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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years. "Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third." This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government. www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
smh.com.au
CSIRO to slash hundreds of jobs in cost-saving drive
The staff association at the nation’s leading scientific research organisation says the latest round of cuts marks “a sad day for publicly funded science”.
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Ian@collapseaphorisms @collapseaphorisms.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"Samsung Electronics this month raised prices of certain memory chips - now in short supply due to the global race to build AI data centres - by as much as 60% compared to September, two people with knowledge of the hikes said." (Reuters) #collapse
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Anyone wondering why so many of us believe that the climate regime is fatally flawed, here’s the evidence: 30 years in (and in the middle of the COP30 meetings), and we are still nowhere near where we need to go! www.theguardian.com/environment/... #COPOut
theguardian.com
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 14/11/2025
Another way to reduce electricity prices? Shifting from for-profit, investor-owned monopoly utilities to municipal utilities or member-owned co-operatives would save about 15% on electricity bills, averaged over locations and customer classes.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém (Brazil), 12% up from last year’s talks in Baku, Azerbaijan. What should be the most serious, urgent talks on the planet continue to be a farce. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Climate knowledge has been taken hostage to prevent climate action. “It didn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth. Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies.”
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Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
'Europe’s water crisis A new report from Danfoss warns that the water sector’s energy consumption is expected to double by 2040 while the energy sector’s water demand could rise by almost 60%. Global water demand could also outstrip supply by 40% in the next 5 yrs' www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
euronews.com
Why Europe’s water crisis will cost millions and drive climate crisis
Europe’s ‘strained’ energy and water system could slash GDP by up to eight per cent in high-income countries.
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happyjack333.bsky.social @happyjack333.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
This is an election loser policy. Jacinta Allan says reforms would see housing permit-approval times slashed and generate more than $900m in construction activity each year ebx.sh/3nTbYN
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Victorian premier vows to scrap ‘old-fashioned Nimby’ planning laws, fast-track homes and curb rights to object
Jacinta Allan says reforms would see housing permit-approval times slashed and generate more than $900m in construction activity each year
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Jim McClelland @sustmeme.com · 25/10/2025
News: Research reveals global share of companies linked to both #greenwashing and #biodiversity risks doubled over past five years — dig into data analysis in RepRisk report, with regional, sectoral breakdowns + repeat offenders — full story on SustMeme Business & Finance Channel: buff.ly/pmbVMlj
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happyjack333.bsky.social @happyjack333.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Labor won't stop with their mega population strategy - soon Melbourne will stretch all the way to Sydney. No wonder the far right is becoming so popular. www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
theage.com.au
‘Segregated’ city: The west alone can’t shoulder housing boom, minister warns
Housing Minister Clare O’Neil says wealthier inner and middle suburbs must accept new housing as Wyndham, Melton and Brimbank have done the “heavy lifting”.
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XR Islington @islingtonxr.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
🌍🚨🌎🚨🌏🚨🌍🚨🌎🚨🌍🚨🌏🚨 Earth has reached its first catastrophic #tippingpoint linked to greenhouse gas #emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
One part of the energy revolution The rapid decline in battery pack prices, matched by increased uptake Batteries can be used to match the daily cycle of solar energy, discharging in evening/night after being charged during the day They are solar power enablers ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...
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happyjack333.bsky.social @happyjack333.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
This actually made me cry.
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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Release the Epstein Files.
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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Ongoing flooding in El Salvador "Climate chaos and a dramatic scene that is repeating itself, now in El Salvador: people trapped in their cars due to extreme rains and flash floods. We all run the risk of being that man tomorrow."
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James Harding-Morris @jameshardingmorris.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The Little Whirlpool Ramshorn Snail - one of a series of photographs I commissioned whilst working on the Back from the Brink project so that people could actually *see* some of our most threatened and beautiful species. 📷: Alex Hyde/Back from the Brink
Little Whirlpool Ramshorn Snail on a fingertip
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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
'‘It’s all dead now... nothing will grow’: Fish and hippos dissolve in polluted acid river [Zambia]... On Feb 18 a dam holding back a lake of toxic waste broke at the Sino-Metals Leach (SML) Zambia mine after heavy rains...' www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
'Over the past year, Australia’s oceans have been hotter than ever before. Its impacts were felt all across the nation ...“It looks like the warm oceans probably contributed to some of the significant weather events that we saw [over the last year],” BOM...said.' www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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Ocean heat was off the charts, and Australia bore the brunt
For the past year, Australia's oceans have been hotter than ever before. The impacts are being felt all across the nation — as far away from the coast as you can get.
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
“What we’re seeing here is certainly not something that’s been seen before in our historical data” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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Ocean heat was off the charts, and Australia bore the brunt
For the past year, Australia's oceans have been hotter than ever before. The impacts are being felt all across the nation — as far away from the coast as you can get.
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 02/10/2025
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
“We’re facing two existential crises, climate and democracy, and it’s now or never for both. We can’t have a stable democracy with an unstable climate, and we can’t have a stable climate unless we have a democracy. And so we have to fight both together.” - Jane Fonda www.latimes.com/california/s...
latimes.com
Jane Fonda, derided as 'Hanoi Jane' and a traitor during the Vietnam War, is a modern-day force in Democratic politics
Politically active for more than a half-century, actor Jane Fonda is now focusing her energy, celebrity, connections and resources on fighting climate change and combating the "existential crises" cre...
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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
'"Shocked, not surprised": Northeast Atlantic mackerel at historic low. Corresponding with “years of excessive catches”, advice has been released this week ...describing the species as having “plummeted to a level from which it will struggle to recover.”' oceanographicmagazine.com/news/shocked...
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"Shocked, not surprised": Northeast Atlantic mackerel at historic low - Oceanographic
Scientists advise a stark 77% reduction in North East Atlantic mackerel catches from the previous year - a sign of concerning stock declines.
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Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The economics will win the end (and proof against Trump’s lies, as if we needed more proof) #renewables #solar #wind #energy #cleantech #climatetech theprogressplaybook.com/2025/10/02/i...
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In numbers: Renewables have turned Spain into one of Europe's cheapest electricity markets
Wind and solar met almost half of Spain’s electricity demand in the first half of 2025 (46%), up from 27% in the same period in 2019.
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Water pollution, air pollution, soil pollution, livestock deaths. But other than that, what's not to love about fracking? www.texastribune.org/2023/10/31/t...
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Oil and gas companies spill millions of gallons of wastewater in Texas
An exclusive Inside Climate News analysis found that companies have spilled nearly 150 million gallons of toxic, highly saline wastewater in Texas over the last decade.
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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
One mother and calf trapped for five days ... in distress all this time. FOUR whales now caught in these filthy nets and no way to free them. Drowning! Heartbreaking 🥵 BAN shark nets!!!! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Whale and her calf entangled in shark net off Queensland coast
‘Heartbreaking’ drone footage has captured the moment a mother and calf became trapped. Four humpbacks have been snared in recent days
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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
'A one-of-its-kind study, Finland's government-commissioned “Report on the Future” outlines 4 different scenarios for... the world in 2045, ranging from a future dominated by tech giants to one in which old alliances have collapsed & war has become the new normal.' www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
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From climate collapse to the end of NATO: Finland outlines scenarios for the world in 2045
A one-of-its-kind study, Finland's government-commissioned “Report on the Future” outlines four different scenarios for the state of the world in 2045, ranging from a future dominated by tech giants…
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Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"To achieve Paris-compliant emission reductions, high-income countries will need to pursue post-growth demand-reduction strategies, reorienting the economy towards sufficiency, equity, and human wellbeing, while also accelerating technological change and efficiency improvements."
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Is green growth happening? An empirical analysis of achieved versus Paris-compliant CO2–GDP decoupling in high-income countries
The decoupling rates achieved in high-income countries are inadequate for meeting the climate and equity commitments of the Paris Agreement and cannot legitimately be considered green. If green is to ...
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/09/2025
Honestly pretty unbothered by the addition of a grimmer scenario in the World Energy Outlook - I think it is actually valuable to see the impacts of a worse, more fossil-damaged world. What bugs me eternally is that Javier Blas pointedly leaves out why fossil co's + Trump benefit from them
The idea that a peak in fossil-fuel demand was approaching got significant traction in large part thanks to the IEA, whose annual World Energy Outlook tries to imagine the future via a series of scenarios. While the exercise is quite useful, it doesn’t come remotely close to making forecasts. They are based on assumptions about economic development, population growth, political will, technological developments and prices. While not a crystal ball, the scenarios do offer important insights.

The IEA long published a main scenario based around the policies of the day — called, unsurprisingly, “Current Policy Scenario (CPS).” The model had significant shortcomings: Historically, it undercounted solar and wind power. Thus, in 2020, the IEA discontinued it, in part due to pressure from European nations and green campaigners. That was replaced by a “Stated Policies Scenario (STEPS),” which not only considered current policies but also “policy proposals, even if the specific measures needed to put these proposals into effect have yet to be fully developed.” In short, it mixed policy with political promises. It later introduced another scenario, called “Announced Pledges Scenario (APS)”, which assumed that all the energy and climate policies, plus political aspirations were met in full and on time.1

The two new scenarios shifted massively the path for fossil-fuel demand — and carbon dioxide emissions — predicting peak consumption by 2029, and then a decline, slower under the STEPS scenario and faster under the APS model. The decline was so meaningful under the latter that it gave credence to the idea that trillions of dollars worth of fossil-fuel reserves would be left stranded. Western policymakers became convinced that the new scenarios represented something akin to a forecast – and thus that demand would indeed drop. But many others – including your writer – anticipated stronger consumption. In my case, I particularly flagged that coal demand would prove stickier.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Correct Bernie! RepubliKKKans Haven't believed in Science FOREVER......
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Billions of lights pierce the night sky, disorienting migrating birds and leading to deadly collisions. Fall migration is underway—turn off unnecessary lights at night. A small act, but it saves lives. 🌌🕊️ youtu.be/_gXSN2GmI8M?...
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Bright lights in the big cities
YouTube video by Kyle Horton
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DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
“Unachievable.”
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Treasury criticises ‘unachievable’ plan for underground nuclear waste dump in Cumbria
Assessment suggests cost of project to store 700,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste could reach £54bn
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The argument against regulation is always the same: “It stifles growth and jobs.” But just as tax cuts for corporations have not trickled down, regulatory cuts have not benefited most people. Big companies enjoy bigger profits. Working people bear the costs.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
UK’s environmental protections are weaker than pre-Brexit www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
From clean air to pesticides: how UK has lagged behind EU on the environment
Labour has continued to diverge from bloc’s laws, meaning most of UK’s protections are weaker than pre-Brexit
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities theconversation.com/cycling-is-t...
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Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Fossil-fuelled heat has caused tropical birds to decline by ‘up to 38%’ since 1950s They do not have the luxury of air conditioning “High temperature extremes can induce direct mortality in bird populations due to hyperthermia and dehydration.” www.carbonbrief.org/fossil-fuell...
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Fossil-fuelled heat has caused tropical birds to decline by ‘up to 38%’ since 1950s - Carbon Brief
An uptick in heat extremes has caused tropical bird populations to decline by up to 38% since the 1950s, according to new analysis.
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Andrew Hoffman @andyhoffman.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’ If AI can analyze information, crunch data and deliver a slick PowerPoint deck within seconds, how does the biggest name in consulting stay relevant? www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mcki...
wsj.com
AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’
If AI can analyze information, crunch data and deliver a slick PowerPoint deck within seconds, how does the biggest name in consulting stay relevant?
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EU-Ireland Policy Network @euirelandpolicynet.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
"As wildfires rage across Bulgaria, Greece, and Germany, and heatwaves grip cities from Vienna to Malaga, one thing is clear: climate-related hazards are no longer exceptional events. They are becoming the new norm for millions of people across Europe." redcross.eu/latest-news/...
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Facing the heat: Preparing Europe for a new climate reality
The Preparedness Union Strategy provides a vital framework to develop the tools and coordination needed to respond effectively to emerging threats and crises.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 02/08/2025
Civil groups expressed dismay as the 30th International Seabed Authority (ISA) session recently ended in Jamaica without a moratorium on deep-sea mining, a process of extracting minerals from the seafloor, which experts say can damage marine ecosystems.
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UN meeting closes with no moratorium on deep-sea mining; groups lament
Civil groups expressed dismay as the 30th International Seabed Authority (ISA) session recently ended in Jamaica without a moratorium on deep-sea mining, a process of extracting minerals from the…
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Iran has been in a #water crisis for a long time. That crisis is coming to a head. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/w...
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Tehran Is at Risk of Running Out of Water Within Weeks
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happyjack333.bsky.social @happyjack333.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The only thing that Australia cares about is how to turn country into profit. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
theage.com.au
How a century-old ‘zombie subdivision’ became Melbourne’s ‘worst case of urban blight’
A prime site in Melbourne’s west boasts river frontage, city views and proximity to transport links. Yet Solomon Heights has remained undeveloped for a century.
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happyjack333.bsky.social @happyjack333.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Big australia is a total mess. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
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Cost of planning new suburbs skyrockets as approvals collapse
New analysis has revealed a dramatic slowdown in the delivery of new suburbs by the state’s planning authority.
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Prof William Ripple @williamripple.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
What's the harm. .?
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happyjack333.bsky.social @happyjack333.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Australia is one of the wealthiest nations on earth, amd we are walking away from the arts, and becoming even more anti intellectual. Shame.
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Chevy Jaxon @chevy-jaxon.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
"In surrounding ourselves with simulated recreations of nature we create unwitting monuments to the very things that we have lost" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Polar bears in shopping malls, fibreglass mountains, indoor rainforests: how humans got addicted to faking the natural world
In his new book, The Anthropocene Illusion, photographer Zed Nelson reflects on the surreal environments created as people destroy nature, yet crave connection to it
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Anthony Scandini [ΣΔσ̌φ√] @behindthecamera.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Remember the audience ...
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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
'Surveys show that the increasing number of extreme climate events... has not raised awareness of the threats posed by CC. Instead, people change their idea of what they see as normal. This so-called “boiling frog effect” makes gradual change difficult to spot.' www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
theguardian.com
‘Boiling frog’ effect makes people oblivious to threat of climate crisis, shows study
Research shows people’s response to binary data could drive more effective ways of communicating gravity of crisis
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Chevy Jaxon @chevy-jaxon.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Mercury is one of the world’s 10 deadliest chemicals. It persists in the environment indefinitely Mercury production out of control in Mexico, driven by high gold prices & cartel involvement Traffickers are smuggling it into tropical forests in large quantities www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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It is one of the deadliest chemicals on Earth – but even Mexico’s cartels can’t resist the lure of mercury
An undercover investigation reveals 200 tonnes of the deadly substance is being smuggled across South America, where it is poisoning rivers, soil and air
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 25/07/2025
Australia’s gas addiction and position as one of the top-three fossil fuel exporters in the world is the stain on its potential climate legacy – and must be addressed.
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International law is now on our side: Australia must follow Pacific’s lead on climate action
Australia’s gas addiction and position as one of the top-three fossil fuel exporters in the world is the stain on its potential climate legacy – and must be addressed.
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