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Lyndal Rowlands

@lyndalrowlands.bsky.social
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Journalist. Al Jazeera. Drilled. Previous: ABC (Australia). IPS UN correspondent. www.lyndalrowlands.com

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 15h
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
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The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Be the iceberg you want to see in the world.
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Lyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is tomorrow!
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 26/09/2026
Has the ABC helped One Nation become the new capital-O Opposition? www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/21/a...
crikey.com.au
How the ABC is helping One Nation become the 'real' opposition
Blame the broadcaster's attempts to skate through impartiality with mindless both-sides thinking.
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Lyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’ve been thinking a lot about how we can support journalists who want to do better reporting on climate change, and wrote down some of what I’ve found out about the gaps, especially in Australia. lyndal-rowlands.beehiiv.com/p/the-state-...
lyndal-rowlands.beehiiv.com
The state of climate change journalism
My thoughts on
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Lyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump told the UN General Assembly that his government was "forced to intervene to stop an obscure UN body, the International Maritime Organization (IMO), from secretly establishing a first-ever global carbon tax."
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is incredibly well-done reporting from NPR on an issue I have thought a lot about this summer: youtu.be/71qcn0xUtIY?...
youtu.be
Why are doomed beach homes left fully furnished?
YouTube video by NPR
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Lyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I just pre-ordered @amywestervelt.bsky.social book - very excited to read it (via @libro.fm audio book) If you want to pre-order (it helps a lot) you have about 1.5 days left to do it!
Cover of ‘brought to you by’ audio book by Amy Westervelt with a red and yellow shape.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
At 18, I got myself vaccinated. My mother claimed religious exemptions to skirt school requirements when I was a child. Recently, I find myself reflecting on how lucky I was to grow up then and not now. And how grateful I am to the largely vaccinated community I grew up around, who kept me safe.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Good on you, @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social & Science Journos Assoc of Australia‼️ The heat-fried, drought-parched, incinerated, smoke-choked, flooding, permafrost-thawing, glacier collapse/rockslide-affected, reef-bleached, typhoon-bashed world needs to apply a spotlight to petrostates like Australia
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Australia is about to co-host COP31 in Turkey but Australia isn't really talking about climate change. To help fix this, Lyndal and I arranged this talk about why the biggest threat to the human species remains the biggest story going. When: 6pm, 29 September. How: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Lyndal Rowlands and Royce Kurmelovs talk climate journalism and COP31. Riot starts Tuesday, 29 September at 6pm. Registration required.
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Lyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you're a journalist, or aspiring journalist, interested in learning more about reporting on the UN and climate change the Science Journalists Association of Australia is hosting a free webinar with @roycerk2.bsky.social and I on Tuesday 29 September at 6pm Melbourne/Sydney time.
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Jordan Gass-Pooré @jgasspoore.hazardpodcast.com · 12/09/2026
Moderating this free pre-#ClimateWeekNYC @sejorg.bsky.social, CPJ, @uprootproject.bsky.social event: "Field Ready: A Conversation on Climate Reporting and Safety" an intimate gathering for environmental journalists and anyone curious about climate reporting and what it means to do this work safely.
Field Ready: A Conversation On Climate Reporting And Safety.
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Andreas Sieber @andreassieber.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#Nepal needs $5bn to rebuild from the #floods. Oil giants Exxon, Chevron & Shell made $36.5bn profit in the past quarter alone. The #LossandDamage Fund can provide only up to $20 million in emergency support. Shared thoughts with @stuti.bsky.social on why this is a test for #climatejustice.
independent.co.uk
Nepal floods disaster offers crucial first test of world climate fund
Nepal wants up to $5bn to rebuild after devastating floods – a figure that is 200 times what’s on offer. Stuti Mishra explains where that leaves the Himalayan nation
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This seems genuinely good for the news industry. So much so that it's hard to believe: www.rebuildlocalnews.org/explainer-ca...
rebuildlocalnews.org
Explainer: California’s Community NEWS Act (AB 2222)
An overview of California’s proposed local journalist employment credit for newsrooms, explaining how the program works, who qualifies, and the safeguards designed to prevent misuse.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/09/2026
I think a really really basic amount of solidarity you can show with climate workers, analysts, writers, experts and advocates is not sharing links to posts that are clearly 100% AI generated (ie: based on plagiarism from the work of all of us doing it using our hearts and our heads)
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Lyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
In case you’re wondering about Abdul el-Sayed’s views on climate change after the Michigan primary
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Lyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The Michigan senate primary come after wildfire smoke last month so this Carbon Bros and @drilledmedia.bsky.social interview with Abdul el-Sayed from last year is worth a listen, to hear how a candidate with a public health background understands the climate crisis youtu.be/bSoDnOPA9H8?...
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Abdul El-Sayed on Climate Complexities and Benevolent Masculinity
YouTube video by Drilled
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Guess who LOVES PROFIT-BOOSTING WAR & couldn't care less about deadly heatwaves, drought, fires, floods & landslides❓ "BP, Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, Shell & TotalEnergies will collectively earn $45 billion in net income during April-June 2026, up from $23 billion in the previous quarter"
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Big Oil fuelling global heatwaves while ‘making a killing’: Oxfam calls for windfall tax to fund adaptation
Oxfam warns that soaring profits at BP, Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, Shell and TotalEnergies are fuelling deadly global heatwaves, with emissions linked to a quarter of such events since 2000. It urges a...
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Lyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Letitia James.
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
“The first minister of Scotland has asked for military aid from the UK government as more than 500 firefighters continue to tackle a fire that has raged in the Cairngorms national park for the past 10 days and forced the evacuation of homes in the remote region.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
theguardian.com
Swinney requests UK military aid as 500 firefighters tackle Cairngorms wildfire
Scottish first minister hopes aerial support will help quench 10-day fire that has forced evacuation of Highlands village
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Lyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Today was my last day at Al Jazeera. I’ll miss my colleagues and will never forget what we’ve been through together but I have some climate change journalism projects I’ve been working on and it’s time to make more time for them. More soon.
A person with shoulder length brown hair and tortoiseshell glass stands in front a tree, smiling.
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
As you do...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Major climate impacts on crops in North America and Europe. Major shipping disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and now, potentially, the Red Sea. Transit through the Panama Canal threatened by drought. It's time we started getting serious about #FoodSecurity.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
As a historian of smallpox vaccination who collects vaccination ephemera, this is quite literally something I sometimes have nightmares about
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 "New York will block the construction of any new large data centers for up to a year so the state can create rules to protect the environment and energy grid from the power-hungry facilities that fuel artificial intelligence technology." apnews.com/article/new-...
apnews.com
New York to impose the country's first statewide moratorium on data centers
New York will block new large data centers that fuel artificial intelligence for up to a year to protect the environment and energy grid. Gov.
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
ONE HUNDRED FOURTEEN DEGREES??????
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Every day this post becomes ever more correct
@PPathole Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/06/2026
The critical thing to understand about this air conditioning debate is that fossil fuel companies should be held accountable for destroying the planet.
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Nancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Iran was treated abysmally in this World Cup. I wonder how the U.S. will feel when a future host does this to one of our teams. Because that will happen. That’s the precedent that was set.
usatoday.com
Shameful treatment of Iran at World Cup sets terrible precedent | Opinion
By allowing shameful treatment of Iran national soccer team, FIFA set awful precedent. Now future hosts could do the same to any team, USMNT included.
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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I managed to get Mariska Hargitay's epic dash to MSG onto her IMDB page!
Screen cap of trivia section of Mariska Hargitay's IMDb page, showing items that have been accepted. (Someone edited it from my original submission and the order got mixed up, so it came out sounding like Hargitay was performing at MSG -- I had to submit a correction last night and this is the final version.)

"Concerned about getting stuck in traffic, she ran from the Hudson Theater on 44th and 6th where she was performing in a one-person show, to Madison Square Gardens to watch the Knicks play Game 4 of the NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs. The Knicks won, 107-106."
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This is evil collective punishment.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Pope Leo preparing for release of a new encyclical on artificial intelligence:
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Doug McNeall @dougmcneall.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
“Built for a climate that no longer exists” is a good phrase www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
UK ‘built for climate that no longer exists’ and needs urgent changes to survive global heating, report warns
Landmark report calls for widespread air conditioning and says UK temperatures forecast to exceed 40C by 2050
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Lyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The responses to this video, from what I presume are US Americans, are strange. Who knows when this video was taken but what they are doing is incredibly dangerous and many Ukrainians have died. It is not a video game.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 29/04/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana map that fairly represents Black voters, gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. This devastating attack from the Court majority destroys protections for voters of color across the country.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I think it's really underappreciated that a large chunk of people across the world are everyday being served images of the world's worst atrocities, essentially live as they happen, in ways previously only experienced by people on the frontline, who have historically had years of trauma as a result.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/04/2026
One year after Spain’s blackout, its shift to renewables and grid evolution power on
theguardian.com
One year after Spain’s blackout, its shift to renewables and grid evolution power on
Though solar was initially incorrectly blamed for crisis, renewables have helped insulate Spain from gas price rises caused by war in Middle East
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
“Darth Vader Looking To Become Even More Hated In The Galaxy, Takes Up Cycling”
kid in a Darth Vader costume on a bike in a bike lane standing beside a white truck.
Darth Vader, looking to become even more hated in the galaxy takes up cycling.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 23/04/2026
"No modern American city has ever run out of water. But chances are rising that Corpus Christi could be the first..." "While city pools and splash pads consume almost 2 million gallons of water over the course of a summer, a single Exxon plastics plant consumes 13 million gallons per day." hmmm
kut.org
Corpus Christi plans to declare a 'water emergency.' What does that mean?
City leaders intend to make unprecedented cuts to water use in September, but they aren’t sure exactly how.
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Lyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Vanuatu’s climate change minister @rregenvanu.bsky.social wrote for Al Jazeera about what’s happening with talks to reduce emissions from shipping at the International Maritime Organization, happening this week and next in London www.aljazeera.com/author/ralph...
aljazeera.com
Ralph Regenvanu | Al Jazeera
Ralph Regenvanu
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Jophin Mathai @jofmat.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Important coverage by @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social. The other thing that stands out: three out of the six women are organising against fossil fuels. The award has underlined the importance of actions aligned to a key principle: primum non nocere. Do no harm.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 21/04/2026
Six women win 2026 Goldman prize, world’s top environmental award aje.news/d1zgl2
Six women win 2026 Goldman prize, world’s top environmental award
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Dr Gary Fuller @drgaryfuller.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"Air pollution acts as a silent accelerator that robs individuals of their healthiest years.” My latest piece for @theguardian.com on research on 396,000 people in the UK. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Air pollution making people in UK get long-term illnesses earlier, study finds
Pollution is ‘silent accelerator that robs individuals of their healthiest years’, say researchers
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Conditions whose onset sped up with air pollution include: Parkinson's, Dementia, thyroid conditions, diabetes, asthma, schizophrenia, high blood pressure, dystonia + bone fractures (related to links between air pollution + osteoporosis). share.google/t61ru2BTF1Il... 2/3
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Air pollution making people in UK get long-term illnesses earlier, study finds
Pollution is ‘silent accelerator that robs individuals of their healthiest years’, say researchers
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Lyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Peter on Maintenance Phase, as a treat
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Kendra Abel @kendrama.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I run a public library, and our numbers are all going up: more people through the door, more items checked out, more computer use, and a ton of new item requests. Same thing happened during the 2008 recession.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
It isn't obscure in library circles, and it should be obvious, but it does seem to confuse a lot of people when I note that a bad economy always sees a spike in virtually every library use statistic.
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