Post of the Day
This isn’t extinction, it’s extermination: the people killing nature know what they’re doing
Jeff Sparrow
The climate strike must be a beginning and not an end. Warming won’t be stopped by symbolism
Today’s Celebration
Independence Day – Armenia
Independence Day – Belize
Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day – Ghana
Independence Day – Malta
Arbor Day – Brazil
National Cleanup Day – USA
Von Steuben Day – USA
Commemoration of the Declaration of Martial Law – Philippines
National Volunteer Day – Ghana
Battle of Kulikovo Day – Russia
Nativity of the Theotokos – Eastern Christianity
More about Sep 21
Climate Change
Hundreds of thousands of students across the world strike over climate
Students and their supporters have turned out across the world, including in Australia, to demand governments act against climate change ahead of a UN summit.
German coalition agrees to 50 billion euro climate package
Germany’s ruling coalition has agreed on a a major package of measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Global climate strike: Greta Thunberg and school students lead climate crisis protest – live updates
Millions of people from Sydney to Manila, Dhaka to London and New York are marching for urgent action on climate breakdown
Greta Thunberg: face of the global climate strikes – in pictures
The huge influence of the Swedish schoolgirl who first began the Friday’s for Future strikes in 2018 is evident across this week’s global protests
‘Enough is enough’: biggest-ever climate protest sweeps UK
From babies to bagpipers, hundreds of thousands filled the streets in more than 200 rallies
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
This report, prepared by the world’s largest humanitarian network, warns that the number of people needing humanitarian assistance every year as a result of climate-related disasters could double by 2050. It suggests that this rising human toll will come with a huge financial price tag, with climate-related humanitarian costs ballooning to US$20 billion per year by 2030.
This isn’t extinction, it’s extermination: the people killing nature know what they’re doing
Jeff Sparrow
The climate strike must be a beginning and not an end. Warming won’t be stopped by symbolism
Hot air, hype and burning money [$]
Bjorn Lomborg
Greta Thunberg exposes the vacuous hypocrisy of the green movement. Enough is enough.
National
Hundreds of thousands of Australians strike to protest climate inaction
The Global Strike 4 Climate protests took place across Australia on Friday.
‘Changing the world’ to worried about the future: What climate strikers said
Australian students had a very clear message for the Morrison government on Friday.
Climate strike: This is a 97-year-old World War II veteran’s message to Scott Morrison
Bill Ryan is a 97-year-old WWII veteran. And he has a message for the government on climate change: ‘Listen to the people’.
Signs of the times: A generation’s call to action on climate
‘Our house is on fire’. ‘Act now or swim L8R’. Students come up with ingenious placards to underline their fear for the planet’s future.
Australia’s climate protesters get creative with their signs
Australian students have taken a creative approach to the climate crisis.
Australians stand up for climate change action – in pictures
Children take time off school and workers down tools to take part in the global climate strike
‘We are not brainwashed kids’ [$]
Student climate change protesters say they’re not naive and have added a fresh demand to prove it.
Australian farmers call on Scott Morrison to return focus to drought
Farmers have taken to social media to call on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to turn his attention to drought amid calls for the government’s drought reports to be made public.
Can Germany’s exit from coal provide a blueprint for Australia?
A threat to close the Yallourn coal-fired power station earlier than planned has some asking whether Australia should look to Germany as a model for transition.
How the climate crisis will affect you – interactive map
Our interactive guide uses scientific modelling to show the impact the climate crisis will have on different parts of Australia
Labor’s climate policies are ‘unshakeable’ despite election loss, Mark Butler says
Shadow climate minister says he believes Scott Morrison may shift on issue during the coming term
Protest pupils admit they’re clueless on climate [$]
Thousands of children walked out of schools across Australia yesterday to protest climate change — but many admitted that they had little understanding of the issue.
When our planet is under attack we have to stand up and fight back
Luke Buckmaster
What is crazier: dancing on a bridge to build political will for action on climate change, or continuing as if nothing is wrong?
The world is burning, and all Australia has is a big stick
Sophie Vorrath
As tens of thousands of people – the vast majority of them striking school children – gather around Australia to call for stronger government action on climate change, where were our top politicians?
Dear quiet Australians, let’s get loud
Lyn Bender
Scott Morrison’s inaction on the climate change emergency is only one of many things we should be vocally against.
Charles Essery
Preliminary warmup rally calls of ‘Or should we become climate rebels?’ from ‘gurus’, such as Tim Flannery this week, do not bode well.
How science withstands political attacks [$]
Chris Woods
Despite years of attacks by Coalition governments, Australian scientists still manage to do their jobs. This is how.
Striking is the only moral option [$]
Guy Rundle
Make your choice: it’s either total abandon, or commitment to collective action. There is now no middle space to hide in.
Climate strike is a call for urgent action
SMH editorial
Children were expressing their concerns about a threat to their future which is confirmed by objective science.
Protesters and practical solutions are a world apart [$]
Australian editorial
The disconnect is extraordinary. As one reader posted yesterday, many young climate change warriors who skipped school on Friday to demand no new coal, oil or gas projects and 100 per cent renewable energy in 11 years are “driven to school in gas-guzzling 4WDs and sit at home ordering Uber Eats with loads of plastic packaging”. Most would have no idea about the cost to taxpayers of funding what they call “a just transition and job creation for all fossil-fuel workers and communities”.
Victoria
More than 100,000 protesters descend on city to demand climate action
Almost 300,000 people marched in cities across Australia for the coordinated rallies, but Melbourne hosted the largest turnout.
Climate protest bigger than the Grand Final [$]
Organisers claim 150,000 protesters took to the streets in a student-led climate strike that brought Melbourne’s CBD to a halt on Friday.
‘A lot of damage’: Inside the fight to keep the Otways pig-free
Conservationists are struggling in the fight against many introduced species in the Otways, but they hope a new program will limit the number of feral pigs before they cause too much damage.
Climber says graffiti the real threat to sacred sites [$]
After the Victorian government locked out rock climbers from 500sq km of the Grampians National Park over claims of damage to sacred sites, a local man says graffiti vandals are the real threat.
New South Wales
We will never back down’: 80,000 strike in Sydney over climate change
Tens of thousands of school students called on older generations to “clean up their mess” as they demanded stronger climate action at mass protests across the country.
Remote Darling River town expected to run out of raw water within days
A council in far west New South Wales has started trucking water to the remote Darling River town of Pooncarie, which is expected to run out of raw water within days.
The Future of Sydney: Greening city more than just sustainability
The City of Sydney is re-imagining the future for urban living.
North Shore greenies skittle mine jobs 250km away [$]
Green activists from Sydney’s wealthy north shore helped to skittle the Bylong Valley coal mine hundreds of kilometres away — and kill 1100 desperately needed jobs in central NSW.
ACT
As climate change bites, Canberra’s ornithologists rally to save the rare Superb parrot
In Canberra’s north, ropes are being coiled, carabiners tightened and harnesses checked, all in the name of encouraging parrots to make a little whoopee.
Federal government left playing catch-up on climate change
Ebony Bennett
There’s a certain delicious irony to the fact Parliament House will soon be powered by 100 per cent renewable electricity.
Queensland
Brisbane residents young and old fill the streets for climate strike
More than 30,000 people were estimated to join the Global Strike 4 Climate Action in Brisbane on Friday afternoon.
Adani question that left protesters stumped [$]
Thousands of students turned out to protest climate change at rallies across Queensland yesterday, despite many admitting they had little understanding of the key issues.
‘Can’t kiss them and throw them back’: Qld removes some shark controls
Shark protection has been removed from 27 beaches following a court ruling.
‘Do you really need a 10-year-old to show you how?’ Parker’s poem on the climate crisis – video
Climate striker Parker recited a poem with a powerful message on climate change at the global climate strike in Brisbane, Australia, on Friday.
Great Barrier Reef inquiry doesn’t seem like it has much to do with science [$]
The Coalition has launched another investigation into conditions on the Great Barrier Reef. But is it really about the science, or just a chance to attack Queensland’s Labor government?
Council’s koala land deal slammed [$]
Brisbane City Council stands accused of using a Bushland Acquisition program for political gain.
South Australia
Thousands rally in CBD for climate change action [$]
Protest Up to 10,000 people have marched down North Tce to demand action on climate change, stunning organisers of the rally — as hundreds of thousands protest across Australia.
Greens warn farmers could be left holding GM seed next season [$]
Farmers could be delayed in accessing the use of genetically-modified crops next season.
KI groups splintered on timber port plan [$]
Mooted changes to a planned timber export port on Kangaroo Island don’t go far enough, and it’s in the wrong place anyway, opponents say.
Tasmania
Thousands of people attend Launceston Strike 4 Climate
Thousands of people, young and old, filled Launceston’s Civic Square on Friday in an attempt to have their voices heard with cheers, speeches, and powerful placards.
Hobart School Strike 4 Climate ‘bigger than Franklin dam protest’ says Bob Brown
A student-led strike calling for greater action on climate change held in Hobart on Friday was ‘bigger than the Franklin dam protest’, said former Australian Greens leader Bob Brown.
Conservative politicians critical of school children over climate strike
Tasmanian conservative Liberal Party politicians say Launceston school children are being “manipulated”, deny the climate strike movement is grassroots and claim the students’ demands would result in another “carbon tax”.
Examiner editorial
There is often a stereotype thrown around about young people – they are apathetic.
Western Australia
How locals are taking back the bush from a beautiful, but deadly invader
Arum lilies may be visually spectacular, but for more than 100 years they have been been suffocating the natural bush and backyards in the South West corner of WA.
Climate more than a sore point for threatened sawfish [$]
In the northern rivers of Australia lives a saw-wielding monster that can grow into an adult 6m long from saw tip to powerful tail.
Sustainability
How do you take care of your dog and the environment?
Dogs enrich our lives, but pet ownership has an impact on the planet. Here’s how to ease the environmental burden of your furry friend in what you feed them, where you walk them and how they interact with native animals and their habitats.
Three Mile Island nuclear power plant’s shutdown is imminent
The shutdown of Three Mile Island, site of the United States’ worst commercial nuclear power accident, is imminent.
Fukushima nuclear disaster trial ends with acquittals of 3 executives
The verdict makes it likely that no one will be held criminally responsible for the 2011 meltdown in Japan, which caused damage that could linger for generations.
Climate explained: why don’t we have electric aircraft?
Dries Verstraete
Research into low-carbon planes is underway, but we won’t see electric long-haul flights any time soon.
Greta Thunberg made me rethink my air travel
Amelia Lester
As a travel writer, am I just as bad as fossil-fuel executives and climate change-denying politicians?
Prelovery is cheap, green, non-toxic and on the way back
Elizabeth Farrelly
The relentless pursuit of the new may be abating in favour of other long-forgotten tastes.
Nature Conservation
How Brazil’s army wants to “occupy” the Amazon
Jair Bolsonaro and Brazil’s army are reviving an old dream of the dictatorship to bring industry, mining, and settlers to the Amazon.
Biodiversity touches every aspect of our lives – so why has its loss been ignored?
Robert Watson
From our environment to our economies, our security to our societies, biodiversity is vital. But preserving it will require transformative change
We’re losing birds at an alarming rate. We can do something about it
Michael Parr
In the past 50 years, North America has lost 3 billion birds. Luckily, we know how to reverse the decline.
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