In a controversial move, Australia will become the world’s first country to allow the drugs psilocybin and MDMA to be prescribed by doctors to treat psychiatric conditions including depression and post-traumatic stress disorder....
The Australian Conservation Foundation has described the Albanese government’s approval of an extension - through to 2073 - for the Gregory Crinum metallurgical coal mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin as reckless and inappropriate....
Bamboo has a few downsides, but environmentally speaking, it could change the game for sustainability in buildings. But why hasn’t a large-scale bamboo industry been considered for Australia?...
The planet’s wealthiest people are putting Earth on a countdown to extinction. Wealth inequality is a global crisis and taxing the super-rich is a pathway to saving the planet from environmental catastrophe, writes Robert Gordon....
In the middle of the southern Queensland bush, a man in a high-vis orange shirt looks starkly out of place as he slowly pushes a strange four-wheeled machine across the uneven, scrubby landscape....
After the photo of the “Single-rider” tree trunk being trucked out of Tasmania’s Florentine Valley forest gained worldwide notoriety, I took a walk in the forest, guided by the Wilderness Society’s Alice Hardinge....
When farmer Pao Ling Tsai set a trap to catch the predator that had been killing his chooks, he expected he would catch a feral cat or fox. “I’ve given the video to National Parks and Wildlife to see what animal took the food, but I think it was another quoll or quolls.”...
A report commissioned by the NSW government and written by former coal lobbyist Cameron O’Reilly is recommending that the NSW government spend hundreds of millions of dollars per year to extend the life of Eraring coal-fired power station beyond its current lifespan....
As Greenwood expresses, many First Nations peoples in Australia feel an intimate and deeply profound, seemingly genetic connection, to their ancestral lands, often simply called “Country.”...
Our research compared a “Biosolar” green roof - one that combines a solar system with a green roof - and a comparable conventional roof with an equivalent solar system....
Climate denial has always been cretinous, deadly and irresponsible, but today, right here, right now, it requires Morrisonian levels of cognitive dissonance, a toddler’s inability to link cause and effect, a rotten sold soul, and an unwillingness to look outside the window and believe your own stupid fucking face....
Researchers discovered the land-based feedback loops with the relatively new technique of causality analysis, a statistical technique that can help determine if one factor is directly responsible for another happening...
The suffocation of up to 30 million fish in western NSW has been described by a scientist as a “canary in the coal mine” for a sick river environment....
Parts of the sea floor near Australia’s Casey research station are as polluted as the harbour in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, according to a study published in PLOS One in August1....
Australia to prescribe MDMA and psilocybin for PTSD and depression in world first (www.nature.com)
In a controversial move, Australia will become the world’s first country to allow the drugs psilocybin and MDMA to be prescribed by doctors to treat psychiatric conditions including depression and post-traumatic stress disorder....
Coal mine extension to 2073 is reckless in the era of global boiling (www.acf.org.au)
The Australian Conservation Foundation has described the Albanese government’s approval of an extension - through to 2073 - for the Gregory Crinum metallurgical coal mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin as reckless and inappropriate....
Antarctic sea ice levels dive in 'five-sigma event', as experts flag worsening consequences for planet (www.abc.net.au)
we’d expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 million years....
Bamboo – why isn't it our biggest building material? (thefifthestate.com.au)
Bamboo has a few downsides, but environmentally speaking, it could change the game for sustainability in buildings. But why hasn’t a large-scale bamboo industry been considered for Australia?...
The super-rich are getting away with murder (independentaustralia.net)
The planet’s wealthiest people are putting Earth on a countdown to extinction. Wealth inequality is a global crisis and taxing the super-rich is a pathway to saving the planet from environmental catastrophe, writes Robert Gordon....
With just 315 northern hairy-nosed wombats left, conservationists are looking to map their underground homes (www.abc.net.au)
In the middle of the southern Queensland bush, a man in a high-vis orange shirt looks starkly out of place as he slowly pushes a strange four-wheeled machine across the uneven, scrubby landscape....
Indigenous rangers are burning the desert the right way – to stop the wrong kind of intense fires from raging (theconversation.com)
When the dry times come again, plants and grasses dry out and become potential fuel for massive desert fires....
'Somebody could go to jail for it': $10k reward offered after 265 trees destroyed in Sydney waterfront reserve (www.abc.net.au)
A mayor on Sydney’s North Shore says she wants the person responsible for illegally destroying hundreds of trees jailed....
The massacre of Tasmania’s forests could be stopped at any time. Where are Australia’s leaders? | Bob Brown (www.theguardian.com)
After the photo of the “Single-rider” tree trunk being trucked out of Tasmania’s Florentine Valley forest gained worldwide notoriety, I took a walk in the forest, guided by the Wilderness Society’s Alice Hardinge....
A farmer set a trap to catch whatever was killing his chooks. He caught a quoll extinct in SA for 130 years (www.abc.net.au)
When farmer Pao Ling Tsai set a trap to catch the predator that had been killing his chooks, he expected he would catch a feral cat or fox. “I’ve given the video to National Parks and Wildlife to see what animal took the food, but I think it was another quoll or quolls.”...
Experts say radical shift needed in our relationship with the environment (www.cdu.edu.au)
A radical shift in our relationship with the environment is needed and it is time we intervene in the extinction crisis, experts say....
Evidence the oral stories of Australia's First Nations might be 10,000 years old (phys.org)
Modern estimates put the last time the North Wellesley Islands were connected to the mainland to at least 10,000 years ago....
NSW will fail to meet already weak climate targets if the decision to subsidise Australia’s biggest coal plant goes ahead. (www.nature.org.au)
A report commissioned by the NSW government and written by former coal lobbyist Cameron O’Reilly is recommending that the NSW government spend hundreds of millions of dollars per year to extend the life of Eraring coal-fired power station beyond its current lifespan....
I've spent 40 years studying Antarctica. The frozen continent has never needed our help more (theconversation.com)
I’ve spent 40 years in Antarctic and subantarctic research....
Successfully managing forests must include stewarding the hidden life belowground (theconversation.com)
Harvesting trees severs the critical flow of resources belowground, directly reducing the abundance and diversity of soil life....
What does land mean to Australia’s Indigenous groups fighting logging? (news.mongabay.com)
As Greenwood expresses, many First Nations peoples in Australia feel an intimate and deeply profound, seemingly genetic connection, to their ancestral lands, often simply called “Country.”...
A green roof or rooftop solar? You can combine them in a biosolar roof, boosting both biodiversity and power output (theconversation.com)
Our research compared a “Biosolar” green roof - one that combines a solar system with a green roof - and a comparable conventional roof with an equivalent solar system....
Feather boas lure feral cats, study finds (www.australiangeographic.com.au)
Just like their domesticated counterparts, it turns out feral cats can’t resist playing with a dangling feather boa....
During Earth’s hottest year, Murdoch’s climate denial is un-f#!+ing-hinged (theshot.net.au)
Climate denial has always been cretinous, deadly and irresponsible, but today, right here, right now, it requires Morrisonian levels of cognitive dissonance, a toddler’s inability to link cause and effect, a rotten sold soul, and an unwillingness to look outside the window and believe your own stupid fucking face....
WA banishes loggers from old growth native forests (thenewdaily.com.au)
Western Australia has joined Victoria in banning commercial logging of native forests from next year....
Rapid shifts from drought to downpour occurring more often: Study (phys.org)
Researchers discovered the land-based feedback loops with the relatively new technique of causality analysis, a statistical technique that can help determine if one factor is directly responsible for another happening...
Tens of millions of fish ran out of air in a major NSW river. A scientist says that is just the start of its problems (www.abc.net.au)
The suffocation of up to 30 million fish in western NSW has been described by a scientist as a “canary in the coal mine” for a sick river environment....
Australia is killing climate protest. Where’s the solidarity? (ketanjoshi.co)
Crosspost....
Antarctic research stations have polluted a pristine wilderness (www.nature.com)
Parts of the sea floor near Australia’s Casey research station are as polluted as the harbour in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, according to a study published in PLOS One in August1....
Threats mounting for the last of Sydney’s healthy koala population (www.smh.com.au)
Koala crossings have not been built and there are no plans to build them soon, risking the safety of the koala population....