Though often seen as a clean-energy success story, NZ is lagging other countries that are reaching 100 percent renewable power. Jamie Morton reports.

Analysis of vegetation clearing in New South Wales 2010 - 2023: Implications for biodiversity. Public vegetation clearing data in NSW indicates that almost 700,000 hectares of native vegetation were cleared between 2010 and 2023. wentworthgroup.org/2026/02/anal...

Patagonian wildfires show how denying climate change & pushing environmental destruction make the reality of climate change much worse. Threatening the destruction of trees that have been alive when the bronze age collapsed. @wwattribution.bsky.social www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

Once extinct in NSW, the chuditch or western quoll is now breeding in the wild thanks to a conservation program. The animals were released into an area, the size of 11,000 football fields, within the Sturt National Park in 2024. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Are you a community ecologist interested in fire ecology? Come join our group! Postdoc position for project FEVER, that aims to understand how fire affects biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and biogeochemical cycles in Mediterranean forests @umramap.bsky.social.

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You’re welcome. There’s also a tool in here so you can search the files yourself .. easier than the DOJ site which is clunky as, and I’ve stripped out the duplicates/irrelevancies

Never forget Epstein’s little helpers – the powerful men who knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway Marina Hyde nails it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wiminyji in the Western Desert: Martu knowledge reveals historical declines of northern quolls in arid Australia by Muuki Taylor @harryymoore.bsky.social @judydunlop.bsky.social et al. connectsci.au/wr/article/5...

A Typology of Australian Terrestrial Bird Communities @martinemaron.bsky.social et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I've been up in the North Canterbury mountains this week, helping to teach our third-year undergraduate field research course at #LincolnUniversityNZ. It was great fun, as always, helping students to carry out their first ecology research projects. I'm collapsed […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

Some NZ journalists are still writing about increasing storms but not providing any context: ‘as our climate changes’ I’d say it’s just an omission were it not for a comment by a radio panelist last week that she’d never heard a reported connection between more extreme storm events & climate change

Thinking of all the academic (and other) women in Aotearoa feeling triggered by the news about a certain UoA prof tonight. Whether you have a personal connection to this one or have similar experiences, I hope you have good support. Reach out if you want to talk.

Are green firebreaks a useful fire management tool under climate change in southeastern Australia? TLDR: yes, in many scenarios, especially when used in conjunction with other fire mitigation measures by @ericamarshall.bsky.social @trentpenman.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Send to your people who live in #bushfires zones. Get them to put good fences up. A colorbond fence will stop ember attacks at ground level. Provides a safe haven to fight fire to save your home. research.csiro.au/bushfire/lan...

Australian summers to experience more 50C days as heatwaves intensify, experts say www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

New research - Including carbon emissions from permafrost thaw and fires reduces the remaining carbon budget for limiting warming to 1.5C by 25% #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org www.nature.com/articles/s43...

By cancelling the Climate Emergency Response Fund, the government was telling us there was nothing to see here. The past week has shown they could not have been more wrong. We need a government that takes climate change seriously because it's only going to get worse. #nzpol

From growth potential to drought survival: a trait- and time-based framework for plant water economics across vascular species Volaire et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

CAMERON PARK, CALIFORNIA: “A major home developer is rethinking how communities are built in wildfire-prone areas and the future is taking shape in El Dorado County.” www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/n... - @cbsnews.com (Sacramento) #CAFire #California #CameronPark #ElDoradoCounty #Wildfires

Let’s keep learning together. Positive ocean news: - Meet the Risso’s dolphin, spotted yesterday off Port Macquarie by @jodie_lowe88 - Where is that white whale? - keep a lookout for summer Bryde’s whales in Aussie waters. #scicom #whale #marinebiologist #australia #dolphin

Climate change eclipses La Niña cooling in Australia to drive extreme heatwave and heightened fire risk www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

Hugely grateful that folks like Tim are taking the time to share incredibly affirming comments about our book! We really hoped it would be interesting, useful, and readable, too. Truly. That was our throughline while writing.

Aurora australis just south of Lincoln tonight

Wild Sydney Harbour is designed to connect community with its blue backyard. We continue to learn more together about sharks and the marine environment. Continued science is essential to help us be better informed. #sharksmart #shark #manly #sydney #wildysydneyharbour

Very disappointed that this was even suggested, given the mountain of evidence that suggests culls don't do anything for shark bite risk. Also ignores we've been culling sharks for 70+ years through the shark control programs in NSW and QLD...

Proposing targetted culls of sharks is a nonsense & demonstrates Dr Adam Smith is ignorant about shark life history, ecology & behaviour, & changing the statistical probability of exceedingly rare events. Sharks behave nothing like kangaroos, koalas & starfish. au.news.yahoo.com/calls-grow-f...

Sad news

Massive update to the Global Wood Density Database out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer. What an amazing community resource! 🧪🍁🌐 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Plant traits matter in fire ecology! "On average, deciduous forests lose less than half as much carbon to wildfire combustion as conifer forests per unit burned area" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🎬 New animation out! Nature-based Solutions to Extreme Wildfires. This video presents a roadmap to integrate #NatureBasedSolutions into wildfire governance. 📄 Open-access paper: lnkd.in/eEd7mqj7 ▶️ youtu.be/6yTn5olrZ5o

Excellent explanation of a very concerning wildfire.

I haven’t been actively maintaining this starter pack, but is there anyone I should add? People working on wild/bushfire research etc in the southern hemisphere: go.bsky.app/TcNyVJi

Ok, so since there's nothing coordinated anywhere, I've decided to make my own crowd-sourced list of ecology and conservation conferences here. If you know of a conference that fits, please add it to the list! Let's turn this into a useful resource for the community tinyurl.com/yb6e6mb2

We've just created an exciting new Phylogenomics Botanist role to join our vibrant team at Botanic Gardens of Sydney and help us build the NSW Plant Tree of Life! Applications close 26 Jan 2026: iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/phylogen... #botanicgardens #nswflora #nswptol #phylogenomics

The cover art is finished for my new book and I LOVE IT! This safari tour of the life in soil and what is means to us, is now available for pre-order as ebook, soft and hardcover in the UK and Commonwealth. Published in August next year (US date soon), I hope it'll entice everyone to love soil! 🧪🪱

Meet the springtails: little-known fantastic beasts that live everywhere on Earth theconversation.com/meet-the-spr... Ping @frankashwood.bsky.social

I just rewatched Lloyd Pope's amazing 8 for 35 in the U-19 Cricket World Cup, which helped roll England for 96, defending just 128 in the quarter final. It included a slip-fielding masterclass by Jason Sangha, and also dismissals of Harry Brook and Will Jacks. www.facebook.com/watch/?v=172...

This heatwave has marked a historic turning point in the Australian energy grid - we used to have blackouts as everyone turned their AC's on, with pundits telling us that 'renewables aren't the answer'. No blackouts this time, and silence from the nay-sayers. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Fire refugia in forest ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest, USA: Science and applications for conservation, adaptation, and stewardship conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢 Victoria's firefighters says the state faces the most hazardous bushfire conditions since the Black Summer six years ago. They continue to battle out of control bushfires and catastrophic fire danger warnings are in place for several areas tomorrow. The state will also be under a total fire ban.…

Where will the next megafire break out? Climate change is making it tougher to predict by @rachaelnolan.bsky.social and @trentpenman.bsky.social theconversation.com/where-will-t...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in my lab to study threatened plant species responses to drought and heat. This is part of mu recently funded DECRA fellowship.