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Climate emergency actions are needed not just promises
Nigel Howard
Labor didn’t so much win the election gaining only 32% of the primary vote – they just didn’t lose it quite as badly as the Coalition, scraping into government because they were not as reprehensible on climate and integrity.
On This Day
Eid al-Adha – Islam
Global Energy Independence Day
Martyrdom of the Bab – Baha’i
Climate Change
Pacific Islanders and environmentalists are urging Australia and other nations to back a push for better enforcement of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming.
National
This rock art has survived millennia. How will it weather the gas era?
As Australia faces a gas crisis, Indigenous communities fear their millennia-old sacred sites will be collateral damage in the rush for fresh supplies.
Rare, endangered bird at greater risk after getting frisky with the wrong species
One of Australia’s most vulnerable bird species, the black-eared miner, became endangered due to decades of agricultural land clearing, but a loss of habitat is not the only thing putting the birds at risk.
Fact check: Minister’s rising emissions claim omits effects of pandemic
Labor’s climate change minister has savaged the previous government after Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions rose last year.
Floods routine, not proof of climate armageddon [$]
Peta Credlin
The latest flood has been catastrophic for many Australians but it’s not been especially severe by historical standards. Yet, it is once again promoted as more proof of climate change.
Climate emergency actions are needed not just promises
Nigel Howard
Labor didn’t so much win the election gaining only 32% of the primary vote – they just didn’t lose it quite as badly as the Coalition, scraping into government because they were not as reprehensible on climate and integrity.
Victoria
Rebound for bird on brink of extinction
A recent survey in northern Victoria uncovered a record number of Plains-wanderers – a small, quail-like bird that lives only in eastern Australia grasslands, and represents an ancient lineage of birds that evolved in Gondwana more than 100 million years ago.
New zoo set to roar into regional Victoria [$]
A mammoth fauna park in Victoria’s north will be transformed into the state’s fourth zoo, boosting jobs and tourism in the region.
New South Wales
‘They didn’t believe me at first’: Endangered carnivore shocks conservationists
A spotted-tailed quoll has been found in a shed in the NSW Central West “doing it a little bit tough”. It is hoped it is a sign the population is stabilising in the region.
International Atomic Energy Agency acknowledges Australia’s nuclear expertise and stewardship
Australia’s significant contribution to security, safety and public health in our region and around the world were showcased today at ANSTO’s Lucas Heights campus, the home of Australia’s nuclear capabilities.
Australian species brought back from extinction in NSW after 200 years
It’s been almost two centuries since the small Mitchell’s Hopping Mouse jumped across NSW, but scientists are hoping 150 of the marsupials might be enough to restore its population.
ACT
Greens, Labor at fork in the road over Athllon Drive duplication
The Greens have called on the ACT government to scrap a long-planned $93 million project to duplicate a section of Athllon Drive and use the money on public transport and active travel instead.
Queensland
A reclassification of land on North Stradbroke Island would allow more tourist accommodation, but residents are not happy about the threat it could pose to native wildlife.
South Australia
The surprising area that’s been over-run by cars [$]
It sounds like a city problem but new Census figures reveal it is a country town that’s got more cars on the road than it can cope with.
Tasmania
Andry Sculthorpe is part of a Tasmanian Aboriginal group calling on private landowners to share information on known cultural sites on farms, and consider allowing access for knowledge sharing and reconnection.
Horrific numbers of native animals culled in Tasmania must stop
Letters
Frightening and horrific statistics were released at the recent budget estimate hearings by Primary Industries and Water Minister Jo Palmer of the amount of Tasmanian wildlife recently slaughtered, under the guise of culling, by our farmers.
Sustainability
Ross Gittins thinks capitalism can save us. Here’s why it can’t
Ted Trainer
We are racing towards the catastrophic collapse of our bio-physical and social systems, driven by the capitalist economy. Gittins illustrates the trained incapacity of the conventional economic mind to get it.
Ensuring electric vehicle jobs are good jobs
David Madland
Over the next decades, sales of electric vehicles (EVs) will likely surpass those of gas-powered cars and trucks, transforming America’s automotive industry and automotive jobs. Without effective policies in place, however, the transition to electric vehicles could reduce the quality of jobs in the auto sector.
Nature Conservation
The UN says we’re pushing more than a million species to extinction
Climate change, pollution and deforestation are pushing a million species towards extinction. Here’s what we can do to help.
Amazon reeling as Brazil’s deforestation breaks all former records
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest reached a record high for the first six months of the year, as an area five times the size of New York City was destroyed.
On Thursday, July 7, the Ninth Session of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) approved the Thematic Assessment of the Sustainable Use of Wild Species, which underscores the fundamental link between people and nature and reaffirms that people are dependent on nature.
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