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Joy McCann

@mjmccann.bsky.social
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Environmental/public historian & writer - oceans, ice, coasts & islands. Author of Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean. Living on Palawa country, lutruwita Tasmania. #envhist #envhum #naturewriting www.joymccann.blog

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Joy McCann @mjmccann.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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Ancient Huon pines confirmed intact following fire impact assessments | Parks & Wildlife Service Tasmania Group
A 3,000-year-old Huon pine and several high-conservation stands of ancient trees have been confirmed to be intact and undamaged by the bushfires impacting Tasmania’s rugged West Coast.
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Joy McCann @mjmccann.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Our sky turned red. In black summer, Australia stepped off ‘some kind of precipice’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Our sky turned red. In black summer, Australia stepped off ‘some kind of precipice’
The black summer bushfires heralded the beginning of a time when we realised the world as we knew it was gone. Five years later, we still space for grief, anger and political action
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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Due to the impeccable timing of a delayed official press release, you probably haven’t heard that 40% of corals on the southern Great Barrier Reef died in 2024 due to record-breaking heat exposure. www.voanews.com/a/surveys-sh...
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Surveys show widespread Great Barrier Reef coral loss
Researchers say warming oceans threaten world’s reefs
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Paula 🌹 @paularose.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
The audacious plan to decorate the world's tallest Christmas tree in remote Tasmania www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
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Protesters decorate 80-metre-tall Christmas tree to stop it from getting logged
When an 80-metre gum tree in the Tasmanian forest was due to be cut down for logging, conservationists turned it into the world’s tallest Christmas tree.
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Paula 🌹 @paularose.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Critically endangered grasslands in Tasmania’s Midlands were being destroyed by agriculture, but an innovative partnership has protected the remaining ecosystem www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Sheep farmers are helping save Tasmania’s native grasslands: ‘We’re better off working together’
Critically endangered grasslands in Tasmania’s Midlands were being destroyed by agriculture, but an innovative partnership has protected the remaining ecosystem – and local farmers’ profits
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Joy McCann @mjmccann.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Some news from down under! The Unruly Ocean (coauthored with Erika Techera) has just been published by Routledge! Also my plans for a quieter 2025 have been quietly shelved with a Tasmanian State Library & Archives research fellowship on Tasmania’s Antarctic connections. #envhist #envhum #antarctic
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Joy McCann @mjmccann.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Good news from Hobartisan Books - the Southern Ocean anthology will be available for sale from bookshops in March 2025.
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Scott Reef’s a rare, unspoiled gem home to endangered sea snakes, turtles & manta rays. But Woodside’s mammoth Browse gas project threatens it all. The Environment Minister must act to protect this natural wonder, not to allow further damage to our climate. www.smh.com.au/environment/...
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Rare glimpse at stunning reef near Woodside’s gas plans
Scott Reef is, in the words of author Tim Winton, the last “unspoiled” clear-water coral reef in Australia.
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Garth-Gasu ガース in日本語 @gasugasu1984.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
"In the last year Israel has killed 17,500 children in Gaza In Launceston there are 17,000 under 20's Imagine this city with no children Stand up, Speak out Stop the Genocide"
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Lolamarina🦋 @lolamarina.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Dr. Helen Scales is my favorite marine biologist! Please buy anything she writes for holiday giving if you can!! #naturewriting #science #oceans
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Dr Annetta Mallon PhD @gdepau.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
FFS! Still, I suppose the Tasmanian government needs stadium funding from somewhere... 🤔 We need federal protections for old-growth forests across the country. #politas #auspol #environment #sustainability www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
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Documents reveal plans to make 39,000 hectares of native Tasmanian forest available for logging
Right to information documents have revealed that parcels of native forest that could soon be available for logging in Tasmania contain vast swathes of "old growth" forest and threatened species. The ...
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Ron Baumann @theronbaumann.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Australia! Don't become America. It's time for some serious election propaganda. Please share. youtu.be/-oxQ5fmiI9M?...
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Honest Government Ad | 2025 Election
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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Joy McCann @mjmccann.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#naturewriting
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Joy McCann @mjmccann.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#envhist #envhum
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
🌊 "Nowhere on Earth is there a greater cause of uncertainty in sea-level rise projections than from East Antarctica, in Australia’s backyard. The East Antarctic Ice Sheet alone holds enough water to raise global sea levels by approximately 50m if completely melted." www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
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Unprecedented changes in Antarctica ice prompt researchers to issue emergency statement
Hundreds of polar researchers issue an emergency statement calling for urgent action to deal with the impacts of climate change in Antarctica.
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Joy McCann @mjmccann.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A brilliant ‘talk’ from one of the world’s Antarctic sea ice experts as part of the Australian Antarctic Research Conference in Hobart this week.
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Joy McCann @mjmccann.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The City of Hobart (lutruwita Tasmania) has just released ‘Voices of the Southern Ocean’ (Hobartisan Books 2024), an anthology celebrating Hobart’s designation as a UNESCO City of Literature. Initially sent to CCAMLR delegates and other ocean decision makers. Honoured to be part of this project.
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Joy McCann @mjmccann.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The City of Hobart (lutruwita Tasmania) has just released ‘Voices of the Southern Ocean’ (Hobartisan Books 2024), an anthology celebrating Hobart’s designation as a UNESCO City of Literature. Initially sent to CCAMLR delegates and other ocean decision makers. Honoured to be part of this project.
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