A reminder, from the 2023 IPBES assessment of invasive alien species. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Marine wildlife fleeing to poles due to global heating as Australian oceans face ‘uncharted’ future. The rules that we’ve been relying on for ocean protection and conservation… they’re going to have to evolve. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"And here’s the sick joke of it all: the more you linger on a video to discern if it’s AI-generated, the more of its kind you’ll see." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Retreat is not just about sea-level rise. There are also places that face “Day Zero Droughts.” The age of global environmental instability and disruption is now upon us. Place after place is going to face massive challenges. What most don’t get - yet - it that adaptation *has* limits.

🚨Check out the first blog of our GSB4 ECR series!🚨 Dr. Sabrina Sadiq discusses the path to discovering a vast diversity of viruses in Australian soils, and why we must know more! 📢Be sure to check out the talk at the #GSB4 conference in April! www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/blog-beneath...

More than one person on here keen on mistletoe @ecosystemunraveller.com promoting the positives of mistletoe.

Icelandic is in danger of dying out because of AI and English-language media, says former PM

Now here’s a use where AI could complement human eyes and be useful. Shark recognition can, probably not perfect but neither are humans. When spotted, they simply chase them away with a boat if they look threatening. A Grey Nurse on a reef is not a threat, but a Great White on a bait ball might be.

International Day of People With Disability is coming up, and as a rural non-binary person with disability who works in disability support I would like to suggest your organisation please invite me to speak (or at least invite me to the brunch)

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... Antarctic scientists have documented the fastest retreat of a glacier in modern history, after it lost eight kilometres of ice in just two months.

This research is particularly relevant for Australia - the Varroa mite infestation sweeping across the national honeybee colonies is largely virus-free. If there are additional illegal #bee imports that bring in viruses, this will only increase the impact.

Research shows that ‘Long-unburnt snow gum forests (now) comprise ~1% of snow gum forests in the Alps’. The forests that our parents knew are now largely gone. It’s strange how quickly this calamitous state of affairs has become ‘normal’. themountainjournal.com/2025/11/04/s...

Frankincense and myrrh feature prominently in many religious occassions, including the visit of the Three Wise Men to the Baby Jesus. Read about these amazing tree products at Our Trees.

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This really is a MUST READ.

Information sharing matters. This is open access. Isabelle Onley, Phil Cassey and Melodie McGeoch are Australian.

A good news story. These kids are fantastic. Lyrebird medley any one? Sound up. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Easy to dismiss as vibes based investing but hope and aspiration were a key part of what drove early economic growth in the 18th C Mokyr noted the idea of a better tomorrrow was such a break from the past that it merited risk-taking We definitely need more optimism

An Australia Halloween. Manna gums and Angophoras can make spooky shapes of giants. Then when you add big bad banksia men, mountain devils and gum it babies, who needs decoration. I am told there are fairies in the spring orchids and flowering herbs too.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... #Murujuga

Australia 🤝 Ireland voting is better when paired with food

Magpies are friends. They are so curious and entertaining with their songs and antics www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

This hornet has invaded Europe from Asia. Probably has its eye on North America and Australia next. Not good for native pollinators and honeybees or us. Hitchiker. France thinks it came in boxes of clay pots. Hard to eradicate if established. So need to keep a eye out at ports and warehouses

You always know when a project “starts” because it is announced with self-congratulatory fanfare, but not how it "exits"... Ultimately, this paper emphasises that responsible exits are a crucial part of ethical and effective conservation philanthropy. www.franciscoblaha.info/blog/2025/10...

The Canberra Times seems to be discouraging plastic grass beloved of the neat team. The neat team would be horrified at the thought of a meadow. Carefully selected native grasses and flowering herbs might be a half way house. Have a paddock not a lawn www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Love him or not George Monbiot does think. “In seeking to address our great predicaments, we should be, as much as is humanly possible, open-minded, open-hearted, receptive to evidence, argument and persuasion.”

If you have kindergarteners this Wainwright children’s prize shortlisted book Flower Block, Lanisha Butterfield (author), Hoang Giang (illustrator) is a good read on the power of gardens wainwrightprize.com/shortlisted/...

A good news story to start the week

Can I just say that this is a beautiful and thrilling public example of Black community care? One member of the community has experienced a carceral lockout and the entire architecture is being reoriented to bring him home. 👏🏽👏🏽

Third attack on a culturally significant site within the North East over the past six months, with another tree destroyed by fire in the Northern Beaches in April and the vandalism at Paradise Falls in the King Valley in May www.farmernews.com.au/news-news/lo...

There's a network of campsites called Camping With Custodians across the north of Western Australia. Staying on Country with its traditional custodians, observing first hand some of the oldest cultures in the world. Today, at the gorgeous Lombadina community, it's been an eventful day. 🧵

Hanging onto every bit of good news The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing. This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better. lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

Australian orchids suffer rapid pollination decline since the 1970s, study suggests www.abc.net.au/news/science...

As of 7:33 this morning, Diamond and Gimbir have a clutch of three. 🥚🥚🥚 #OrangeNSW #PeregrineFalcons www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv2R...

This exclusive @therevelator.org excerpt from ecologist Kevin Van Tighem's new memoir broke me down and built me back up again: therevelator.org/understory-e...

Her parents discovered radioactivity. She made it useful. Irène Joliot-Curie’s breakthrough in artificial radioactivity laid the foundation for cancer therapies and nuclear medicine used around the world today.

A lovely story about Dr Jane Goodall's career & legacy, from Rachel Fieldhouse & Mohana Basu, in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41.... Includes some comments from me about how researchers _can also_ be advocates and science communicators, and still be taken seriously (I hope)! Vale, Jane.

Wild dogs dressed for the Lilac Festival taking over the streets of Goulburn

The wildlife enjoying the view from a wedding. The whales came past too.

'Hunting'

inside.org.au/are-we-count... Terrific review of a book with an important focus: what we count is what we notice. Any conservation practitioner knows this. But it's things we don't notice that make habitat work. Both *noticing* & counting matter. The Economy (or $) is no proxy for Society or Life.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... Interesting work improving the environment and food production. This group has been active for a very long time. Well deserved recognition

A must read thread!

www.instagram.com/reel/DOlBmZf... Some people said they needed good news today. Hope you can find CSIROs opening message for spring. You only need to befriend sone magpies and they tell their mates you are ok, no swooping.

Bad news for Oregon ash. I expect that conservation ranking will change soon. 🔗 explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMEN... 🌎 🪲 🪳

theconversation.com/deadlier-tha... Invasive pests and diseases keep emerging and spreading with large economic, social and environmental consequences