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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Half of UK adults say they spend less than three hours a week outside in nature - Most people have joyful memories of playing outside as children, and now wildlife charities are urging people to ‘rewild their inner child’ Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Half of UK adults say they spend less than three hours a week outside in nature
Most people have joyful memories of playing outside as children – and now wildlife charities are urging people to ‘rewild their inner child’
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/05/2026
Written under collapsing ceilings, typed on phones: the poetry bringing Palestine to the world
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Written under collapsing ceilings, typed on phones: the poetry bringing Palestine to the world
Two new poetry collections tackle themes of trauma, exile, resistance and love amid conflict in Gaza
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/05/2026
Listen to the stories of Gaza's women to fully grasp the horrors Israel is inflicting on us | Olfat al-Kurd
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Listen to the stories of Gaza's women to fully grasp the horrors Israel is inflicting on us | Olfat al-Kurd
I survived months of bombardment before escaping. The systematic dismantling of our home has harmed every aspect of women’s lives, says B’Tselem field researcher Olfat al-Kurd
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Why an immense marine heatwave off the US west coast has alarmed scientists What does a surge in ocean temperatures, compounded with El Niño, bode for the summer? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Why an immense marine heatwave off the US west coast has alarmed scientists
What does a surge in ocean temperatures, compounded with El Niño, bode for the summer?
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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The Fafocene is underway…
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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
A striking example that even the experts can not anymore predicted short term changes because of extreme events now shaping the cryosphere... Containers transported to the edge of the ice shelf, some days later gone due to a blizzard ... #climate #earth
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Giant iceberg with shipping containers spotted off Antarctica
Details of how the shipping containers ended up on a giant iceberg have been revealed in one of the more unusual reports tabled at the annual meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations.
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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Next climate mitigation tactic gets clear now Cut off data I celebrate ever more that the biophysical Earth system fucks them all now as we are in an extinction level event progressing fast One more temperature jump and this system goes into overdrive Extremes intensify too fast #climate #Earth
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Critical dependence of global ocean heat monitoring on the ocean observing system - Nature Climate Change
International collaboration has facilitated a global ocean observing system, providing data to measure ocean heat content at a resolution that enables the tracking of climate change. This study looks ...
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eco mindful @ecomindful.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
And… in Australia: Pauline and Gina’s bestie is fuelling their true blue, flag waving, Aussie battler PHON voters’ “cost-of-living crises”. All in service of more resource extraction and super profits for fossil fuel and mining industries… and their “ultra high-net-worth” billionaires. #auspol
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 23/05/2026
Swedish Defense Minister Pål Jonson said today that Ukraine should have a path to join NATO, arguing that Kyiv’s battle-tested armed forces and fast-growing defense industry would strengthen the alliance despite opposition from some member countries.
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Sweden backs Ukraine’s path to NATO, defense minister says
Sweden’s Defense Minister Pål Jonson said Kyiv’s battle-tested army and fast-growing defense industry would strengthen the alliance, even as some NATO members remain opposed.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23/05/2026
People in southern Lebanon are living under "psychological terror" from Israeli air attacks and displacement orders aje.news/e5132d
People in southern Lebanon are living under "psychological terror" from Israeli air attacks and displacement orders
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 23/05/2026
Recommended listen: The Bloomberg Zero podcast interviewed Richard Tice, the deputy leader of the hard-right Reform UK party, who exposed his rejection of climate science and support for the oil and gas industry.
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How Reform Plans to Upend Decades of UK Climate Action
Richard Tice, Reform UK’s deputy leader, wants to revive Britain’s oil and gas industry and cut back on renewables.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 23/05/2026
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Climate change threatens global plant species as habitats shrink
Some of the plants that make familiar landscapes recognizable may not survive by century's end as climate change becomes an increasingly important driver of species loss, according to scientists, reshaping and often shrinking suitable ​habitats that the plants need to survive.
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Stop Ecocide International @stopecocide.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
"We are fighting against ecocide" Valdelice Veron Kaiowa, a human rights defender and representative of the indigenous Guarani-Kaiowáin people in Brazil, is supporting the criminalisation of #ecocide. Discover #EcocideLaw supporters www.stopecocide.eart... #StopEcocide
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Reuters @reuters.com · 22/05/2026
Italy's 'Slow Food' founder Carlo Petrini dies at 76 reut.rs/4nFHGvr
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Italy's 'Slow Food' founder Carlo Petrini dies at 76
Carlo ​Petrini, the Italian founder of the international "Slow Food" movement, which reshaped global thinking on food production ‌and consumption, died at the age of 76, the organisation said.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
One insight in @jksocrates.bsky.social’s fascinating warning that Tony Abbott is trying to return to parliament as well as Liberal presidency is that Alexander Downer was the counter proposal from the “moderates”. 🤯 Both conduits for fossil fuel/far right. open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2... #auspol
Tony Abbott and Alexander Downer
contest the presidency of' Australia's "conservative"
party
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Lucy Hamilton
lower house seat, possibly on the Central Coast or in Melbourne.
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Exclusive: Abbott's plot to return to parliament
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 22/05/2026
STARTING NOW: 🇳🇱 The Dutch Supreme Court is hearing a landmark climate case that could reshape corporate climate accountability in Europe & beyond. Follow @duycks.bsky.social for live reporting from The Hague on the #MilieudefensieVShell hearings. 👇 More in the 🧵 & via @milieudefensie.bsky.social 👇
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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
⚖️ 🌍 ⚡ 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 🇳🇱 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞: 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝, @milieudefensie.bsky.social et al. v. Shell. #ClimateJustice #ClimateCaseShell 🧵 ⬇️ analysis in thread below
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International Passive House Association (iPHA) @ipha.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Join the iPHA Project Spotlight on 3 June, 9am CEST, exploring The Seed Co-housing — an award-winning certified Passive House near Dundee focused on co-living, bio-based materials, and low embodied carbon. More info & registration: ow.ly/IAk650Z2JE4
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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
What is the role of art in any crisis? To understand what is, and to imagine what could be. This is the message of @david-farrier.bsky.social, professor in literature and the author of 'Nature's Genius: Evolutions Lessons for a Changing Planet'. Full Episode: www.planetcritical.com/david-farrier/
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/05/2026
Researchers are still grappling with the consequences of America’s abrupt retreat.
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Trump and Elon Musk crushed USAID. Hunger and violence followed.
Researchers are still grappling with the consequences of America's abrupt retreat.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/05/2026
‘It’s put the joy levels up’: the flood-prone London school with a climate-adapted playground
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‘It’s put the joy levels up’: the flood-prone London school with a climate-adapted playground
When pupils could no longer play outside, St John’s school in Barnet decided to act, enlisting Trees for Cities to help rethink its outside space
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/05/2026
The omission of Gaza in the DNC's recently released autopsy of why they lost the 2024 election is avoidant at best and dishonest at worst.
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There are 50,000 words in the DNC autopsy. "Gaza" isn't one.
The report appears to omit any policy reasons why some Democratic voters might not have chosen Harris.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/05/2026
In Opinion Trump "may wish to be considered in the same class as Napoleon or Alexander the Great, but he is in danger of turning himself into the next Mobutu Sese Seko or Mohamed Suharto: a kleptocrat remembered not for his ideas, not for his power, but for his greed,” Noah Shachtman writes.
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Opinion | Trump Just Took Us Somewhere the Country Has Never Been Before
There’s no telling where this leads.
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Euronews @euronews.com · 22/05/2026
Musk's X fined for failing to comply with Australian online safety law
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Musk's X fined for failing to comply with Australian online safety law
The initial violation notice was sent by Australian authorities to Twitter Inc shortly before billionaire Elon Musk acquired the company and renamed it to X. The social media platform’s attorneys argued that the fine was not justified as the violation came during a period of change and transition.
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 22/05/2026
Rich countries have been burning through oil stockpiles and seeking other suppliers to avoid the global energy crunch. But these measures have limits.
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4 reasons the ‘largest energy crisis’ on record has been held at bay – and why there’s pain to come
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 22/05/2026
Plenty of politicians engage in self-dealing, but you'd have a hard time finding an example of one who grabbed the cookie jar so directly and stuck his hand inside, in full view of the public.
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Trump's corruption is brazen, obvious, and costly. Will enough Republicans try to stop him?
Impeachment is the appropriate remedy for this type of outright violation of the public trust.
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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Imagine where we'd be if the Greens received as much free validation in the media as ON is receiving.
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"The correspondence also shows that the party’s new branches and members will be subject to strict gag orders: all committee members and nominees must sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), while branches must agree to a “media silence” policy and a social media ban."
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One Nation’s rapid national expansion in disarray as ‘significant risks’ force dissolution of new branches
Exclusive: Documents seen by Guardian Australia also show new branches and members will be subject to strict gag orders
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 21/05/2026
In this extract from his newly published essay collection, the author traces the imperial British origins of a quintessential Kiwi chore.
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Mowing the lawn: the colonial ghosts haunting our suburban ritual
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 22/05/2026
"For too long, many of the wealthiest Australians have used trusts to avoid paying their fair share," said Dr Richard Denniss, co-CEO of The Australia Institute. Read the full media release 👇 theaus.in/3PvdWVF
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eco mindful @ecomindful.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
SHAME! #auspol
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 22/05/2026
The @who.int has declared a public health emergency as an Ebola outbreak spreads from rural DRC to major cities, including Kinshasa and Kampala. With over 139 suspected deaths, officials warn the region faces a severe threat from the Bundibugyo strain, which currently has no approved treatment.
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Ebola outbreak reaches major cities in DR Congo, Uganda amid fears of regional spread
The Ebola hemorrhagic fever virus outbreak that began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was officially confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO) on May 15. Less than a week later, the…
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Colin Raymond @regclimo.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I recently had the pleasure of appearing on @urgentfutures.bsky.social for a meticulous, wide-ranging conversation about heat hazards, risks, and potential actions. Many thanks to host Jesse Damiani for the invitation and adroit questions! www.realitystudies.co/p/understand...
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Understanding Wet-Bulb Temperature, Climate Extremes, & Systemic Risk—& How We Build Resilience - Colin Raymond | #56
The unfortunate reality is we're going to be learning about WBTs the hard way more and more—so let's dig into what they are & what we can do to stay safe.
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eco mindful @ecomindful.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This is the conversation that matters most! 💚 #Energy #CarbonPulse #ClimateChange #PlanetaryBoundaries #ExistentialRisk #Psychology #TGS #NateHagens #auspol
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Morabeets 🍉 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🌏♀️ @morabeets.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Climate change denial has become untenable yet Hanson’s party digs in – with conspiracy theories, cherrypicking and claims that are easy to refute That is all they have Bullshit #auspol
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One Nation says it’s the only party in Australia to question climate science. It should ask itself why | Temperature Check
Climate change denial has become untenable yet Hanson’s party digs in – with conspiracy theories, cherrypicking and claims that are easy to refute
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 21/05/2026
In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, protecting the planet's most biodiverse forests is a life-threatening job. For former Virunga ranger Emmanuel Bahati Lukoo, this reality is deeply personal. "Rangers should be recognized while they are still living." Read our full interview.
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He survived a deadly attack, now he is calling for better working conditions for rangers in DRC
In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in central Africa, protecting nature can cost you your life. For years, rangers operating in parks such as Virunga and Kahuzi-Biega have worked amid armed…
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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Technically we are already in a runaway warming Just needs some time to realize Fun fact: about 1 - 2.5Gt of annual CO2 emissions needed that warming continues Why do we know that? Past warming events had been driven by 1/4 - 1/10 of current emission rates, so... #Climate #Earth
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Wonders whether cabinet ministers have enough basic science competence to know that we will all keel over in two days without water. WTAF?!
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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Well, this is total garbage ... What are we doing???? theconversation.com/csiro-is-cut...
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CSIRO is cutting climate science jobs. This is what’s at stake for Australia
CSIRO has been the custodian of Australia’s climate modelling through decades of shrinking budgets. Sacking scientists will change this.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 21/05/2026
Your 'doom quote' for today: "El Niño’s impacts on harvest-bringing monsoons can lead to famines of astonishing devastation: During just one, in 1877, an estimated 18.5 million Indians perished." nautil.us/el-nio-has-e...
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El Niño Has Ended Kingdoms and Civilizations - Nautilus
On a damp, foggy January morning in 1793, Louis XVI, besieged monarch of France, stood before a guillotine. To some 20,000 of his angry subjects, Louis declared: “I die innocent of all the pretended c...
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 21/05/2026
India holds around 100,000 sacred groves, but in Odisha state, these vital patches of biodiversity are shrinking due to roads, development, and human settlement. Researchers urge a formal conservation framework to protect these community-conserved forests.
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Communities say sacred groves are shrinking in India’s eastern ghats
Sacred groves in the Indian state of Odisha continue to be protected now, as they have for hundreds of years because of cultural and spiritual values associated with them, a recent study has found.…
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New AI models 'too dangerous' to release are fuelling the government's desire to woo tech companies down under open.substack.com/pub/webcam/p...
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New AI models 'too dangerous' to release are fuelling the government's desire to woo tech companies down under
Anthropic's chief lawyer is in town this week. On the agenda for closed door meetings with senior government officials? Securing Australian access to its latest model, Mythos.
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Aussie Moths @wa-moths.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Trichiocercus sparshalli - Long-tailed Bombyx This Long-tailed Bombyx is demonstrating exactly where its common name comes from. Seen in the Perth Hills, May 2026. #teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Top view of a moth with pearly white wings and abdomen which has a tuft of long white scales that appear to be like a tail
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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Wildfires are devastating in various way's Additional problem: heavy floods intensify the problem of groundwater contamination... #climate #earth
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After the flames, wildfires pollute drinking water for years
Wildfires can cause contaminants to seep into waterways, polluting the drinking water that communities rely on.
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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 20/05/2026
What we now know as race came about in large part because of the institutions and methods invented by the Enlightenment.
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The men who invented the concept of race
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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Wildfires, storms and record-breaking heat: 26,000 US wildfires already, AI data center water use collides with drought, Climate change reducing oxygen in rivers worldwide, Antarctic glacier collapses at record speed, 3 big things they don’t want you to know about Ebola… in The Collapse Chronicle!
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The Collapse Chronicle May 20
Wildfires, storms and record-breaking heat: 26,000 US wildfires already, AI data center water use collides with drought, Climate change reducing oxygen in rivers worldwide, Antarctic glacier collapses...
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 20/05/2026
Wanted: ball-obsessed rescue dog to save Australia’s endangered koalas from fires and floods
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Wanted: ball-obsessed rescue dog to save Australia’s endangered koalas from fires and floods
After a decade helping rescue koalas from bushfires and other disasters, 11-year-old detection dog Bear retired in March The search is on for a ball-obsessed rescue dog to help save endangered koalas from fires and floods, after a beloved veteran retired. Australia’s most famous koala-sniffing dog has hung up his little red boots, and now the search is on for his successor. Continue reading...
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Euronews @euronews.com · 20/05/2026
The new Hungarian government has signalled its readiness to allow the European Union to sanction Patriarch Kirill, the head of Russia's Orthodox Church, and other individuals whom former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had protected, Euronews can confirm. l.euronews.com/NTNg
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