The number of megafire break outs is not just applicable to Australia, globally we all now have to worry as personally I experienced the consequences in France and close to home in Britain. No longer the question is when climate change will impact us, it already is. bsky.app/profile/jhau...

Hundreds took to the water intending to be arrested at #RisingTide but police used discretion to arrest or not, and to cherry-pick which charges to lay. Investigative journalist and Knitting Nanna Wendy Bacon with her wrap of @risingtideaus.bsky.social blockade. michaelwest.com.au/rising-tide-...

Climate warming Not just rising land temperatures but very high ocean temperatures too The Torrid Zone moving south Drought, rising sea levels, toxic blooms, extreme heat, mega-fires, the heightened risk of extreme weather events We are boiling frogs who did nothing to stop this We chose this

Where will the next megafire break out? Climate change is making it tougher to predict theconversation.com/where-will-t...

AI hallucinations and the dilemma of false or misleading information www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Past works reimagined in Second Look — Legacy, the Australian Design Centre's final exhibition www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Female Powerful Owl in a Brisbane conservation area* this morning. * Incidentally, an area that the government seems very interested in developing into a "major tourist attraction" in time for the 2032 Olympic Games. Something nobody wants except developers, as far as I can tell. #brisbane #wildoz

Donald Trump poses a threat to civilization Robert Reich The moral purpose of civilized society is to prevent the stronger from attacking the weaker. The US was founded on that principle www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kids at tiny school work to save extremely rare 'flying jewel' purple copper butterfly www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Grass roots. My @smh cartoon.

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How smart home materials can shield us from extreme heat and cut energy bills all year theconversation.com/how-smart-ho...

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing theconversation.com/the-5-stages...

Jellyfish sleep like humans — even though they don’t have brains www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Israel pushes ahead with vast illegal settlement in heart of West Bank Exclusive: Tender posted for construction of 3,401 homes in settlement designed to ‘bury idea of a Palestinian state’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Echidna population count underway in Queensland amid urbanisation and climate change fears www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Yes, forest trees die of old age. But the warming climate is killing them faster theconversation.com/yes-forest-t...

‘Mad fishing’: the super-size fleet of squid catchers plundering the high seas Every year a Chinese-dominated flotilla big enough to be seen from space pillages the rich marine life on Mile 201, a largely ungoverned part of the South Atlantic off Argentina www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Worst heatwave since black summer forecast for more than half of Australia Fire danger expected to reach extreme levels in South Australia, Victoria and inland NSW this week www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Tropical Cyclone Jenna the second system to lash Cocos Keeling Islands in less than two weeks www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Vic: Watch and Act - Bushfire - Leave Now - Thologolong emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/?=&b...

As Victoria's grassland dries with warmer weather, the CFA warns of increased fire risk www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Who's fielding at deep square leg? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

The Guardian view on the US seizure of Maduro: Trump has turned the world’s superpower into a rogue state The illegal abduction of Venezuela’s president, and threat to ‘run’ his country, is a dangerous act. Its repercussions will be felt far beyond the region www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Remember when they renamed the forestry department that was meant to be disbanded sustainable forestry department and it commenced burning all the old growth forests in Vic? It was only last year.

A growing body of evidence suggests timber certification schemes aimed at minimising damage to the environment in Australia could be failing to protect forests. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

for anyone who hasn't yet listened to Marc Fennell's excellent podcast "Stuff The British Stole" (or watched the acompanying tv series): pca.st/podcast/a728...

Rufous scrub-bird DNA project aims to safeguard ancient and elusive songbird Fewer than 2,000 of the songbirds remain, with bushfire posing the main threat to their existence. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Swimming with Sharks www.sbs.com.au/news/creativ...

‘It’s time for healing’: remains of Aboriginal ancestors traded as curiosities are on their way home to country Returning the stolen bodies of Indigenous Australians is ‘the most important act of reconciliation’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A lot of food for thought about travel consumerism. What is it all for, given the environmental consequences of so much long distance travel?

Why can’t we admit to not enjoying a bad holiday? theconversation.com/why-cant-we-...

With thousands of feral horses gone, Kosciuszko’s fragile ecosystems are slowly recovering theconversation.com/with-thousan...

A current affair: how ocean currents are shifting with climate change They don’t call it the world ocean for nothing. It’s a massive, interconnected system with water moving in complicated patterns. connectsci.au/news/news-pa...

Ancient lungfish discovered in China is "missing link" to tetrapod ancestors Fossils of an ancient lungfish in China could help explain how jawed fish nearly 400 million years ago (mya) evolved into the first vertebrates to walk on land – our ancestors. connectsci.au/news/news-pa...

More and more AUKUS as a defence policy is essentially “our best way to stop being invaded is to keep bribing the USA”

“The revenue recouped by winding-up the concessions should be redirected to developing Australia’s modular housing industry, it argued….without substantial and real changes to our mindset and to policy, a whole generation is going to miss out”

Top End dams overflow as parks come to life in the wake of Cyclone Fina www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Scientists, landowners working on Tasmania's Bruny Island to help forty-spotted pardalote species www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Mystery pink slime on secluded Tasmanian beach prompts fears of potential algal bloom Environment Protection Authority says blooms are ‘natural occurrence’ as marine scientist warns it has grown ‘significantly’ in recent hours www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

(In short, no, but they will probabbly get away with it) Is there any legal justification for the US attack on Venezuela? International law experts expect Washington to claim self-defence and face little serious pushback www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Union calls for end to tax breaks that make Australian housing ‘a vehicle for hoarding wealth’ Manufacturing workers union wants capital gains tax discount to be reduced and then phased out and an effective end to negative gearing www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Our AUKUS partner showing off the shared values Richard Marles loves to talk about

200+ CONCENTRATION CAMPS There are more than 200 concentration camps operating in the United States in 2025. www.closertotheedge.net/p/200-concen...

‘I wasn’t allowed to study, but I will make sure no girl in this village hears those same words’ www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Wildlife carers warn people to watch out for puggle burrows this summer www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Fresh bone analysis makes case for earliest ‘ancestor of humankind’, but doubts remain Scientists argue ape-like Sahelanthropus tchadensis that lived in Africa 7m years ago is best contender but more fossils are needed www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Tesla loses title of bestselling EV company to BYD as sales drop www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

“Inequality is a deliberate policy choice. Despite record wealth at the top, public wealth is stagnating, even declining, & debt distress is growing,” The $2.2tn growth in net worth for the world’s wealthiest 500 individuals would have been enough to lift 3.8b ppl out of poverty. We need Change