“More than 34,000 dead marine animals have been logged (on beaches) – while, of course, far more have gone unobserved.” The true death toll - silent and unseen - is billions of marine animals and plants. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New research from The Australia Institute shows that 26 out of Australia’s 37 universities have financial links to fossil fuel companies.

One of three coal exporting ports - on The Best-Managed World-Heritage-listed Coral Reef in the World.

Glencore, a company that's expanding a massive coal mine in Queensland, Australia, is going to destroy a massive amount of koala habitat - and plans to buy 'koala offsets' to claim they've undone that damage www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.

Official vague statement released in May 2024. We knew by then that billions of corals were dead or dying due to extreme heat stress in Jan-March. www.theguardian.com/environment/... The Australian government stayed silent for another 14 months, until after an election & more fossil fuel permits.

Last week we learned the Great Barrier Reef has suffered some of the worst bleaching in history This week, Ningaloo, another 🇦🇺 icon is experiencing catastrophic coral loss These are national treasures. We must take strong action on climate to save them. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Concerning reports the unreleased National Climate Risk Assessment is “dire” and “diabolical”. It maps what the people & places we love stand to lose from climate change. We should know this before the govt sets our 2035 emissions target Release it now. www.afr.com/policy/energ...

The oil industry's Alliance to End Plastic Waste was created to "change the conversation – away from short-term simplistic bans of plastic," documents reveal unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...

You haven’t been paying attention if you’re surprised that Ningaloo Reef is affected (again) by climate change. “Unprecedented Mass Bleaching and Loss of Coral across 12° of Latitude in Western Australia in 2010–11”. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If the Great Barrier Reef had a voice, it would be screaming 😱 Picture shows a 500yr old bleached coral, clinging to life - off Heron island, April 2024.

Enjoyed speaking to Ethan Hamilton @ Law Society Journal about how the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change will shape Australia’s obligations to our Pacific neighbours, particularly as one of the largest exporters of fossil fuels in the world. lsj.com.au/articles/int...

The recent ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate has been cited for the first time in a climate litigation case in South Africa, challenging the approval of an oil project. thegreenconnection.org.za/wp-content/u...

Mass mortality of corals throughout the Great Barrier Reef in 2024 has been hidden from the public since late last year, with this exception - published last December: www.voanews.com/a/surveys-sh...

Law Society Journal: “The appointment of envoys might appear to the cynical as reactionary measures to public demand for action….” lsj.com.au/articles/the...

Australia: The political appointment of “Special Envoy to the Great Barrier Reef” has been quietly scrapped. And nobody actually noticed. thenightly.com.au/politics/aar...

Interesting article on mobility of early career researchers, and the barriers they face. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

″⁣Following the consideration of rigorous scientific and other advice, a proposed decision to approve the North West Shelf gas development has been made”. Of course, ‘consideration’ actually means ‘dismissal’.

True, you can feed aquarium corals with brine shrimp. But how do you feed billions of surviving wild corals in an area the size of 70 million football fields?

AFP fact check: “Pour sauver la Barrière de Corail, le monde doit rapidement réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre", appelle moi. Culling a few starfish won’t climate-proof coral reefs. factuel.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

The image of dying corals comes from Lizard Island in 2016, not 2024. Here’s a comparison of coral mortality in the northern Great Barrier Reef in 2016 and 2024.

The middle region of the Great Barrier Reef was under-sampled in 2024 surveys - only 3 reefs between Cairns and Townsville. theconversation.com/worlds-bigge...

The media (and annual reports) tend to focus on single catastrophic climate events. Yes, the 2024 coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef was terrible. But it’s the cumulative impacts of recurring disasters that matters in the longer term. www.smh.com.au/environment/...

Mike Hudema Water temperatures around Australia's Great Barrier Reef were the warmest they've been in over 400 years this year, according to new research. Scientists say the reef is facing "catastrophic damage." No time to waste. ActOnClimate

“Parts” So far, 98% of the Great Barrier Reef has experienced coral bleaching at least once in 2016, 2017, 2020’ 2022, 2024 and 2025. In 2016, 51% of corals died in the northern third of the Reef - an even bigger loss there than in 2024. www.cell.com/current-biol...

In a rosy new assessment, the Australian government reports there is currently no coral bleaching - in mid-winter. And despite all the evidence, “The Authority’s starfish Control Program…. is a demonstrated effective tool in protecting coral and supporting the health and resilience of the Reef”

Beware of computer simulations that present their results as facts instead of untested predictions. news.uq.edu.au/2025-07-crow...

Another compromised research institute in Australia, captured by the fossil fuel industry. visit.museum.wa.gov.au/learn/news-s...

In June 2024 UNESCO urged Australia “to MAKE PUBLIC the extent of coral death as soon as possible”. But there was an election in the way, and government scientists were gagged until 18 months after the 2024 die-off began.

20 years ago we concluded that "Florida's coral reefs are already halfway to ecological extinction" www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... The timing for being "proactive" - i.e. to tackle a problem BEFORE it gets out of hand - has long past. Importing corals is about as "reactive" as you could imagine.

The effects of climate change on #marine #ecosystems are increasingly negative prompting many new interventions to sustain the ocean. But, as Morrison et al. point out, #governance systems to prevent unintended consequences are “not yet in place” @profterryhughes.bsky.social‬ doi.org/10.1126/scie...

“Our findings identify a promising avenue (removing dead corals) to manage for coral resilience” Reality-Check: The spatial scale of this experiment is 0.004 hectares. Live coral cover continued to decline after removing dead skeletons. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Zucchini double-wrapped in plastic. #Woolworths

In the meantime, the Australian government is funding trials to shade the Great Barrier Reef with 800 ships shooting saltwater sprays into the sky. And the media declares it’s a ‘solution’.

Protecting existing coral reefs MUST be our priority. A message that's been voiced several times before by @profterryhughes.bsky.social and others, but one that we should not lose sight of. My short 'News&Views' piece in @natureecoevo.bsky.social Link: tinyurl.com/2jfskntd

Researchers are warning that the rapid emergence of novel ocean-based climate interventions has outstripped the capacity of governments and communities to respond appropriately. 👩‍🔬🌊🌏 Read the full story here 👉📰 bit.ly/45tSWnb

🌊 Governing novel climate interventions in rapidly changing oceans Our climate interventions are rapidly evolving, from seaweed farms to engineered coral. However, governance is lagging, and without proper oversight, we risk trading one crisis for another... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This gathering of policy makers and industry leaders will explore the Sustainable Blue Economy - ironically, illustrated here by a picture of a lifeless coral reef with no fish.

“Without robust governance, we risk repeating past mistakes—implementing ‘solutions’ that are ineffective, inequitable, or even harmful”. phys.org/news/2025-07...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Published today in Science: “The pace of new interventions is outstripping the capacity to prevent unintended consequences - because governance systems are not yet in place.” Stop the cowboys before they do even more damage!

20 straight days with 30 °C in Finland! Truly unprecedented heatwave still in full swing with maximum today about 32-33 degrees. Even the Arctic regions (e.g. Sodankylä Tähtelä) have seen three weeks above 25 °C, and may rival tomorrow their August heat records.

The members of the new ARC Advisory Committee have been announced👇 ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/news-publica... This Committee is required under the new ARC legislation, to "assist the Board to determine priorities, strategies and policies for the ARC."

“Given what we know about coal’s role in driving climate breakdown, this (claim) is wilful disinformation and meaningless sustainability waffle to protect the social licence of coal.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

'Cows just replaced the methane from wild bison' Not even close. At their peak, wild ruminants incl. bison emitted ~15 Tg CH₄/yr Today’s 4+ billion farmed ruminants emit over 100 Tg CH₄/yr That’s nearly 7x more methane. essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

A beautiful beach walk in southern Australia: But the joy quickly turns to horror when we see more and more dead animals, including dozens of freshly killed abalone. Australia’s beaches are revealing the silent devastation of marine ecosystems.

The vast majority of scientists working on the ecology of the Great Barrier Reef view “shading” as ineffective, expensive and distracting. Follow the money. www.theguardian.com/environment/....

Areas of ocean that are cooler than average are shown in BLUE.

In the 39th paragraph, a quote from me: “Humanity must not pursue dangerous distractions that do nothing to tackle the root causes of climate change, come with incalculable risk & will likely further delay climate action.” Besides, the number of corals saved by cloud brightening is precisely zero

Australia’s ongoing exports of coal across the endangered Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...