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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Turns out INPEX has "drastically under-reported toxic emissions — including the carcinogen benzene — from its Ichthys LNG plant on Darwin Harbour" Environment Centre NT: "NT EPA's regulation of Inpex & Santos's toxic air pollution under the current licences has been alarmingly slipshod..."
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EPA recommends stricter pollution rules for Santos and Inpex
The Northern Territory Environment Protection Authority recommends sweeping changes to the licences of Darwin's two major gas processing companies — Santos and Inpex — following a review triggered by ...
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Lol, those new nature laws and a nature-positive agenda are going SO well. "Murray Watt, has given the green light for the bulldozing of nearly 3,000 hectares of tropical savanna in the Northern Territory without an assessment under Australia’s nature laws." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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NT environmentalists ‘gobsmacked’ at federal green light to bulldoze nearly 3,000 hectares of tropical savanna
Daly River region is home to threatened species such as the ghost bat, Gouldian finch, pig-nosed turtle and red goshawk
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Nature under fire in Australia’s tropical savannas search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3... in @landscapeaustralia.com. By Brett Murphy, John Woinarski and me. The tropical savannas of Northern Australia are truly amazing and dearly loved by many. They need far greater protection.
Cover image of article about tropical savannas, depicting savanna habitat.
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Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... A brilliant investigation by @lisacox.bsky.social
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The consulting firm allegedly offering private deals and collecting signatures to smooth way for Empire Energy gas sales
Exclusive: Leaked documents claim Good Advice promised private deals, gathered signatures and hired land council members to smooth way for Northern Territory gas sales
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 27/05/2025
Professor Benjamin Smith, a rock art expert, spoke to Guardian about a crucial report on the pollution affecting Murujuga: “The spin around it has been wrong,” he says. “If we allow what is happening to continue we’re going to very quickly lose the rock art in Murujuga.”
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‘The spin has been wrong’: rock art expert raises concerns over critical report ahead of Woodside decision | Clear Air
Environment minister Murray Watt is due to make a decision on whether to extend the controversial North West Shelf development in coming days
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Kirsty Howey @kirstyhowey.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Last week I was honoured to be part of a truly historic event. Clans of the Roper River convened to form a new governing entity for this magnificent waterway, under threat from fracking and industrial agriculture. You can read the full declaration here: territoryrivers.org.au/our-rivers/r...
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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
What’s missing in this article (as usual) are questions to those fuelling these ecological disasters. South Australia home to #ClimateCriminals Santos sanctioned and supported by our governments with our taxes. Get political ABC - your job to ask why. #Climate www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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'This could be the beginning of the end': Toxic algal bloom a sign of a changing climate
A mysterious, brown foam appeared on a beach an hour south of Adelaide. It was just the beginning of a toxic algal bloom that has now grown to thousands of square kilometres in size, killing precious ...
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 19/05/2025
"When I went to Murujuga, what shocked me was the way that the gas and petrochemical plants loom over the rock." "It's unbelievable that we allowed this." @stephenlongaus.bsky.social The Government must say NO to the North West Shelf expansion, and protect Murujuga! #auspol #savemurujuga
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Mike DiGirolamo @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I need people to understand that the animals genetically engineered by Colossal are not dire wolves. They have not performed 'de-extinction,' and it's misinformation to claim otherwise. It's incredibly worrying and damaging to conservation because things like this were bound to happen:
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Trump team cites wolf ‘de-extinction’ as it seeks to cut endangered species list
The interior secretary hailed a biotech company’s claim to have brought back the dire wolf, while the administration and GOP push to roll back species protections.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/04/2025
This is a nice primer by @jasonhickel.bsky.social about what degrowth means Recessions are not degrowth: "We have different words for recession and degrowth because they are different things" blogs.law.columbia.edu/utopia1313/f...
Degrowth vs recession
Another common question about degrowth has to do with recessions. Indeed, when the COVID-19
recession hit, some detractors of degrowth pointed to it as an example of why degrowth would be a
disaster. For the most part, this is not a good-faith argument but rather an intentional attempt to
mislead, for it is impossible to make this mistake with even a cursory reading of the actual literature
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on degrowth. In fact, degrowth is in every way the opposite of a recession. We have different words
for them because they are different things. Here are six key differences worth noting:
(1) Degrowth is a planned, coherent policy to reduce ecological impact, reduce inequality, and
improve well-being. Recessions are not planned, and do not target any of these outcomes.
They are not intended to reduce ecological impact (even though this might in some cases be
an unintended outcome), and they are certainly not intended to reduce inequality and improve
well-being – indeed, they do the opposite.
(2) Degrowth has a discriminating approach to reducing economic activity. It seeks to scale down
ecologically destructive and socially less necessary production (i.e. the production of SUVs,
arms, beef, private transportation, advertising and planned obsolescence), while expanding
socially important sectors like healthcare, education, care and conviviality. Recessions, by contrast, do not discriminate so wisely. Indeed, they quite often destroy socially important sectors
while empowering socially less necessary sectors. In the present COVID crisis, for instance,
schools, recreational facilities and public transportation are negatively affected, while Amazon
is expanding and stocks are rallying.
(3) Degrowth introduces policies to prevent unemployment, and indeed even to improve employment, such as by shortening the working week, introducing a job guarantee with a living wage,
and rolling out retraining programmes to shift people out of sunset sectors. …
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Beau Austin @beauja.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
"Day by day, species by species, landscape by landscape, the world in which humanity arose is being deleted. Eventually, what remains will be unfit for the survival of either humans or large animals." johnmenadue.com/post/2025/03...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Butterflies are vanishing from the face of the Earth because of us.
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Butterflies in the U.S. are disappearing at a ‘catastrophic’ rate
The number of butterflies in the contiguous United States declined by 22 percent this century, a collapse with potentially dire implications.
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