From: Maelor Himbury <M.Himbury@acfonline.org.au>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 at 8:50 am
Subject: Daily Links Sep 9
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Post of the Day
Simple steps towards a greener workplace
Md. Nafis Anowar Santo
Small everyday changes can help businesses build a greener workplace and reduce their environmental footprint.
On This Day
Ecological Observance
Thung Yai-Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuaries Day – Thailand
Climate Change
Why it’s so hard to predict a tragedy like Nepal’s glacier collapse
Melting glaciers spell disaster around the world. Protecting people will be a challenge for decades to come.
‘More toxic than car exhaust’: What’s the solution to Europe’s wildfire air pollution problem?
Tackling air pollution and climate change together could save lives and boost economies, UN reports show.
One effect of climate change: More rats, ticks and mosquitoes — and more disease
How Chicago’s public health landscape is changing as the climate heats
Too hot to learn: how climate change hurts children’s chances from birth
Akanksha Bapna
Children across Europe have returned to school after a summer of extreme heat. As the climate warms, one question is becoming harder to ignore: how can students learn when classrooms become dangerously hot?
Jason Dove Mark
How changing lightbulbs helped change the world.
National
Decision time for the future of farming in Australia
Australian agriculture is facing important decisions that will shape its productivity, profitability and sustainability towards 2050, according to a new discussion paper released by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, and the Australian Farm Institute.
Meet the Financial Review Sustainability Leaders of 2026 [$]
This year’s winners have shown not only inspiring innovation but measurable impact – both within and beyond the organisation – durability and potential.
What this year’s Sustainability Leaders tell us about the future [$]
Entrants reveal how organisations are redesigning systems, creating change that extends far beyond their own operations.
Greens seek Labor deal to bridge party rift on logging [$]
The Greens are pushing for tweaks to a controversial new plan to end logging in native forests in an attempt to resolve a major internal dispute.
New research shows who benefits most from the federal solar sharer plans
Why the climate activists have pivoted to Palestine [$]
Jonathan Chait
Left-wing activists have shifted focus from climate and race to Gaza, reflecting a recurring “woke apocalyptic” political style.
New South Wales
Decade-long experiment in outback NSW changing the landscape
Once locally extinct across outback NSW, bilbies, bandicoots and bettongs are now back and breeding. The desert’s revival has been led by a young couple who moved their lives way out west a decade ago.
Mangrove boardwalk’s safety upgrades honour Aboriginal cultural heritage
A project set to rejuvenate Newcastle’s Carrington mangrove boardwalk is set to highlight the Aboriginal cultural heritage and ecological value of the area while delivering safer, more inclusive acces…
First look at high-rise plans to add 10,000 homes to eastern suburbs [$]
The eastern suburbs skyline will be transformed with towers 34 storeys tall in draft plans to deliver swaths of new housing developments in Edgecliff and Woollahra.
Queensland
Millions of dollars promised for illegal dumping crackdown
The government is allocating millions of dollars across a slew of Queensland councils in a crackdown on illegal dumping.
How closing streets to cars might be good for Brisbane businesses [$]
Renowned urban planner Gil Penalosa says Brisbane should copy Barcelona and Paris by turning roadways into vibrant public spaces for the 2032 Games.
South Australia
‘Takes guts’: Eminent South Australians rejecting govt plans
Mike Smithson
Government control of the park lands is just starting rather than ending despite calls to “pump the brakes”.
Northern Territory
NT cattle station sells for $26m after carbon plan crashes
Benmara Station in the NT has sold for $26 million after a complicated period of ownership and failed carbon dreams.
Mining and Energy Minister Gerard Maley did not publicly disclose that his sister-in-law works for the company he and his government colleagues helped arrange a special land deal for that could see a massive data centre in the Darwin rural area built, the ABC reported Tuesday, while the Chief Minister has remained silent over the failure to publicly disclose.
‘Buffel bust’ sees volunteers clear more than 100sq/m in Alice Springs
An art exhibition opening in Alice Springs today will shine a spotlight on the native plants driven out of Central Australia by the invasive weed, buffel grass.
NT greenhouse emissions have doubled over 20 years [$]
If the Territory was a country it would be the worst emitter in the world, a three times the rate of the current biggest per capita polluter on the planet.
NT News’ Beetaloo gas coverage under fire on national stage
The NT News’ coverage of gas development in the Beetaloo Sub-basin was the focus of national scrutiny Monday night as Media Watch criticised the newspaper’s reporting as “cheerleading for gas companies and the government” that has repeatedly failed to provide the whole picture, while noting the paper takes in untold amounts of advertising money from industry and the CLP Government. All of it has raised questions over whose interests the newspaper is serving.
Western Australia
Aboriginal corporation, mining giant sign new agreement
Western Australia’s Ngarlawangga Aboriginal Corporation (NAC) and mining company Rio Tinto have signed an Interim Modernised Agreement, strengthening their partnership and delivering long-term benefit…
Stunning order: WA rangers told to work from home [$]
A union has been forced to remind a WA Aboriginal corporation that rangers cannot perform their on-country bushcraft duties from a lounge room.
Sustainability
New documents reveal what NYC knew about air toxicity after 9/11
New York City’s mayor Zohran Mamdani has released 170,000 pages of documents detailing what was known about air pollution that billowed from Ground Zero after the attacks.
New research shows turbulent flushes create toilet-generated aerosols that can transmit legionella, influenza and norovirus
You don’t have a right to safe drinking water, US court rules
A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.
‘Plastic pollution hotspots’ spawn a public health crisis across Latin America
Since 2018, when China banned the import of plastic waste, many countries in Latin America have been struggling to manage a huge increase in the amount of plastic waste imported into the region, some of them becoming “plastic pollution hotspots,” according to a recent study.
US datacenters face further backlash over wastewater pollution
From rare bacteria to ‘forever chemicals’, a series of cases of violations or alleged pollution has prompted alarm
The world is not prepared for the scale of future migration
Julian Cribb
Climate disruption, conflict, resource scarcity and political instability are driving rising migration, with much larger movements of people likely in coming decades.
Nature Conservation
‘So big and so close’: spotting endangered bears on a trip to northern Spain
Conservationists have helped Cantabrian brown bears claw their way back from the edge of extinction in the beautiful mountains of Asturias – and carefully controlled nature tourism allows visitors to see them
‘Slumping’ South Korean corals worry divers, scientists studying climate change
UNESCO-designated South Korean soft coral habitat at risk Species feared at risk from extreme weather due to El Nino
Maelor Himbury | Library Volunteer
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