombe animal shelter and and Dr Robyn coy
www.gofundme.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:38 AM
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Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
January 6, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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For an act of resistance to the tyranny of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter—undistracted notes on the search for meaning, free, ad-free, AI-free, fully human since 2006: themarginalian.org/newsletter
December 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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This is utterly outrageous by the Group of Eight unis, and deeply insulting and undermining for environment and climate experts trying their hardest to achieve a more sustainable future for society. Shameful stuff.
1/ No surpirise that Business Council of Australia's leading the charge for further regressive changes to Watt's already regressive EPBC package

But 🤯 that the Group of 8 Unis (ANU, Monash, UAdelaide, UMelb, UNSW, USyd, UQ, UWA) have signed the 'Letter from the Alliance of 26 industry Groups' 🤬🤬🤬
Alliance of Industry Groups: Letter on EPBC - Business Council of Australia
www.bca.com.au
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Blogging today on the inanity of politics and the banality of ecocide.

Here, perhaps for the first time ever, we have a piece of writing that includes Sun Tzu, Hannah Arendt, and Nelson Muntz.

I think it says something useful. And I think it is slightly hopeful, at the end.
Wedgie politics & the banality of ecocide
On the adolescent inanity of politics at the end of the world as we know it There's something so banal about the way the latest "attempt" to "reform" Australia's "environment laws" is unfolding. [Is...
in-between-days.ghost.io
October 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Yes, I'm angry, and deeply saddened. I'm so tired of the enablers that are actively contributing to our dying planet. Pieces like @zoedaniel.bsky.social's do tremendous harm to genuine environmental law reform and are deeply upsetting to the many scientists and experts on the front lines.
November 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Trump’s latest target? The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of America’s last truly wild places. His administration just announced plans to open it up for oil and gas drilling, turning 1.56 million acres of pristine wilderness (home to polar bears, caribou, and migratory birds)
October 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Despite decades of conservation promises, Queensland remains a globally significant hotspot for destroying forests and native vegetation.

This @theconversation.com story finds Queensland has lost at least 21% of its original woody vegetation since colonisation.

theconversation.com/queenslands-...
Queensland’s forests are still being bulldozed — and new parks alone won’t save them
Queensland’s conservation ledger is in the red. Despite some new national parks, bulldozers are still clearing forests and vegetation across the state.
theconversation.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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On the critical minerals deal that includes a clause to kill environment protections in Aus - here's my @crikey.com.au piece from a few weeks back 🙏🏽

www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/18/l...
The abundance agenda brainworm has infected Labor's climate change reform
The Productivity Commission wants us to focus on the 'costs' of climate action, neutralising an urgent safety issue into a bland optimisation and efficiency project, and in doing so, ridding it of any...
www.crikey.com.au
October 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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"The Albanese Government is investing more than $600 million to better protect threatened plants and animals."

For context the the Albanese Government gave $12billion in spending & tax concessions to fossil fuels in the year 2024-2025. #auspol #climate
australiainstitute.org.au/report/fossi...
October 15, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Some of our ocean’s most iconic species are vanishing — whale sharks, oceanic whitetip sharks, manta and devil rays.

Join us in calling for action. Sign the petition today: only.one/act/cites-2025

#CITESCoP20 #SaveTheMantas
October 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws
Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...
www.abc.net.au
October 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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"campfire lit during a total fire ban sparked a large bushfire on Moreton Island"
-if investigations confirm the cause, it's a great example of why many rules exist.
Not to suffocate freedoms, but to prevent harm; here-habitat destruction, animal loss, pollution

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Campfire during ban blamed for Moreton Island fire
A "careless" campfire lit during a fire ban sparked a rapidly moving blaze that has now burnt hundreds of hectares on Moreton Island, according to authorities.
www.abc.net.au
October 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Climate Change:

It's real.

It's us.

It's serious - and already dangerous.

But there are solutions.

The science is clear: the faster we cut emissions, the less suffering we will cause, and the better off we'll all be.
November 19, 2024 at 2:36 AM
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Who needs forests when we could turn everything into cornfields? 🤷🏻‍♂️
Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: ‘You can almost hear the chainsaws’
Critics say move to axe Bill Clinton’s ‘roadless rule’ that protected key old-growth forests will be devastating to environment
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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There’s some pretty alarming stuff happening in NSW right now with big changes to the planning laws being rushed through Parliament.

The proposed amendments create major corruption risks and should be closely reviewed by ICAC.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW’s fast-track planning laws could allow mines to be approved without environmental assessment
Environmental assessments could go out the window for mining projects, windfarms and other developments, green groups say
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Australia is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. It’s time to lift living standards for all www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Australia is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. It’s time to lift living standards for all | Cassandra Goldie
We cannot improve productivity without closing tax loopholes, recognising overseas qualifications and tackling ableism, racism and ageism
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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The latest ABS data shows property investors are continuing to squeeze first-home buyers out of the market.
August 15, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Months after salmon giant Huon Aquaculture lost its RSPCA endorsement, many retailers are still promoting the salmon with the branding of the animal welfare group.

The body charged with removing this endorsement is Huon Aquaculture. http://satpa.pe/uT00apo
Salmon still being sold with invalid RSPCA tick
Despite having its accreditation withdrawn in March, Huon salmon is still advertised in some major outlets as RSPCA-endorsed – in potential breach of consumer law.
satpa.pe
July 7, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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In a spectacular act of state-sanctioned greenwashing, the Albo gov awards Bonaparte CCS JointVenture, Major Project Status for ‘new clean energy & resource projects’

Anchor customer for Bonaparte CCS project is Inpex’s Ichthys LNG facility—in other words it's for enabling fossil fuel production
July 3, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Australian taxpayers will now help Jarrod Bleijie bulldoze Barrambin Victoria Park to build David Crisafulli's Colosseum. The Olympics is no longer about sport but has become a massive Joh Bjelke-Petersen style property grab. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Queensland and federal governments strike Olympics funding deal
A new deal has been struck between the Queensland and federal governments to fund venues — including a major stadium — for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
www.abc.net.au
July 3, 2025 at 6:36 AM