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Elaine Johnson @elainejohnson.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Both major parties are looking to push this Bill through Parliament in the next week, despite the fact that the Minister mislead the public about ICAC having reviewed the Bill (which ICAC has now confirmed it did not). The Bill contains major corruption risks. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Minister urged to release advice amid concern overhaul of NSW housing laws may lead to coalmine approvals

Greens MP Sue Higginson says Icac confirmed to her it had not reviewed the bill, but had given general advice on some elements of it

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

There are 85 gas-fired power facilities in development globally to supply data centres & AI The developers may talk green, about small nuclear reactors& renewables, but it's show What's actually getting developed for AI is a huge surge of fossil fuel power stations www.ft.com/content/0f61...

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Inside the AI race: can data centres ever truly be green?

Energy demand for training machines and running apps is driving a surge of investment into fossil fuels

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Stephanie Carrick @stephaniecarrick.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Sitting on this truly shocking NSW State of the Environment report and doing basically nothing about it in the budget is insane. 1/3 Animals

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/06/2025

It's great to see some thoughtful reflection in this op-ed on how wrong Americans were to largely ignore methane in climate action plans this century. I'd add: - Groups that endorsed natural gas as a bridge fuel, such as Democrats and some big greens, share responsibility for methane pollution 1/

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Opinion | What Environmentalists Like Me Got Wrong About Climate Change

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Stephanie Carrick @stephaniecarrick.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Just read a proposal for a housing development that argued by bulldozing critically endangered forest/koala habitat and instead planting non-native street trees they will be contributing to an increase in urban canopy targets. My god.

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Market Forces @marketforces.org.au · 28/05/2025

Every single young Australian would need to order 4,888 t-shirts from Temu each year (13 per day) to match Woodside's current emissions. And to reach Woodside's maximum emissions estimates for the North West Shelf Extension? They would each need to order 214,571 t-shirts. #woodsideenergy

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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.

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Jon Dee (JonDee.com) @jondeeoz.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

A former magistrate and one of Australia’s most experienced scientists have launched an attack on the NSW government’s logging agency, describing it as effectively a “criminal organisation” that should be shut down after a string of court convictions. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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NSW forestry agency should be shut down for repeatedly breaking law, critics argue

Forestry Corporation says suggestion that it can be compared to a criminal bikie gang is ‘ridiculous’

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 08/05/2025

In Franklin, the epicentre of the salmon industry, Independent Peter George achieved a swing of ~6% against Labor. Mr George focused on fixing the salmon industry’s problems and – while he did not win the seat – he did win the vast majority of votes at booths adjacent to where the industry operates.

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Election result shows the Tasmanian salmon industry is still on the nose - The Australia Institute

Labor and the Coalition went to the election with the same policy position on Tasmania's salmon industry: support at any cost.

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Easy to miss amidst the avalanche of bullshit, but scientists have shown conclusively that a handful of fossil fuel companies are responsible for trillions in damages for their contribution to heat waves alone. The great @roycerk2.bsky.social explains: drilled.media/news/heat-at...

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“Numbers in the Trillions”: Fossil Fuel Producers on Hook for Climate Harms

New research suggests a way to link oil, gas and coal companies to specific climate harms.

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Stephanie Carrick @stephaniecarrick.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Coming from Goldman Sachs banker. Yet when the Greens suggest it in Aus…

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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

We underestimate one another on climate change! Such a brilliant important explainer from @dpcarrington.bsky.social on how we underestimate one another's willingness to address climate change and as a result we end up doing less. Correcting this = more action! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Stephanie Carrick @stephaniecarrick.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I spoke to ABC News about our new research that shows around half of Campbelltown Council's last generation of disease free Koalas have been struck by vehicles. That’s 110 Koalas in the last 6 years. Yet plans to cut off their corridors by NSW Gov persist. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

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The Sydney surburban sprawl that’s a death zone for koalas

Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

“If a car generates more potholes in our roads, takes up more parking space and poses more danger to pedestrians, cyclists and other car occupants compared with smaller vehicles, then it is only fair that its owner pays more for driving that vehicle.” Via @theguardian.com

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The Observer view on SUVs: they are too dangerous and too big, their drivers should be made to pay

If a car generates more potholes, takes up more space and poses more risk, it is only fair that its owner pays more

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Heard Island and McDonald Islands have seen a dramatic warming since 1940. The penguins there have enough to deal with even without the 10% tariffs just imposed on them.

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

In short: „We couldn‘t save the world economy from being diminished by climate change because that would have hurt the economy.“

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Stephanie Carrick @stephaniecarrick.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

So our penguins got tarrifs and Russia didn’t?

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Stephanie Carrick @stephaniecarrick.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Koalas live where people like to live and/or extract resources. Their numbers plummet over time because of the significant impacts that often occur despite the developer promising they won’t (and because use offsets that don’t work). IMO Koalas are utterly stuffed by this law change.

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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Fun additional fact! Pandas in a zoo are getting 0.8 million more than a captive breeding program for Maugean skates ($3 million), with the latter being driven closer to extinction by the toxic Tasmanian salmon industry which Labor supports by taking an axe to the EPBC Act.

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Diren Kocakuşak, Ph.D. @direnkocakusak.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

From the @iea.org Energy Snapshot today: Battery costs have dropped more than 75% since 2015 🔋

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I'm a researcher primarily in adaptation. We are not even adapted to where the climate is today. If you think you can seawall your way through a 4°C planet, you are straight up dreaming. Mitigation AND adaptation, or you end up with way more of option 3 for dealing with climate change: suffering.

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Stephanie Carrick @stephaniecarrick.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

So completely on brand for my neighbour, who bought an oversized SUV despite not having parking, therefore needing to mount the median strip to park it in our narrow street, to place a Liberal placard in his window.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Instead of slowing down, human destruction of the natural world is accelerating, and biodiversity is now declining faster than at any time in human history. The vast majority of us value nature. Why does that so rarely translate into policy, and effective action? theconversation.com/with-just-5-...

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With just 5 years to go, the world is failing on a vital deal to halt biodiversity loss

All countries must accelerate efforts to avert the biodiversity crisis, and preserve Earth’s precious natural places for future generations.

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Grant Hamilton 🐨 @ecologygrant.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Boosting this- There’s an opportunity for a highly performing student to do a #PhD in my lab. Australian domestic or onshore international students only. Study will be in #ecology, and may involve camera or drone imagery, AI, vegetation analysis. Dm me by 1st March. And pls share! 🧪 #AI

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Holly Kirk @hollykirk.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

As if they didn't have enough to worry about, new research shows that, on top of the bird and lizard victims, Australia's threatened marsupials are also dying from anticoagulant rodenticides!! 🌏🧪🦉🦎🐀 Great work by @judydunlop.bsky.social @pezoporus.bsky.social theconversation.com/lethal-secon...

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Lethal second-generation rat poisons are killing endangered quolls and Tasmanian devils

Second generation rat poisons are so potent that they’re banned for home use in Europe and North America. But here, you can pick them up at Bunnings or Coles.

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Brent Hodgson @brenthodgson.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Endangered species polls: 68% of Victorians in metro areas want duck hunting banned. 60% of Victorians in regional areas want duck hunting banned. 29% of sport hunters(!!) want duck hunting banned (recognising how unsustainable it is). Only 22% of Victorians plan to vote 1 for Labor. 🤔

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Stephanie Carrick @stephaniecarrick.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

“Oftentimes we don’t want to allow the beavers to make the choices, because it’s hard to plan around that uncertainty; it’s hard to turn over control to a giant water rodent,” she said. “But that’s when beavers are at their best.” 💚

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Labor just voted with the Coalition to kill THEIR OWN Nature Positive reforms🤯 Enough crossbenchers voted to keep it alive in the Senate for Labor to have passed their long promised reform. Neither of the major parties will stand up for Nature 😥

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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

"88% of the birds [in Panamaian rainforest] lost >1/2 their population, and scientists are beginning to observe almost complete community collapse...There is grief in watching some of the most beautiful, ecologically rich places in the world fall into decline." 🌏 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists may finally know why

Populations have been falling for decades, even in tracts of forest undamaged by humans. Experts have spent two decades trying to understand what is going on

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Stephanie Carrick @stephaniecarrick.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Thirteen Koalas found in the Hills Hornsby district in the north of Sydney. Were it not for the amazing citizen scientists we are lucky to work with they would not have been found as the NSW Gov does not even recognise Koala Habitat as being in the Hills District LGA!! www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

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'Very strong case': Drones spot unrecognised koala group in Sydney

Wildlife groups say thermal drone imagery has found more than a dozen koalas in an area that isn't recognised by the state's koala strategy.

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Stephanie Carrick @stephaniecarrick.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Close encounter with a peregrine falcon. Jealous of its pants.

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Stephanie Carrick @stephaniecarrick.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Large Uni of SYD study released today shows the genetic diversity of Sydney Basin Koalas on the decline due to the fragmentation of habitat by development. How many more alarm bells need to ring?

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Koala genetic diversity in decline as habitats separated from one another

Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.

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Stephanie Carrick @stephaniecarrick.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

After YEARS of community pressure, the moment when Hawkesbury councillors finally voted UNANIMOUSLY to fully fund a Koala Plan of Management. A win for the community and of course koalas.

Hawkesbury Council voted for Koala Plan of Management.

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Sydney Basin Koala Network @sydbasinkoalas.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

What a wonderful day in Mt Riverview in the Lower Blue Mountains training our next cohort of citizen scientists with expert Koala ecologists Biolink & Science for Wildlife. We were very excited to teach locals how to advocate for Koalas in the face of development threats.

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Stephanie Carrick @stephaniecarrick.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

A Koala we found in Campbelltown, Sydney. This is the largest and healthiest koala population in Sydney, but currently the gov has approved their homes to be bulldozed for urban sprawl. #wildlife

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Stephanie Carrick @stephaniecarrick.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Sweet little ringtail possum, reunited with mum. 💕

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