How deftly they buried Australia's emissions data. @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social FOIs illuminate the govt's fossil fuels romance #auspol #climate michaelwest.com.au/someone-got-...

Important piece by @petrastock.bsky.social. There has not been enough focus on the impact of the bushfires on wildlife. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hospital presentations climb after days of extreme heat in SA. #heatwave #climatechange www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

First #ICYMI for 2026 www.croakey.org/icymi-one-ye... HT: @tomfitton.bsky.social @firstnationscen.bsky.social @news-flows-ir.bsky.social @barnsgreg.bsky.social @ausconservation.bsky.social @docsenvaus.bsky.social @mikedaube.bsky.social @lruggiero.bsky.social @heartfoundationau.bsky.social

And at 9am it’s already 39 degrees.

Last night, the city of Adelaide had its hottest night on record, with temperatures falling to just 34.1°C before 7am local time. #heatwave #climatechange www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

As extreme heat grips much of the nation and bushfires continue to pose threats to life and land, Australian Conservation Foundation CEO Adam Bandt has made a direct plea to his former colleagues in Parliament House. #auspol #heatwave #climatechange www.acf.org.au/news/bandts-...

Worst heatwave in decades sending temperatures close to 50°C across inland SE Australia. #heatwave #climatechange www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Cycling race sponsored by one of Australia's biggest carbon polluters has to modify event due to extreme heat. #heatwave #climatechange www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

ACF’s media adviser @joshmeadows.bsky.social accompanied Jim Billings on his return to Upton Hill, east of Avenel in Victoria, for the first time since a bushfire destroyed his home. Pics by Tom Kinsman. #bushfires #climate #nature #community www.acf.org.au/news/jim-bil...

The intense heatwave in south-eastern Australia in early January was made five times more likely by human-caused climate change, a new international analysis has found. #heatwave #climatechange www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

At least five days of temperatures above 40°C forecast for parts of inland South Australia, Victoria and NSW. #heatwave #climatechange @petrastock.bsky.social @benitakolovos.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

South-east states are predicted to bake through a prolonged severe heatwave from Saturday onwards, which has the potential to break all-time temperature records and fuel another round of dangerous bushfires.

Between them, nine heads of state have the ability to launch more than 12,500 nuclear weapons, threatening all life on this precious planet. The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is the circuit breaker to this dangerous deadlock. @ican-australia.bsky.social

ACF’s media adviser @joshmeadows.bsky.social accompanied Jim Billings on his return to Upton Hill, east of Avenel in Victoria, for the first time since a bushfire destroyed his home. Pics by Tom Kinsman. #bushfires #climate #nature #community www.acf.org.au/news/jim-bil...

The Lower Murray ecosystem is under such dire threat of collapse that it has been classified as critically endangered. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

"Harcourt fires show need for disaster levy Those responsible for the climate crisis must be made to pay for the mess they have made." Alex Kelly #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Listen back to our CEO Adam Bandt's interview on RN Breakfast this morning. #habitat #nature #auspol www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Well said, Ian Lowe, climate scientist at Griffith University and former ACF President: “an observer from another galaxy would say that we know what’s causing climate change, but we’re not doing anything about it as a global civilisation.” www.smh.com.au/environment/...

The night parrot topped the list of federally listed species that had habitat approved for clearing by the federal government in 2025. #auspol #nature au.news.yahoo.com/australias-e...

The Pilbara region of Western Australia is home for five of the animals worst affected by habitat destruction in 2025: the northern quoll, night parrot, ghost bat, Pilbara leaf-nosed bat and Pilbara olive python. #auspol #nature www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The federal government gave the green light to more than 57,000 hectares of threatened species habitat destruction last year, making it the worst 12-month period in 15 years. #auspol #nature www.acf.org.au/news/defores...

Riders say time is up for fossil fuel sponsorship of the heat-affected Tour Down Under. #DumpSantos www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

About 40% of Australian women without kids say they are hesitant to have children because of climate change. @regedahmad.bsky.social and @donnadlu.bsky.social discuss the anxiety – shared by many – about starting a family as global temperatures rise. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Victoria’s bushfires have torched almost as much land as the Black Saturday disaster, prompting grave fears for threatened species. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

The introduction of a gas reservation scheme must not be used as an excuse to develop gas fields in NSW’s Narrabri and the Beetaloo Basin in the NT. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"Australia does not have a gas supply problem, it has a gas export problem... It will be important that a reservation scheme redirects gas from existing export projects to the domestic market, not facilitates new climate-heating gas projects." #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Investors owning $9.74bn of shares in Australia’s largest agribusiness bank have backed a resolution calling on NAB to disclose deforestation linked to its lending. @six-invest.bsky.social www.acf.org.au/news/nab-sha...

Overseas pension funds managing hundreds of billions of dollars have thrown their support behind shareholder resolutions from environment groups pushing for changes at Westpac and NAB annual meetings this week. www.theage.com.au/business/ban...

On this day in 2017 ICAN was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for our efforts to ban nuclear weapons. Setsuko Thurlow’s message remains clear: “Our light now is the ban treaty.” We keep pushing for a safer world, free from the threat of nuclear war. #TPNW #NuclearBan

Meanwhile, the climate-heating gas industry keeps expanding... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

"Look, we have a very unstable climate now... a fire situation can go from zero to 100 in hours... when you have dry vegetation, and that can even be in winter, that you can have these very dangerous fires. And so we're just living in a very dangerous fire world now." www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Clear-eyed reflections from Paul Brown, the UK Guardian’s environment correspondent from 1989 until 2005. Worth a read. #environment #nature #climate #nuclear www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For the first time, Australia’s forests will be covered by national nature protection laws, with legislation going to the Senate today. #auspol www.acf.org.au/news/new-law...

ACF’s CEO Kelly O’Shanassy says the govt should ‘negotiate with parties that want to protect nature’ and a deal with the coalition would weaken ‘already bad legislation’. #auspol www.perthnow.com.au/news/politic...

How to fix nature laws: ACF advice on amendments in this critical week for nature in Parliament. #auspol www.acf.org.au/news/how-to-...

Environment laws must “actually protect nature” says David Pocock. 👏 #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia signs declaration to transition from fossil fuels but fails to show leadership when it counts in Belem. #COP30 #auspol www.acf.org.au/news/austral...

Major environment groups urge government MPs to improve nature bills. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Missed opportunity for Australia and the Pacific. #COP31 #COP30 #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

“We’re disappointed Prime Minister Albanese didn’t pull out all the stops necessary to maximise Australia’s chances of getting the COP. We think that it was a mistake that he didn’t attend the leaders’ meeting.” #COP30 #COP31 #auspol reneweconomy.com.au/australia-fa...

ACF media release: COP31 in Türkiye a missed opportunity for Australia and the Pacific. #COP30 #COP31 #auspol www.acf.org.au/news/cop31-i...

A fresh survey of eight sites along WA's Ningaloo Reef reveals more than 60% of corals have died. 😞 #climateactionnow www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Calculating forest cover as a net figure, as Australia does, is problematic. Research shows young forests do not store as much carbon or have the same wildlife benefits as established forests that are being destroyed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“For Australia to continue to rely on fossil fuel exports in the medium to long term is a risky strategy.” #auspol #COP30 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, filed an application on Friday to intervene in three Federal Court challenges over the controversial extension to Woodside's North West Shelf gas project. #auspol #COP30 au.news.yahoo.com/australia-el...

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment has applied to make submissions in ACF’s legal challenges to the extension of the NW Shelf gas project. www.acf.org.au/news/un-spec...

An interesting observation from @ausconservation.bsky.social’s CEO on whether a regulator OR a politician should be the ultimate environmental approval decision maker - “it’s much harder to make a donation to a regulator than it is to make a donation to a politician”. #environment #auspol

"The bills as they are currently presented are inadequate to protect nature." ACF, Greenpeace and WWF giving evidence to the Senate committee now. #auspol #EPBC www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8ey...

"I hate the RFA exemption. It shouldn't be there." Prof Graeme Samuel to Senate inquiry. #auspol #EPBC Watch live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8ey...